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Quantitative Analysis of Galaxy‐Galaxy Lensing

Quantitative Analysis of Galaxy‐Galaxy Lensing

Gravitational light deflection due to mass along the line of sight will distort the images of background sources. Although an individual galaxy is not massive enough to cause a detectable lensing distortion in the background population, this effect can be measured statistically for a population of galaxies, and a first …