Roulettes: a weak lensing formalism for strong lensing. I: Overview

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/16/16LT01MaRDI QIDQ2822162zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors C. Clarkson

Publication date 27 September 2016

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.04698

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational lensingstrong lensingweak lensing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05)

Abstract: We present a new perspective on gravitational lensing. We describe a new extension of the weak lensing formalism capable of describing strongly lensed images. By integrating the non-linear geodesic deviation equation, the amplification matrix of weak lensing is generalised to a sum over independent amplification tensors of increasing rank. We show how an image distorted by a generic lens may be constructed as a sum over `roulettes', which are the natural curves associated with the independent spin modes of the amplification tensors. Highly distorted images can be constructed even for large sources observed near or within the Einstein radius of a lens where the shear and convergence are large. The amplitude of each roulette is formed from a sum over appropriate derivatives of the lensing potential. Consequently, measuring these individual roulettes for images around a lens gives a new way to reconstruct a strong lens mass distribution without requiring a lens model. This formalism generalises the convergence, shear and flexion of weak lensing to arbitrary order, and provides a unified bridge between the strong and weak lensing regimes. This overview paper is accompanied by a much more detailed Paper II, arXiv:1603.04652

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