Weighing Galaxies Inside-Out: Small-Scale Lensing and the Stellar Mass Problem

arXiv:2610.01541 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-10-01 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-10-01

Updated: 2026-10-01

Comments: 15 pages, 11 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

Weak Lensing — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Gravitational Lensing — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Calibration — 5× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Population Synthesis — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Degeneracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Initial Mass Function (IMF) — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
AGN — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Baryonic Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Bayesian Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Forward modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Homogeneity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Physical Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Systematic Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Velocity Dispersion — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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