Effects of Subhalos on Interpreting Highly Magnified Sources Near Lensing Caustics
Lingyuan Ji and Liang Dai 2025 ApJ 980 190 Taking the gravitationally lensed redshift z = 6.2 star Earendel as an example, researchers show that the presence of sub-galactic dark matter subhalos can…
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