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Leonidas Moustakas

Strong Lensing Constraints on Galaxy Evolution Problems
Strong gravitational lensing is emerging as an extraordinary tool for probing the internal structure of massive galaxies (and galaxy clusters), studying the nature and properties of dark matter on entire decades of mass and size scale, and potentially in providing new precise cosmographic measurements of the scale of the Universe. These applications have been helped by the large number of new lenses discovered the past very few years, particularly from the Sloan Lens ACS Survey (SLACS; Bolton, Burles, Koopmans, Treu, & Moustakas 2006, ApJ, 638, 703). This progress comes at a time when our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve over the lifetime of the Universe is still spearheaded by multiwavelength observations (e.g. Papovich, Moustakas, et al 2006, ApJ, 640, 92), though with many new and promising theoretical advances that begin to help interpret observational results. The NPP postdoctoral fellow working with me at JPL will concentrate on research on the evolution of galaxies, either through their internal structure changes, or through stellar population studies, in a combination of both strong-gravitational-lens, and many wide-field multiwavelength Surveys, including GOODS, AEGIS, and others.

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