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The weak gravitational lensing effect, small coherent distortions of galaxy images by means of a gravitational tidal field, can be used to study the relation between the matter and galaxy distribution. In this context, weak lensing has so…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 P. Simon , P. Watts , P. Schneider , H. Hoekstra , M. D. Gladders , H. K. C. Yee , B. C. Hsieh , H. Lin

Assessing the probability that two or more gravitational waves (GWs) are lensed images of the same source requires an understanding of the image properties, including their relative phase shifts in strong lensing (SL). For non-precessing,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 Jose María Ezquiaga , Daniel E. Holz , Wayne Hu , Macarena Lagos , Robert M. Wald

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

We apply the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to the study of light rays in a plasma medium in a static and spherically symmetric gravitational field and also to the study of timelike geodesics followed for test massive particles in a spacetime with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-13 Gabriel Crisnejo , Emanuel Gallo

Just like light, gravitational waves (GWs) are deflected and magnified by gravitational fields as they propagate through the Universe. However, their low frequency, phase coherence and feeble coupling to matter allow for distinct lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Giovanni Tambalo , Miguel Zumalacárregui , Liang Dai , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung

Weak gravitational lensing has been used extensively in the past decade to constrain the masses of galaxy clusters, and is the most promising observational technique for providing the mass calibration necessary for precision cosmology with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Tobias Baldauf , Robert E. Smith

We report a significant detection of weak, tangential distortion of the images of cosmologically distant, faint galaxies due to gravitational lensing by foreground galaxies. A mean image polarisation of $<p>=0.011\pm 0.006$ is measured for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Tereasa Brainerd , Roger Blandford , Ian Smail

The robust estimation of the tiny distortions (shears) of galaxy shapes caused by weak gravitational lensing in the presence of much larger shape distortions due to the point-spread function (PSF) has been widely investigated. One major…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Alex Gurvich , Rachel Mandelbaum

In this review, various researches on finding the bending angle of light deflected by a massive gravitating object which regard the Gauss-Bonnet theorem as the premise have been revised. Primarily, the Gibbons and Werner method is studied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-05 Yashmitha Kumaran , Ali Övgün

We use the non-observation of strong lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) in the first three observation runs of LIGO-Virgo detectors to constrain the fraction of dark matter in the form of compact objects in the mass range…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-28 A. Barsode , S. J. Kapadia , P. Ajith

In this article we present an analytic calculation of the probability distribution of the magnification of distant sources due to weak gravitational lensing from non-linear scales. We use a realistic description of the non-linear density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 P. Valageas

Direct measurements of dark matter distributions in galaxies are currently only possible through the use of gravitational lensing observations. Combinations of lens modelling and stellar velocity dispersion measurements provide the best…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 N. F. Bate , D. J. E. Floyd , R. L. Webster , J. S. B. Wyithe

We report the detection of weak gravitational lensing of faint, distant background galaxies by the rich, X-ray luminous cluster of galaxies MS1054-03 at z=0.83. This is the first measurement of weak lensing by a bona fide cluster at such a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 G. A. Luppino , Nick Kaiser

The possibility of detecting weak lensing effects from deep wide field imaging surveys has open new means of probing the large-scale structures of the Universe and measuring cosmological parameters. In this paper we present a systematic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 F. Bernardeau , L. van Waerbeke , Y. Mellier

Weak gravitational lensing is considered to be one of the most powerful tools to study the mass and the mass distribution of galaxy clusters. However, weak lensing mass reconstructions are plagued by the so-called mass-sheet degeneracy--the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-16 M. Bradac , M. Lombardi , P. Schneider

Optical weak lensing surveys have become a powerful tool for precision cosmology, but remain subject to systematic effects that can severely bias cosmological parameter estimates if not carefully removed. We discuss the possibility of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-22 Philip Bull , Ian Harrison , Eric Huff

Aim of the paper is study weak gravitational lensing of quantum (perturbed) (QLBHL) and classical (CLBHL) Lukewarm black hole in presence of cosmological parameter $\Lambda$. We apply numerical method to evaluate deflection angle of bending…

General Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 H. Ghaffarnejad , M. A. Mojahedi

The measurement of the integrated optical polarization of weakly gravitationally lensed galaxies can provide considerable constraints on lens models. The method outlined depends on fact that the orientation of the direction of optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Edouard Audit , John F. L. Simmons

The COSMOS field has been the subject of a wide range of observations, with a number of studies focusing on reconstructing the 3D dark matter density field. Typically, these studies have focused on one given method or tracer. In this paper,…

In weak lensing investigations, galaxy shapes are deconvolved for the effects of the point spread function (PSF) using stellar images. In this paper we use physical models of the telescope optics to understand the spatial variation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-02 Mike Jarvis , Paul Schechter , Bhuvnesh Jain