Gravitational lens candidates models

Lens modelling was done by a small group of specially interested volunteers from the Space Warps citizen-science community who originally found the candidate lenses. Models are categorized according to seven diagnostics indicating (a) the image morphology and how clear or indistinct it is, (b) whether the mass map and synthetic lensed image appear to be plausible, and (c) how the lens-model mass compares with the stellar mass and the abundance-matched halo mass.

The lensing masses range from ~10^11^ to >10^13^M_{sun|_. Preliminary estimates of the stellar masses show a smaller spread in stellar mass (except for two lenses): a factor of a few below or above ~10^11^M_{sun}_. Therefore, we expect the stellar-to-total mass fraction to decline sharply as lensing mass increases.