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Uncertainties in pixel-based source reconstruction for gravitationally lensed objects and applications to lensed galaxies
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Uncertainties in pixel-based source reconstruction for gravitationally lensed objects and applications to lensed galaxies
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Tagore
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Amitpal Singh
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1986-
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Amitpal Singh Tagore
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Charles
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Charles Keeton
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Andrew
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Andrew Baker
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Sellwood
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Jerry
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Jerry Sellwood
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Zamick
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Larry
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Larry Zamick
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Moustakas
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Leonidas
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Leonidas Moustakas
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2014
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2014-10
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2014
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eng
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Gravitational lens modeling of spatially resolved sources is a challenging inverse problem that can involve many observational constraints and model parameters. I present a new software package, pixsrc, that works in conjunction with the lensmodel software and builds on established pixel-based source reconstruction (PBSR) algorithms for de-lensing a source and constraining lens model parameters. Using test data, I explore statistical and systematic uncertainties associated with gridding, source regularization, interpolation errors, noise, and telescope pointing. I compare two gridding schemes in the source plane: a fully adaptive grid and an adaptive Cartesian grid. I also consider regularization schemes that minimize derivatives of the source and introduce a scheme that minimizes deviations from an analytic source profile. Careful choice of gridding and regularization can reduce "discreteness noise" in the chi^2 surface that is inherent in the pixel-based methodology. With a gridded source, errors due to interpolation need to be taken into account (especially for high S/N data). Different realizations of noise and telescope pointing lead to slightly different values for lens model parameters, and the scatter between different "observations" can be comparable to or larger than the model uncertainties themselves. The same effects create scatter in the lensing magnification at the level of a few percent for a peak S/N of 10. I then apply pixsrc to observations of lensed, high-redshift galaxies. SDSS J0901+1814, is an ultraluminous infrared galaxy at z=2.26 that is also UV-bright, and it is lensed by a foreground group of galaxies at z=0.35. I constrain the lens model using maps of CO(3-2) rotational line emission and optical imaging and apply the lens model to observations of CO(1-0), H-alpha, and [NII] line emission as well. Using the de-lensed images, I calculate properties of the source, such as the gas mass fraction and dynamical mass. Finally, I examine a serendipitously discovered pair of gravitationally lensed objects with strikingly different colors. One appears red and compact, while the other appears blue and extended. I use pixsrc to constrain the lens model using observations of the red object and present a PBSR as a first step towards understanding its properties.
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Physics and Astronomy
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Gravitational lenses
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (x, 121 p. : ill.)
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Amitpal Singh Tagore
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Tagore
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Amitpal
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Singh
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2014-10-01 04:14:53
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Amitpal Tagore
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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