Speaker
Dr
Anna Nierenberg
(University of California Irvine)
Description
Strong gravitational lensing, in which light is bent and distorted by massive objects, provides a powerful probe into the dark Universe. I will discuss strong gravitational lensing constraints on the abundance and mass of massive compact objects, as well as on the halo mass function and the free-streaming length of particle dark matter. I will conclude by describing how the next generation of telescopes will enable several orders of magnitude improvement in the mass sensitivity of these measurements.
Primary author
Dr
Anna Nierenberg
(University of California Irvine)
