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Like light, gravitational waves can be gravitationally lensed by massive astrophysical objects. Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies and galaxy clusters is anticipated to become observable in the coming years. This phenomenon will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Leo C. Y. Ng , Justin Janquart , Hemantakumar Phurailatpam , Harsh Narola , Jason S. C. Poon , Chris Van Den Broeck , Otto A. Hannuksela

Gravitational lensing has become one of the most interesting tools to study the mass distribution in the Universe. Since gravitational light deflection is independent of the nature and state of the matter, it is ideally suited to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Schneider

We present the analysis of a sample of twenty-four SLACS-like galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lens systems with a background source and deflectors from the Illustris-1 simulation. We study the degeneracy between the complex mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 W. Enzi , S. Vegetti , G. Despali , J. -W. Hsueh , R. B. Metcalf

LISA might detect gravitational waves from mergers of massive black hole binaries strongly lensed by intervening galaxies (Sereno et al. 2010). The detection of multiple gravitational lensing events would provide a new tool for cosmography.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Sereno , Ph. Jetzer , A. Sesana , M. Volonteri

All gravitational-wave signals are inevitably gravitationally lensed by intervening matter as they propagate through the Universe. When a gravitational-wave signal is magnified, it \emph{appears} to have originated from a closer, more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Amanda M. Farah , Jose María Ezquiaga , Maya Fishbach , Daniel E. Holz

We present the first high-resolution images of CSWA 31, a gravitational lens system observed as part of the SLUGS (Sloan Lenses Unravelled by Gemini Studies) program. These systems exhibit complex image structure with the potential to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Brendon J. Brewer , Geraint F. Lewis , Vasily Belokurov , Michael J. Irwin , Terry J. Bridges , N. Wyn Evans

Score-based models can serve as expressive, data-driven priors for scientific inverse problems. In strong gravitational lensing, they enable posterior inference of a background galaxy from its distorted, multiply-imaged observation.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Gabriel Missael Barco , Ronan Legin , Connor Stone , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

We present a new pixelized method for the inversion of gravitationally lensed extended source images which we term adaptive semi-linear inversion (SLI). At the heart of the method is an h-means clustering algorithm which is used to derive a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 James Nightingale , Simon Dye

Modeling of strongly gravitationally lensed galaxies is often required in order to use them as astrophysical or cosmological probes. With current and upcoming wide-field imaging surveys, the number of detected lenses is increasing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , R. Canameras , Y. Shu , S. Taubenberger , S. Ertl , A. Halkola

Gravitational waves propagate along null geodesics like light rays in the geometrical optics approximation, and they may have a chance to suffer from gravitational lensing by intervening objects, as is the case for electromagnetic waves.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-12 Yousuke Itoh , Toshifumi Futamase , Makoto Hattori

Context. Strong lensing mass measurements require the knowledge of the redshift of both the lens and the source galaxy. Traditionally, spectroscopic redshifts are used for this purpose. Upcoming surveys, however, will lead to the discovery…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-15 Alessandro Sonnenfeld

We report the application of implicit likelihood inference to the prediction of the macro-parameters of strong lensing systems with neural networks. This allows us to perform deep learning analysis of lensing systems within a well-defined…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Ronan Legin , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Benjamin Wandelt

To use strong gravitational lenses as an astrophysical or cosmological probe, models of their mass distributions are often needed. We present a new, time-efficient automation code for uniform modeling of strongly lensed quasars with GLEE, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 S. Ertl , S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , T. Schmidt , T. Treu , S. Birrer , A. J. Shajib , D. Sluse

With increasing sensitivities of the current ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, the prospects of detecting a strongly lensed GW signal are going to be high in the coming years. When such a signal passes through an intervening…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Anuj Mishra , Ashish Kumar Meena , Anupreeta More , Sukanta Bose , J S Bagla

High redshift sources suffer from magnification or demagnification due to weak gravitational lensing by large scale structure. One consequence of this is that the distance-redshift relation, in wide use for cosmological tests, suffers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Madhura Killedar , Paul D. Lasky , Geraint F. Lewis , Chris J. Fluke

Luminosity profiles of galaxies acting as strong gravitational lenses can be tricky to study. Indeed, strong gravitational lensing images display several lensed components, both point-like and diffuse, around the lensing galaxy. Those…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-23 J. Biernaux , P. Magain , D. Sluse , V. Chantry

We consider a machine learning algorithm to detect and identify strong gravitational lenses on sky images. First, we simulate different artificial but very close to reality images of galaxies, stars and strong lenses, using six different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-06 H. G. Khachatryan

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…

In this paper, we propose a new method to use the strong lensing data sets to constrain a cosmological model. By taking the ratio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 Nannan Wang , Lixin Xu

Gravitationally lensed Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) offer critical advantages over other lensed sources. They can be detected via continuously operating detectors covering most of the sky. They offer extremely high time resolution to determine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-27 A. J. Levan , B. P. Gompertz , G. P. Smith , M. E. Ravasio , G. P. Lamb , N. R. Tanvir