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Inclination Effects In Spiral Galaxy Gravitational Lensing, Ariyeh Maller, Ricardo Flores, Joel Primack
Inclination Effects In Spiral Galaxy Gravitational Lensing, Ariyeh Maller, Ricardo Flores, Joel Primack
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Spheroidal components of spiral galaxies have been considered to be the only dynamically important component in gravitational lensing studies to date. Here we point out that including the disk component can have a significant effect, which depends on the disk inclination, on a variety of lensing properties that are relevant to present studies and future surveys. As an example, we look at the multiple image system B1600+434, which was recently identified as being lensed by a spiral galaxy. We find that by including the disk component, one can understand the fairly large image separation as being caused by the inclination …