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We study the gravitational lensing influence of a massive object in a dark matter halo, using a simple model of a point mass embedded in a spherical Navarro--Frenk--White halo. Building on the analysis of critical curves and caustics…

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It is widely recognized that cold dark matter models predict abundant dark matter substructure in halos of all sizes. Galaxy-galaxy lensing provides a unique opportunity to directly measure the presence and the mass of such substructures in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Priyamvada Natarajan , Volker Springel

Dark matter and dark energy dominate the behavior of our universe. The dark matter usually forms halo structures in large number of galaxies. Properties of dark matter halo can be revealed and understood from the gravitational lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-12 Chen-Kai Qiao , Mi Zhou

The nature of the dark sector of the Universe remains one of the outstanding problems in modern cosmology, with the search for new observational probes guiding the development of the next generation of observational facilities. Clues come…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hareth Mahdi , Martijn van Beek , Pascal Elahi , Geraint Lewis , Chris Power , Madhura Killedar

If it is hypothesised that there is no dark matter then some alternative gravitational theory must take the place of general relativity (GR) on the largest scales. Dynamical measurements can be used to investigate the nature of such a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel J. Mortlock , Edwin L. Turner

The dark matter halo has non-negligible effects on the gravitational lensing of supermassive black hole in the galaxy center. Our work presents a study on the time-delay of light in gravitational lensing of black holes enclosed by dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-14 Chen-Kai Qiao , Ping Su

We use a sample of 17 strong gravitational lens systems from the BELLS GALLERY survey to quantify the amount of low-mass dark matter haloes within the lensing galaxies and along their lines of sight, and to constrain the properties of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 E. Ritondale , S. Vegetti , G. Despali , M. W. Auger , L. V. E Koopmans , J. P. McKean

We study three cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way(MW)-sized halos including a comparison with the dark matter(DM)-only counterparts. We find one of our simulated galaxies with interesting MW-like features. Thanks to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Pol Mollitor , Emmanuel Nezri , Romain Teyssier

We present detailed calculations of the magnification distribution, including both weak and strong lensing, using very recent solutions of the Dyer-Roeder (1973) equation for light propagation in a inhomogeneous universe with a cosmological…

Stringent observational constraints on the sub-galactic matter power spectrum would allow one to distinguish between the concordance $\Lambda$CDM and the various alternative dark-matter models that predict significantly different properties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-21 D. Bayer , S. Chatterjee , L. V. E. Koopmans , S. Vegetti , J. P. McKean , T. Treu , C. D. Fassnacht , K. Glazebrook

We study the efficiency of numerically simulated galaxy clusters for producing strong gravitational lensing events in different dark-energy cosmologies with constant and time-variable equation of state and we compare it with ``standard''…

Low-mass structures of dark matter (DM) are expected to be entirely devoid of light-emitting regions and baryons. Precisely because of this lack of baryonic feedback, small-scale substructures of the Milky Way are a relatively pristine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Cristina Mondino , Anna-Maria Taki , Ken Van Tilburg , Neal Weiner

We investigate strong gravitational lensing in the concordance $\Lambda$CDM cosmology by carrying out ray-tracing along past light cones through the Millennium Simulation, the largest simulation of cosmic structure formation ever carried…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-03 Stefan Hilbert , Simon D. M. White , Jan Hartlap , Peter Schneider

Dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments aim to place constraints on the DM--nucleon scattering cross-section and the DM particle mass. These constraints depend sensitively on the assumed local DM density and velocity distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Robert Poole-McKenzie , Andreea S. Font , Billy Boxer , Ian G. McCarthy , Sergey Burdin , Sam G. Stafford , Shaun T. Brown

Observations of a flat density profile in the cores of dark-matter-dominated halos on the two extremes of mass for virialized objects in the universe, dwarf galaxies and galaxy clusters, present a serious challenge to the current standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paul R. Shapiro , Ilian T. Iliev

Strong gravitational lensing provides a powerful tool to directly infer the dark matter (DM) subhalo mass function (SHMF) in lens galaxies. However, comparing observationally inferred SHMFs to theoretical predictions remains challenging, as…

We present the results of a study of the average mass profile around galaxies using weak gravitational lensing. We use 45.5 deg^2 of R_C band imaging data from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) and define a sample of 1.2\times 10^5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henk Hoekstra , Howard K. C. Yee , Michael D. Gladders

We study shapes and alignments of 45 dark matter (DM) haloes and their brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) using a sample of 39 massive clusters from Hubble Frontier Field (HFF), Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH), and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Taizo Okabe , Masamune Oguri , Sébastien Peirani , Yasushi Suto , Yohan Dubois , Christophe Pichon , Tetsu Kitayama , Shin Sasaki , Takahiro Nishimichi

We derive constraints on dark matter (DM) annihilation cross section and decay lifetime from cross-correlation analyses of the data from Fermi-LAT and weak lensing surveys that cover a wide area of $\sim660$ squared degrees in total. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-29 Masato Shirasaki , Oscar Macias , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Satoshi Shirai , Naoki Yoshida

The statistics of gravitational lensing can provide us with a very powerful probe of the mass distribution of matter in the universe. By comparing predicted strong lensing probabilities with observations, we can test the mass distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tong-Jie Zhang