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Glossary
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arcsec
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Arcsecond, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1/3600 of a degree. Used here to denote coordinates in the lens plane, deflection angles, the core radius, the scale radius, the Einstein radius of the lens, and the softening parameter.


arcsec^2
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Square arcseconds, used to denote the gravitational lensing potential at given coordinates and also used in the calculation of the radius in the lensing potential and convergence formulas.


Msun
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Solar mass, used here to denote the total mass of the lens.


Mpc
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Megaparsec, a unit of distance used in astronomy, used to denote distances related to the angular diameter distance in the cosmology calculations.


Msun/Mpc^2
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Solar masses per square megaparsec, used to denote the surface mass density at given coordinates and the critical surface density.


Msun/Mpc^3
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Solar masses per cubic megaparsec, used here to denote the central mass density in the central convergence calculation.


seconds
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Time unit, used here to denote the gravitational time delay.


radians
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A unit of angular measure used to denote the orientation of the lens on the sky and the position angle of the lens.

meters
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A unit of length in the metric system, used here to denote the position vector in the lens plane in the EPL model.


arcsec/pixel
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Arcseconds per pixel, used to denote the pixel scale of the source image in the lens plane, indicating the angular size each pixel represents.


flux
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A unit of brightness, used here to denote the intensity values within the pixelated source image and the intensity at the effective radius (Ie) of the Sersic source.


unitless
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Indicates a dimensionless quantity, used here for redshifts, the axis ratio of the lens, the power-law slope parameter of the lens model, shear components, the redshift of the lens, the concentration parameter, and the convergence of the lens.

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