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Strong Lensing is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in galaxies and clusters and a relevant tool for cosmography. Analyses of strong gravitational lenses with Deep Learning have become a popular approach due to these astronomical…

In this study, we introduce a novel analytical Gaussian Process (GP) cosmography methodology, leveraging the differentiable properties of GPs to derive key cosmological quantities analytically. Our approach combines cosmic chronometer (CC)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-19 Bikash R. Dinda

As an alternative gravitational theory to General Relativity (GR), Conformal Gravity (CG) can be verified through astronomical observations. Currently, Mannheim and Kazanas have provided vacuum solutions for cosmological and local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-27 Li-Xue Yue , Da-Ming Chen

Observations of galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing (SGL) systems have enabled unique tests of nonlinear departures from general relativity (GR) on the galactic and supergalactic scales. One of the most important cases of such tests…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Yujie Lian , Shuo Cao , Tonghua Liu , Marek Biesiada , Zong-Hong Zhu

Strong lensing has developed into an important astrophysical tool for probing both cosmology and galaxies (their structures, formations, and evolutions). Now several hundreds of strong lens systems produced by massive galaxies have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shuo Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

Accelerating expansion of the Universe is a great challenge for both physics and cosmology. In light of lacking the convincing theoretical explanation, an effective description of this phenomenon in terms of cosmic equation of state turns…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Biesiada , A. Piorkowska , B. Malec

We discuss strong gravitational lensing by multiple objects along any line of sight. The probability for strong gravitational lensing by more than one lens is small, but a number of strong lens systems in which more than one separate lens…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ole Moeller , A. W. Blain

The standard model of cosmology ($\Lambda$CDM) is facing a serious crisis caused by the inconsistencies in the measurements of some fundamental cosmological parameters (Hubble constant $H_{0}$ and cosmic curvature parameter $\Omega_{k}$ for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Savita Gahlaut

Remarkable development of cosmology is benefited from the increasingly improved measurements of cosmic distances including absolute distances and relative distances. In recent years, however, the emerged cosmological tensions motivate us to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-21 Jing-Zhao Qi , Wei-Hong Hu , Yu Cui , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The sample of time-delay gravitational lenses appropriate for studying the geometry of the Universe continues to grow as dedicated campaigns, such as the Dark Energy Survey, the VST ATLAS survey, and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-01 Fulvio Melia , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

In this paper, we study the cosmic constraint to $w$CDM model via $118$ strong gravitational lensing systems which are complied from SLACS, BELLS, LSD and SL2S surveys, where the ratio between two angular diameter distances $D^{obs} =…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-15 Jie An , Baorong Chang , Lixin Xu

The difficult task of observing Dark Matter subhaloes is of paramount importance since it would constrain Dark Matter particle properties (cold or warm relic) and confirm once again the longstanding $\Lambda$CDM model. In the near future…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Marco Chianese

Model-independent measurements for the cosmic spatial curvature, which is related to the nature of cosmic space-time geometry, plays an important role in cosmology. On the basis of the Distance Sum Rule in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-07 Huan Zhou , Zheng-Xiang Li

We investigate the potential of weak gravitational lensing maps to differentiate between distinct cosmological models, considering cosmic variance due to a limited map extension and the presence of noise. We introduce a measure of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Antonio Guimarães

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters is a fundamental tool to study dark matter and constrain the geometry of the Universe. Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields programme has allowed a significant improvement of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-19 Ana Acebron , Eric Jullo , Marceau Limousin , André Tilquin , Carlo Giocoli , Mathilde Jauzac , Guillaume Mahler , Johan Richard

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

Dark matter structures within strong gravitational lens galaxies and along their line of sight leave a gravitational imprint on the multiple images of lensed sources. Strong gravitational lensing provides, therefore, a key test of different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 S. Vegetti , S. Birrer , G. Despali , C. D. Fassnacht , D. Gilman , Y. Hezaveh , L. Perreault Levasseur , J. P. McKean , D. M. Powell , C. M. O'Riordan , G. Vernardos

The identification of strong gravitational lenses in large surveys has historically been a rather time consuming exercise. Early data from the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (Herschel-ATLAS) demonstrate that lenses can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-22 Jo Short , Elizabeth Pearson , Peter Coles , Steve Eales

Strong gravitational lenses allow us to peer into the farthest reaches of space by bending the light from a background object around a massive object in the foreground. Unfortunately, these lenses are extremely rare, and manually finding…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-24 Stephen Sheng , Keerthi Vasan G. C , Chi Po Choi , James Sharpnack , Tucker Jones

We present results from a systematic search for strong gravitational lenses in the GOODS ACS data. The search technique involves creating a sample of likely lensing galaxies, which we define as massive early-type galaxies in a redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. D. Fassnacht , L. A. Moustakas , S. Casertano , H. C. Ferguson , R. A. Lucas , Y. Park