Review Article

Gravitational Lensing as a Probe of Cold Dark Matter Subhalos

Figure 6

A foreground galaxy with a dark matter halo produces multiple macroimages of a background light source. A subhalo located in the dark halo intercepts one of these macroimages, which may give rise to (a) additional image small-scale splitting of the affected macroimage if the source is sufficiently small, or (b) a mild distortion in the affected macroimage, if the source is large.
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