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R. Benton Metcalf

Researcher at University of Bologna

Publications -  108
Citations -  3466

R. Benton Metcalf is an academic researcher from University of Bologna. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dark matter & Gravitational lens. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 86 publications receiving 2968 citations. Previous affiliations of R. Benton Metcalf include University of California, Berkeley & INAF.

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Compound Gravitational Lensing as a Probe of Dark Matter Substructure within Galaxy Halos

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use numerical simulations to quantify the effect of dark matter substructure on the distribution of magnifications and find that the magnification ratio of a typical image pair will deviate significantly from the value predicted by a smooth lensing potential if, near the Einstein radius, only a few percent of the lens surface density is contained in subhalos.
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Flux Ratios as a Probe of Dark Substructures in Quadruple-Image Gravitational Lenses

TL;DR: In this paper, the flux ratios of quadruple-image lensed quasars provided a powerful means of probing the small-scale structure of dark matter halos, and a family of smooth lens models can precisely predict certain combinations of flux ratios using only the positions of the images and the lens as inputs.
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Detecting dark matter substructure spectroscopically in strong gravitational lenses

TL;DR: In this paper, a method for searching for substructure in the haloes of gravitational lenses that produce multiple images of QSOs, such as 4-image Einstein Cross lenses, is presented.
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Detecting dark matter substructure spectroscopically in strong gravitational lenses

TL;DR: In this paper, a method for searching for substructure in the haloes of gravitational lenses that produce multiple images of quasi-stellar objects (QSOs), such as four-image Einstein Cross lenses, is presented.