Supermagnified Stars in Lensing Clusters and Small-Scale Structure in the Dark Matter
Supermagnified stars, discovered by HST and JWST in lensing clusters of galaxies, are luminous stars in source galaxies lying near lensing caustics that are magnified by large factors ($\sim 1000$), making them detectable at cosmological distances. Intracluster stars in the lens modify the large scale caustic into a corrugated network of micro caustics, causing frequent microlensing events of the supermagnified st...