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We estimate the lensing convergence power spectrum from supernovae magnification data using real space correlation function technique. For our analysis we have utilized 296 supernovae from 5-year Supernovae Legacy Survey in the weak lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-07 Ayan Mitra , Barun Kumar Pal , Supratik Pal

We study the constraints which the next generation of radio telescopes could place on the mass and number of neutrino species by studying the gravitational lensing of high redshift 21 cm emission in combination with wide-angle surveys of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Benton Metcalf

Strong gravitational lensing provides a geometric probe of cosmology in a unique manner through distance ratios involving the source and lens. This is well known for the time delay distance derived from measured delays between lightcurves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Eric V. Linder

We constrain the mass--richness scaling relation of redMaPPer galaxy clusters identified in the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 data using weak gravitational lensing. We split clusters into $4\times3$ bins of richness $\lambda$ and redshift $z$…

Strong gravitational lensing is a gravitational wave (GW) propagation effect that influences the inferred GW source parameters and the cosmological environment. Identifying strongly-lensed GW images is challenging as waveform amplitude…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-02 Yijun Wang , Rico K. L. Lo , Alvin K. Y. Li , Yanbei Chen

We present a simple method to accurately infer line of sight (LOS) integrated lensing effects for galaxy scale strong lens systems through image reconstruction. Our approach enables us to separate weak lensing LOS effects from the main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-02 Simon Birrer , Cyril Welschen , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

We present a method to include lensing selection effects due to the finite horizon of a given detector when studying lensing of gravitational wave (GW) sources. When selection effects are included, the mean of the magnification distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-21 Giulia Cusin , Nicola Tamanini

We compare forecasts for the abundance and properties of strong gravitational lenses in the COSMOS-Web survey, a $0.54$ deg$^2$ survey of the COSMOS field using the NIRCam and MIRI instruments aboard JWST, with the first catalogue of strong…

We further develop the description of redshift space distortions within the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures. First, we generalize the counterterms to include the effect of baryonic physics and primordial non-Gaussianity.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Matthew Lewandowski , Leonardo Senatore , Francisco Prada , Cheng Zhao , Chia-Hsun Chuang

We predict the effects of gravitational lensing on the color-selected flux-limited samples of z~4.3 and z>5.8 quasars, recently published by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Our main findings are: (i) The lensing probability should be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stuart Wyithe , Abraham Loeb

Spatially resolved spectroscopic data from the CIRPASS integral field unit (IFU) on Gemini are used to measure the gravitational lensing of the 4-image quasar Q2237+0305 on different size scales. A method for measuring the substructure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. B. Metcalf , L. A. Moustakas , A. J. Bunker , I. R. Parry

We describe a method to estimate the mass distribution of a gravitational lens and the position of the sources from combined strong and weak lensing data. The algorithm combines weak and strong lensing data in a unified way producing a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Diego , M. Tegmark , P. Protopapas , H. B. Sandvik

We show how observations of multiply-imaged quasars at high redshift can be used as a probe of dark matter clumps (subhalos with masses ~ 10^9 solar masses) within the virialized extent of more massive lensing halos. A large abundance of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Benton Metcalf , Piero Madau

Galactic sized gravitational lenses are simulated by combining a cosmological N-body simulation and models for the baryonic component of the galaxy. The lens caustics, critical curves, image locations and magnification ratios are calculated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Adam Amara , R. Benton Metcalf , Thomas J. Cox , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Weak gravitational lensing has proven to be a powerful tool to map directly the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The technique, currently used, relies on the accurate measurement of the gravitational shear that corresponds to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Pires , A. Amara

We present a quantitative analysis of the largest contiguous maps of projected mass density obtained from gravitational lensing shear. We use data from the 154 deg2 covered by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey. Our study is…

We study the SLACS strong lensing system SDSSJ1430+4105 at z=0.285. The lensed source (z=0.575) of this system has a complex morphology with several subcomponents. Its subcomponents span a radial range from 4 to 10kpc in the lens plane.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-24 Thomas Eichner , Stella Seitz , Anne Bauer

Bright gravitationally lensed galaxies provide our most detailed view of galaxies at high redshift. Yet as a result of the small number of ultra-bright z~2 lensed systems with confirmed redshifts, most detailed spectroscopic studies have…

Gravitational lensing is potentially able to observe mass-selected halos, and to measure the projected cluster mass function. An optimal mass-selection requires a quantitative understanding of the noise behavior in mass maps. This paper is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. Van Waerbeke

We study lens statistics in flat, low-density universes with different equations of state $w=p_Q/\rho_Q$ for the dark energy component. Dark energy modifies the distance-redshift relation and the mass function of dark matter halos leading…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kuhlen , C. R. Keeton , P. Madau