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Session B14 - Galaxies, Supernovae, and Cosmology.
ORAL session, Saturday morning, April 28
Room 14, Renaissance Hotel$

[B14.010] Strong lensing of supernovae

Daniel Holz (Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB)

We discuss the possibility of strong lensing of high-redshift supernovae. We examine how likely it is for such an event to occur. Furthermore, we explore what science can be done given such an event. In addition to improving measures of the Hubble constant, a multiply-imaged type Ia supernovae will break the mass-sheet degeneracy, and allow for a precise measurement of the intervening mass.

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