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Strong gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics provide two complementary and orthogonal constraints on the density profiles of galaxies. Based on spherically symmetric, scale-free, mass models, it is shown that the combination of both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. V. E. Koopmans

Gravitational lensing represents a powerful tool to estimate the cosmological pa- rameters and the distribution of dark matter. I will describe the main observable quantities, concentrating on strong lensing, that manifests its effect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Tortora

We investigate the impact of modified-gravity models on the Lyman-$\alpha$ power spectrum. Building a simple analytical modeling, based on a truncated Zeldovich approximation, we estimate the intergalactic medium power spectrum and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Philippe Brax , Patrick Valageas

In this paper we build the general formalism of gravitational lensing in luminal Horndeski theories, deriving the Jacobi matrix equation and the general angular diameter distance in these theories through the screen space formalism. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-07 Pedro Bessa

We study gravitational lensing and the bending of light in low energy scale (M_S) gravity theories with extra space-time dimensions n. We find that due to the presence of spin-2 Kaluza-Klein states from compactification, a correction to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-Gang He , Girish C. Joshi , Bruce H. J. McKellar

In this paper we have investigated the gravitational lensing in a spherically symmetric spacetime with torsion in the generalized Einstein-Cartan-Kibble-Sciama (ECKS) theory of gravity by considering higher order terms. The torsion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-07 Lu Zhang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

The observables in a strong gravitational lens are usually just the image positions and sometimes the flux ratios. We develop a new and simple algorithm which allows a set of models to be fitted exactly to the observations. Taking our cue…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. W. Evans , H. J. Witt

The modifications induced in the standard weak-lensing formula if Newtonian gravity differs from inverse square law at large distances are studied. The possibility of putting bounds on the mass of gravitons from lensing data is explored. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. R. Choudhury , G. C. Joshi , S. Mahajan , B. H. J. McKellar

In this article, we present an overview of the new developments in problems of the plasma influence on the effects of gravitational lensing, complemented by pieces of new material and relevant discussions. Deflection of light in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-17 Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

Strong gravitational lensing has been a powerful probe of cosmological models and gravity. To date, constraints in either domain have been obtained separately. We propose a new methodology through which the cosmological model, specifically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Tao Yang , Simon Birrer , Bin Hu

Strong gravitational lensing produces multiple images of a gravitational wave (GW) signal, which can be observed by detectors as time-separated copies of the same event. It has been shown that under favourable circumstances, by combining…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-04 Harsh Narola , Justin Janquart , Leïla Haegel , K. Haris , Otto A. Hannuksela , Chris Van Den Broeck

Clusters of galaxies offer a robust test bed for probing the nature of dark matter that is insensitive to the assumption of the gravity theories. Both Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and General Relativity (GR) would require similar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Priyamvada Natarajan , Hongsheng Zhao

We use a strong lensing inversion in the cluster of galaxies AC 114 to derive constraints on the cosmological parameters Omega_M0 and Omega_Lambda. If it is possible to measure spectroscopically the redshifts of many multiple images then…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Golse , J. -P. Kneib , G. Soucail

If the statistics of quasar lensing are to be used to constrain the cosmological model, the various potential systematic uncertainties in the deflector population must be accounted for. One ambiguity in the lensing properties of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel J. Mortlock , Rachel L. Webster

We present a formalism to study screening mechanisms in modified theories of gravity via perturbative methods in different cosmological scenarios. We consider Einstein frame posed theories that are recast as Jordan frame theories, where a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Alejandro Aviles , Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota , David F. Mota

In this study, we investigate gravitational lensing within modified gravity frameworks, focusing on the Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$ and normal branch Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (nDGP) models, and we compare these results with those obtained from general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-03 Ali Tizfahm , Saeed Fakhry , Javad T. Firouzjaee , Antonino Del Popolo

We present a unified Bayesian framework to jointly constrain the Hubble constant $H_0$ and the post-Newtonian parameter $\gamma$, a key probe of deviations from general relativity, using the population characteristics of strongly lensed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 Xinguang Ying , Tao Yang

Strong gravitational lensing is a useful probe of both the intrinsic properties of the lenses and the cosmological parameters of the universe. The large number of model parameters and small sample of observed lens systems, however, have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dragan Huterer , Chung-Pei Ma

Our modified gravity theory (MOG) was used successfully in the past to explain a range of astronomical and cosmological observations, including galaxy rotation curves, the CMB acoustic peaks, and the galaxy mass power spectrum. MOG was also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-28 J. W. Moffat , V. T. Toth

We study the strong gravitational lensing properties of galaxy clusters obtained from N-body simulations with different kind of Dark Energy (DE). We consider both dynamical DE, due to a scalar field self--interacting through Ratra-Peebles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrea V. Maccio'