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Galaxy structure with strong gravitational lensing: decomposing the internal mass distribution of massive elliptical galaxies

We investigate how strong gravitational lensing can test contemporary models of massive elliptical (ME) galaxy formation, by combining a traditional decomposition of their visible stellar distribution with a lensing analysis of their mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 James. W. Nightingale , Richard J. Massey , David R. Harvey , Andrew P. Cooper , Amy Etherington , Sut-Ieng Tam , Richard G. Hayes

Strong gravitational lensing as a probe of dark matter

Dark matter structures within strong gravitational lens galaxies and along their line of sight leave a gravitational imprint on the multiple images of lensed sources. Strong gravitational lensing provides, therefore, a key test of different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 S. Vegetti , S. Birrer , G. Despali , C. D. Fassnacht , D. Gilman , Y. Hezaveh , L. Perreault Levasseur , J. P. McKean , D. M. Powell , C. M. O'Riordan , G. Vernardos

Do gravitational lens galaxies have an excess of luminous substructure?

Strong gravitational lensing can be used to directly measure the mass function of their satellites, thus testing one of the fundamental predictions of cold dark matter cosmological models. Given the importance of this test it is essential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. M. Nierenberg , D. Oldenburg , T. Treu

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). The Strong Lensing Discovery Engine D -- Double-source-plane lens candidates

Strong gravitational lensing systems with multiple source planes are powerful tools for probing the density profiles and dark matter substructure of the galaxies. The ratio of Einstein radii is related to the dark energy equation of state…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-20 Euclid Collaboration , T. Li , T. E. Collett , M. Walmsley , N. E. P. Lines , K. Rojas , J. W. Nightingale , W. J. R. Enzi , L. A. Moustakas , C. Krawczyk , R. Gavazzi , G. Despali , P. Holloway , S. Schuldt , F. Courbin , R. B. Metcalf , D. J. Ballard , A. Verma , B. Clément , H. Degaudenzi , A. Melo , J. A. Acevedo Barroso , L. Leuzzi , A. Manjón-García , R. Pearce-Casey , D. Sluse , C. Tortora , R. Massey , G. Mahler , A. More , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , H. Aussel , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , P. Battaglia , R. Bender , F. Bernardeau , A. Biviano , A. Bonchi , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , G. Cañas-Herrera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , K. C. Chambers , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , G. De Lucia , A. M. Di Giorgio , C. Dolding , H. Dole , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Escoffier , M. Fabricius , M. Farina , R. Farinelli , F. Faustini , S. Ferriol , F. Finelli , S. Fotopoulou , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , S. Galeotta , K. George , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , P. Gómez-Alvarez , J. Gracia-Carpio , B. R. Granett , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , H. Hoekstra , W. Holmes , I. M. Hook , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , B. Joachimi , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , B. Kubik , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , Q. Le Boulc'h , A. M. C. Le Brun , D. Le Mignant , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , S. Maurogordato , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , A. Mora , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , R. C. Nichol , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , J. A. Schewtschenko , M. Schirmer , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , M. Seiffert , S. Serrano , P. Simon , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , A. Spurio Mancini , L. Stanco , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , N. Tessore , S. Toft , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , A. Zacchei , G. Zamorani , F. M. Zerbi , E. Zucca , V. Allevato , M. Ballardini , M. Bolzonella , E. Bozzo , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , A. Cappi , D. Di Ferdinando , J. A. Escartin Vigo , L. Gabarra , M. Huertas-Company , J. Martín-Fleitas , S. Matthew , N. Mauri , A. Pezzotta , M. Pöntinen , C. Porciani , I. Risso , V. Scottez , M. Sereno , M. Tenti , M. Viel , M. Wiesmann , Y. Akrami , S. Alvi , I. T. Andika , S. Anselmi , M. Archidiacono , F. Atrio-Barandela , K. Benson , P. Bergamini , D. Bertacca , M. Bethermin , A. Blanchard , L. Blot , M. L. Brown , S. Bruton , A. Calabro , F. Caro , C. S. Carvalho , T. Castro , F. Cogato , A. R. Cooray , O. Cucciati , S. Davini , F. De Paolis , G. Desprez , A. Díaz-Sánchez , J. J. Diaz , S. Di Domizio , J. M. Diego , P. -A. Duc , A. Enia , Y. Fang , A. G. Ferrari , P. G. Ferreira , A. Finoguenov , A. Fontana , A. Franco , K. Ganga , J. García-Bellido , T. Gasparetto , V. Gautard , E. Gaztanaga , F. Giacomini , F. Gianotti , G. Gozaliasl , M. Guidi , C. M. Gutierrez , A. Hall , W. G. Hartley , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , H. Hildebrandt , J. Hjorth , M. Jauzac , J. J. E. Kajava , Y. Kang , V. Kansal , D. Karagiannis , K. Kiiveri , C. C. Kirkpatrick , S. Kruk , J. Le Graet , L. Legrand , M. Lembo , F. Lepori , G. Leroy , G. F. Lesci , J. Lesgourgues , T. I. Liaudat , A. Loureiro , J. Macias-Perez , G. Maggio , M. Magliocchetti , F. Mannucci , R. Maoli , C. J. A. P. Martins , L. Maurin , M. Migliaccio , M. Miluzio , P. Monaco , C. Moretti , G. Morgante , S. Nadathur , K. Naidoo , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Nesseris , F. Passalacqua , K. Paterson , L. Patrizii , A. Pisani , D. Potter , S. Quai , M. Radovich , P. -F. Rocci , S. Sacquegna , M. Sahlén , D. B. Sanders , E. Sarpa , C. Scarlata , J. Schaye , A. Schneider , D. Sciotti , E. Sellentin , L. C. Smith , K. Tanidis , G. Testera , R. Teyssier , S. Tosi , A. Troja , M. Tucci , C. Valieri , A. Venhola , D. Vergani , G. Vernardos , G. Verza , P. Vielzeuf , N. A. Walton , J. Wilde , D. Scott

Combining strong and weak lensing estimates in the Cosmos field

We present a combined cosmic shear analysis of the modeling of line-of-sight distortions on strongly lensed extended arcs and galaxy shape measurements in the COSMOS field. We develop a framework to predict the covariance of strong lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Felix Arjun Kuhn , Claudio Bruderer , Simon Birrer , Adam Amara , Alexandre Réfrégier

Gravitational Lens Models Based on Submillimeter Array Imaging of Herschel-selected Strongly Lensed Sub-millimeter Galaxies at z>1.5

Strong gravitational lenses are now being routinely discovered in wide-field surveys at (sub)millimeter wavelengths. We present Submillimeter Array (SMA) high-spatial resolution imaging and Gemini-South and Multiple Mirror Telescope optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 R. S. Bussmann , I. Perez-Fournon , S. Amber , J. Calanog , M. A. Gurwell , H. Dannerbauer , F. De Bernardis , Hai Fu , A. I. Harris , M. Krips , A. Lapi , R. Maiolino , A. Omont , D. Riechers , J. Wardlow , A. J. Baker , M. Birkinshaw , J. Bock , N. Bourne , D. L. Clements , A. Cooray , G. De Zotti , L. Dunne , S. Dye , S. Eales , D. Farrah , R. Gavazzi , J. Gonzalez Nuevo , R. Hopwood , E. Ibar , R. J. Ivison , N. Laporte , S. Maddox , P. Martinez-Navajas , M. Michalowski , M. Negrello , S. J. Oliver , I. G. Roseboom , Douglas Scott , S. Serjeant , A. J. Smith , Matthew Smith , A. Streblyanska , E. Valiante , P. van der Werf , A. Verma , J. D. Vieira , L. Wang , D. Wilner

Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH): An Overview

The Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) is a 524-orbit multi-cycle treasury program to use the gravitational lensing properties of 25 galaxy clusters to accurately constrain their mass distributions. The survey,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Marc Postman , Dan Coe , Narciso Benitez , Larry Bradley , Tom Broadhurst , Megan Donahue , Holland Ford , Or Graur , Genevieve Graves , Stephanie Jouvel , Anton Koekemoer , Doron Lemze , Elinor Medezinski , Alberto Molino , Leonidas Moustakas , Sara Ogaz , Adam Riess , Steve Rodney , Piero Rosati , Keiichi Umetsu , Wei Zheng , Adi Zitrin , Matthias Bartelmann , Rychard Bouwens , Nicole Czakon , Ole Host , Leopoldo Infante , Saurabh Jha , Yolanda Jimenez-Teja , Daniel Kelson , Ofer Lahav , Ruth Lazkoz , Dani Maoz , Curtis McCully , Peter Melchior , Massimo Meneghetti , Julian Merten , John Moustakas , Mario Nonino , Brandon Patel , Eniko Regos , Stella Seitz , Jack Sayers , Sunil Golwala , Arjen Van der Wel

Candidate gravitationally lensed submillimeter galaxies in Herschel-ATLAS associated with WISE elliptical counterparts

We present a new and independent methodology for identifying gravitational lens candidates using data from the H-ATLAS and AllWISE surveys. Unlike previous approaches, which are typically biased toward bright, strongly lensed submillimeter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-20 Juan Alberto Cano , Joaquín González-Nuevo , Laura Bonavera , Marcos M. Cueli , Tom Bakx , Jose M. Casas , Rebeca Fernández-Fernández , David Crespo

Lensed galaxies in CANDELS

We present results from a search for gravitationally lensed galaxies present in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Wide Field Camera-3 (WFC3) images of the Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). We present one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-19 Asantha Cooray , Hai Fu , Jae Calanog , J. L. Wardlow , A. Chiu , Sam Kim , Joseph Smidt , V. Acquaviva , H. C. Ferguson , S. M. Faber , A. Galametz , N. A. Grogin , W. Hartley , D. Kocevski , A. Koekemoer , D. C. Koo , R. A. Lucas , L. Moustakas , J. A. Newman

SDSS-IV MaNGA: The Spectroscopic Discovery of Strongly Lensed Galaxies

We present a catalogue of 38 spectroscopically detected strong galaxy-galaxy gravitational lens candidates identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV). We were able to simulate narrow-band images for 8 of them demonstrating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-12 Michael S. Talbot , Joel R. Brownstein , Adam S. Bolton , Kevin Bundy , Brett H. Andrews , Brian Cherinka , Thomas E. Collett , Anupreeta More , Surhud More , Alessandro Sonnenfeld , Simona Vegetti , David A. Wake , Anne-Marie Weijmans , Kyle B. Westfall

Observation and Confirmation of Six Strong Lensing Systems in The Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data

We report the observation and confirmation of the first group- and cluster-scale strong gravitational lensing systems found in Dark Energy Survey (DES) data. Through visual inspection of data from the Science Verification (SV) season, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 B. Nord , E. Buckley-Geer , H. Lin , H. T. Diehl , J. Helsby , N. Kuropatkin , A. Amara , T. Collett , S. Allam , G. Caminha , C. De Bom , S. Desai , H. Dúmet-Montoya , M. Elidaiana da S. Pereira , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , C. Furlanetto , H. Gaitsch , M. Gill , K. W. Merritt , A. More , D. Tucker , E. S. Rykoff , E. Rozo , F. B. Abdalla , A. Agnello , M. Auger , R. J. Brunner , M. Carrasco Kind , F. J. Castander , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , R. Foley , D. W. Gerdes , K. Glazebrook , J. Gschwend , W. Hartley , R. Kessler , D. Lagattuta , G. Lewis , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , F. Menanteau , A. Niernberg , D. Scolnic , J. D. Vieira , R. Gramillano , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Banerji , A. Benoit-Lévy , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , C. B. D'Andrea , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. E. Evrard , J. Frieman , E. Gaztanaga , D. Gruen , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , T. S. Li , M. Lima , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , R. Miquel , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , A. R. Walker , W. Wester , Y. Zhang , the DES Collaboration

A search for candidate strongly-lensed dusty galaxies in the Planck satellite catalogues

The Planck sub-mm surveys detected the brightest strongly gravitationally lensed dusty galaxies in the sky. The combination of their extreme gravitational flux boosting and image stretching offers the unique possibility of measuring in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Tiziana Trombetti , Carlo Burigana , Matteo Bonato , Diego Herranz , Gianfranco De Zotti , Mattia Negrello , Vincenzo Galluzzi , Marcella Massardi

Bayesian approach to gravitational lens model selection: constraining H_0 with a selected sample of strong lenses

Bayesian model selection methods provide a self-consistent probabilistic framework to test the validity of competing scenarios given a set of data. We present a case study application to strong gravitational lens parametric models. Our goal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-22 Irène Balmès , Pier-Stefano Corasaniti

The SL2S Galaxy-scale Gravitational Lens Sample. I. The alignment of mass and light in massive early-type galaxies at z=0.2-0.9

We study the relative alignment of mass and light in a sample of 16 massive early-type galaxies at z=0.2-0.9 that act as strong gravitational lenses. The sample was identified from deep multi-band images obtained as part of the Canada…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Raphael Gavazzi , Tommaso Treu , Philip J. Marshall , Florence Brault , Andrea Ruff

Gravitational Lensing by Nearby Clusters of Galaxies

We present an estimation of the expected number of arcs and arclets in a sample of nearby (z<0.1) clusters of galaxies, that takes into account the magnitude limit of the objects as well as seeing effects. We show that strong lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eduardo S. Cypriano , Laerte Sodre' , Luis E. Campusano , Jean-Paul Kneib , Riccardo Giovanelli , Martha P. Haynes , Daniel A. Dale , Eduardo Hardy

Predictions for Strong Lens Detections with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Strong gravitational lensing is an ideal tool for mapping the distribution of dark matter and for testing the values of cosmological parameters. Forthcoming surveys such as Euclid and the Rubin Observatory LSST should increase the number of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-30 Charles Weiner , Stephen Serjeant , Chris Sedgwick

Survey of Gravitationally Lensed Objects in HSC Imaging (SuGOHI). IX. Discovery of Strongly Lensed Quasar Candidates

We report the discovery of new lensed quasar candidates in the imaging data of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) DR4, covering $1\,310~{\rm deg}^2$ of the sky with seeing of $\approx0.6''$. In addition to two catalogs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-11 James H. H. Chan , Kenneth C. Wong , Xuheng Ding , Dani Chao , I-Non Chiu , Anton T. Jaelani , Issha Kayo , Anupreeta More , Masamune Oguri , Sherry H. Suyu

DESI Strong Lens Foundry V: A Sample of HST-Observed Strong Lenses Modeled with GIGA-Lens

We present six galaxy-scale strong lenses with HST imaging modeled using GIGA-Lens. This is Paper V of the DESI Strong Lens Foundry series. These systems were discovered in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys using ML/AI methods and confirmed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Xiaosheng Huang , David Alvarez-Garcia , Monica Ubeda , Vikram Bhamre , Sean Xu , S. Baltasar , N. Ratier-Werbin , F. Urcelay , S. Agarwal , A. Cikota , Y. Hsu , E. Lin , D. J. Schlegel , E. Silver , C. J. Storfer , M. Tamargo-Arizmendi

A Bayesian Approach to Gravitational Lens Model Selection, SCMAV proceeding

Strong gravitational lenses are unique cosmological probes. These produce multiple images of a single source. Whether a single galaxy, a group or a cluster, extracting cosmologically relevant information requires an accurate modeling of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-13 Irène Balmès

Herschel-ATLAS: Modelling the first strong gravitational lenses

We have determined the mass-density radial profiles of the first five strong gravitational lens systems discovered by the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS). We present an enhancement of the semi-linear lens…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 S. Dye , M. Negrello , R. Hopwood , J. W. Nightingale , R. S. Bussmann , S. Amber , N. Bourne , A. Cooray , A. Dariush , L. Dunne , S. A. Eales , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo , E. Ibar , R. J. Ivison , S. Maddox , E. Valiante , M. Smith