My doctoral dissertation from the University of Michigan in Astrophysics. Here is a link to thesis-main.pdf, the most up-to-date PDF of my written dissertation located within this Github repository.
Title: "Focusing cosmic telescopes: quantifying the systematics of strong lensing mass models in the era of precision lensing"
Author: Traci Johnson
Committee:
- Assistant Professor Keren Sharon (Chair)
- Professor August Evrard
- Professor Jean-Paul Kneib, EPFL
- Associate Professor Chris Miller
- Professor Jon Miller
3/29/2018: Final draft in progress. Incorporated comments from KS, JMM, AEE. Due April 3rd, 5pm.
The document was generated using a Latex style guide (rac.sty) conforming to the formatting guidelines laid out by the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan.
Most of the chapters in my dissertation are based off of first-author papers I have published over the course of my graduate studies at the University of Michigan.
- Chapter 2: Lens models and magnification maps of the six Hubble Frontier Fields clusters, Traci L. Johnson, Keren Sharon, Matthew B. Bayliss, Michael D. Gladders, Dan Coe, Harald Ebeling, ApJ, 797, 48.
- Chapter 3: The systematics of strong lens modeling quantified: the effects of constraint selection and redshift information on magnification, mass, and multiple image predictability, Traci L. Johnson & Keren Sharon, ApJ, 832, 82.
- Chapter 4: Star Formation at z = 2.481 in the Lensed Galaxy SDSS J1110+6459. I. Lens Modeling and Source Reconstruction, Traci L. Johnson, Keren Sharon, Michael D. Gladders, Jane R. Rigby, Matthew B. Bayliss, Eva Wuyts, Katherine E. Whitaker, Michael Florian and Katherine T. Murray, ApJ, 843, 78.
- Chapter 5: Star Formation at z = 2.481 in the Lensed Galaxy SDSS J1110+6459: Star Formation Down to 30 pc Scales, Traci L. Johnson, Jane R. Rigby, Keren Sharon, Michael D. Gladders, Michael Florian, Matthew B. Bayliss, Eva Wuyts, Katherine E. Whitaker, Rachael Livermore, Katherine T. Murray, ApJL, 843, 21L.
All citations conform to the guidelines outlined by the American Astronomical Society publications, specifically matching those for submitting papers to the Astrophysical Journal (apj.bst)
© Traci Lin Johnson 2018
This work is the intellectual property of (soon Dr.) Traci Johnson. I have chosen to make this repository public as, eventually, I will publish it on ProQuest as per request by the Rackham Graduate School for all doctoral dissertations. Therefore, I have listed this repository under the MIT license, so that others writing their dissertations through Rackham can download this repository and modify the directories with their own dissertation chapters.