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Gravitational lensing has emerged as a powerful probe of the matter distribution on subgalactic scales, which itself may contain important clues about the fundamental origins and properties of dark matter. Broadly speaking, two different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Charles R. Keeton , Leonidas A. Moustakas

Measuring the distribution of mass on galaxy cluster scales is a crucial test of the Lambda CDM model, providing constraints on the nature of dark matter. Recent work investigating mass distributions of individual galaxy clusters using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Corless , L. King

In the present work, we derive the motion of light in the weak-field limit of energy-momentum-squared gravity (EMSG). To do so, we introduce the post-Newtonian (PN) expansion of this modified theory of gravity. It is shown that in addition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-25 Elham Nazari

The unknown nature of dark energy motivates continued cosmological tests of large-scale gravitational physics. We present a new consistency check based on the relative amplitude of non-relativistic galaxy peculiar motions, measured via…

The flux anomalies in four-image gravitational lenses can be interpreted as evidence for the dark matter substructure predicted by cold dark matter (CDM) halo models. In principle, these flux anomalies could arise from alternate sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. S. Kochanek , N. Dalal

We investigate the cosmological constraining power of combined weak galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering probes, i.e. $3\times2$-point analyses, assuming flexible models for redshift uncertainty, and Lagrangian perturbation theory and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Joseph DeRose , Noah Weaverdyck , Martin White , Shi-Fan Chen , David Schlegel , Anže Slosar

We investigate the gravitational lensing effects of a static spherically symmetric black hole (BH) within the framework of the revised Deser-Woodard (D-W) nonlocal gravity. By analyzing the deflection angle in both the weak and strong field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-26 Haida Li , Xiangdong Zhang

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 standard approach to test for deviations from general relativity on cosmological scales is to combine measurements of the growth rate of structure with gravitational lensing. In this study, we show that this method suffers from an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Sveva Castello , Zhuangfei Wang , Lawrence Dam , Camille Bonvin , Levon Pogosian

This work investigates the impact of different Modified Gravity (MG) models on the large-scale structures (LSS) properties in relation to the cosmic web (CW), using N-body simulations of f(R) and nDGP models. We analyse the impact of the MG…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-28 Suhani Gupta , Simon Pfeifer , Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Wojciech A. Hellwing

One major goal of upcoming large-scale-structure surveys is to constrain dark energy and modified gravity theories. In particular, galaxy clustering and gravitational lensing convergence are probes sensitive to modifications of general…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Chen Heinrich , Olivier Doré

Gravitational waves from binary mergers at cosmological distances will experience weak lensing by large scale structure. This causes a (de-)magnification, $\mu$, of the wave amplitude, and a degenerate modification to the inferred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Charlie T. Mpetha , Giuseppe Congedo , Andy Taylor , Martin A. Hendry

The morphology of galaxy clusters reflects the epoch at which they formed and hence depends on the value of the mean cosmological density, Omega. Recent studies have shown that the distribution of dark matter in clusters can be mapped from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gillian Wilson , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful probe for studying the fundamental properties of dark matter on sub-galactic scales. Detailed analyses of galaxy-scale lenses have revealed localized gravitational perturbations beyond the smooth…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Birendra Dhanasingham , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Daniel Gilman

Every signal propagating through the universe is at least weakly lensed by the intervening gravitational field. In some situations, wave-optics phenomena (diffraction, interference) can be observed as frequency-dependent modulations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-30 Stefano Savastano , Giovanni Tambalo , Hector Villarrubia-Rojo , Miguel Zumalacarregui

Gravitational lensing causes background galaxy images to become aligned, and the statistical characteristics of the image alignments can then be used to constrain the power spectrum of mass fluctuations. Analyses of gravitational lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 A. F. Heavens

We simulate the effects of gravitational lensing on the source count of high redshift galaxies as projected to be observed by the Hubble Frontier Fields program and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in the near future. Taking the mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Natalie Mashian , Abraham Loeb

Galaxy clusters identified with optical imaging tend to suffer from projection effects, which impact richness (the number of member galaxies in a cluster) and lensing coherently. Physically unassociated galaxies can be mistaken as cluster…

We use the IllustrisTNG300-ODM simulation to investigate the spin bias of low-mass halos and its connection to the strong clustering of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) reported by Zhang et al. (2025). By comparing two halo spin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-14 Qinglin Ma , Cheng Li , Yangyao Chen , Houjun Mo

We measure a combination of gravitational lensing, galaxy clustering, and redshift-space distortions called $E_G$. The quantity $E_G$ probes both parts of metric potential and is insensitive to galaxy bias and $\sigma_8$. These properties…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-13 Shadab Alam , Hironao Miyatake , Surhud More , Shirley Ho , Rachel Mandelbaum
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