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We present a gravitational lensing model of MACS J1149.5+2223 using ultra-deep Hubble Frontier Fields imaging data and spectroscopic redshifts from HST grism and VLT/MUSE spectroscopic data. We create total mass maps using 38 multiple…

We aim to gain new insights into the controversial dynamical status of MACS J0329-0211 (MACS0329), a massive cluster at z=0.4503, with a new analysis using a large sample of member galaxies as kinematic tracers. Our analysis is based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 M. Girardi , W. Boschin , A. Mercurio , N. Nocerino , M. Nonino , P. Rosati , A. Biviano , R. Demarco , C. Grillo , B. Sartoris , P. Tozzi , E. Vanzella

We measure the dark matter density profiles of six galaxy clusters: A383, MS 2137-23, MACS J0326.8-0043, MACS J1427.6-2521, MACS J0417.5-1154, and MACS J0949.8+1708. Each cluster contains at least one radial arc, a unique physical feature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Catherine Cerny , Mathilde Jauzac , David Lagattuta , Anna Niemiec , Guillaume Mahler , Alastair Edge , Richard Massey , Joseph Allingham

While our current cosmological model places galaxy clusters at the nodes of a filament network (the cosmic web), we still struggle to detect these filaments at high redshifts. We perform a weak lensing study for a sample of 16 massive,…

We present a novel approach for a combined analysis of X-ray and gravitational lensing data and apply this technique to the merging galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1$-$2403. The method exploits the information on the intracluster gas distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-04 M. Bonamigo , C. Grillo , S. Ettori , G. B. Caminha , P. Rosati , A. Mercurio , M. Annunziatella , I. Balestra , M. Lombardi

[abridged] We present a strong-lensing analysis of MACSJ0717.5+3745, based on the full depth of the Hubble Frontier Field (HFF) observations, which brings the number of multiply imaged systems to 61, ten of which are spectroscopically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-30 M. Limousin , J. Richard , E. Jullo , M. Jauzac , H. Ebeling , M. Bonamigo , A. Alavi , B. Clement , C. Giocoli , J. P. Kneib , T. Verdugo , P. Natarajan , B. Siana , H. Atek , M. Rexroth

We study the radial total mass profiles of nine massive galaxy clusters ($M_\mathrm{200c}>5\times10^{14}$ M$_\odot$) in the redshift range $0.2 < z < 0.9$. These clusters were observed as part of the CLASH, HFF, BUFFALO, and CLASH-VLT…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Enrico Maraboli , Claudio Grillo , Pietro Bergamini , Carlo Giocoli

We present VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph (VIMOS) observations of a z 6 galaxy quintuply imaged by the Frontier Fields galaxy cluster RXC J2248.7-4431 (z=0.348). This sub-L^*, high-z galaxy has been recently discovered by Monna et al.…

MACS J0600.1-2008 (MACS0600) is an X-ray luminous, massive galaxy cluster at $z_{\mathrm{d}}=0.43$, studied previously by the REionization LensIng Cluster Survey (RELICS) and ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey (ALCS) projects which revealed a…

Exploiting the fundamentally achromatic nature of gravitational lensing, we present a lens model for the massive galaxy cluster SMACSJ0723.3-7323 (SMACSJ0723, z=0.388) that significantly improves upon earlier work. Building on…

We use high-precision kinematic and lensing measurements of the total mass profile of the dynamically relaxed galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2-0847 at $z=0.44$ to estimate the value of the ratio $\eta=\Psi/\Phi$ between the two scalar potentials…

We present high-resolution mass reconstructions for five massive cluster-lenses spanning a redshift range from $z = 0.18$--0.57 utilising archival {\it Hubble Space Telescope} ({\it HST}) data and applying galaxy-galaxy lensing techniques.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Priyamvada Natarajan , Gabriella De Lucia , Volker Springel

(Abridged) The strong lensing models of galaxy clusters rely on the number and quality of multiple images with spectroscopic redshifts. We present an updated strong lensing model of MACS J0416.1-2403 with the largest sample of multiple…

Galaxy-scale strong lenses in galaxy clusters provide a unique tool to investigate their inner mass distribution and the sub-halo density profiles in the low-mass regime, which can be compared with the predictions from cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 G. Angora , P. Rosati , M. Meneghetti , M. Brescia , A. Mercurio , C. Grillo , P. Bergamini , A. Acebron , G. Caminha , M. Nonino , L. Tortorelli , L. Bazzanini , E. Vanzella

We present results of a strong-lensing analysis of MACS J0717.5+3745 (hereafter MACS J0717), an extremely X-ray luminous galaxy cluster at z=0.55. Observations at different wavelengths reveal a complex and dynamically very active cluster,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Limousin , H. Ebeling , J. Richard , A. M. Swinbank , G. P. Smith , M. Jauzac , S. Rodionov , C. -J. Ma , I. Smail , A. C. Edge , E. Jullo , J. P. Kneib

We reconstruct the projected mass distribution of a massive merging Hubble Frontier Fields cluster MACSJ0416 using the genetic algorithm based free-form technique called Grale. The reconstructions are constrained by 149 lensed images…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-19 Kevin Sebesta , Liliya L. R. Williams , Irshad Mohammed , Prasenjit Saha , Jori Liesenborgs

We present a parametric strong lensing modeling of the galaxy cluster MS\,0440.5+0204 (located at $z$ = 0.19). We have performed a strong lensing mass reconstruction of the cluster using three different models. The first model uses the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Tomás Verdugo , Eleazar R. Carrasco , Gael Foëx , Verónica Motta , Percy L. Gomez , Marceau Limousin , Juan Magaña , José A. de Diego

We present an updated gravitational lens model of the Bullet cluster (1E 0657-56) by combining JWST NIRCam imaging and NIRSpec spectroscopy. Although previous lens models relied on many multiply imaged galaxies, only six systems had…

We present accurate photometric redshifts for galaxies observed by the Cluster Lensing and Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH). CLASH observed 25 massive galaxy cluster cores with the Hubble Space Telescope in 16 filters spanning 0.2 - 1.7…

The Cluster Lensing And Supernovae survey with Hubble (CLASH) is an Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Multi-Cycle Treasury program observing 25 massive galaxy clusters. CLASH observations are carried out in 16 bands from UV to NIR to derive…