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In this paper, we propose a new method to use the strong lensing data sets to constrain a cosmological model. By taking the ratio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 Nannan Wang , Lixin Xu

Bolton et al. (2007) have derived a mass-based fundamental plane using photometric and spectroscopic observations of 36 strong gravitational lenses. The lensing allows a direct determination of the mass-surface density and so avoids the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. H. Sanders , D. D. Land

The measurement of the mass of clusters of galaxies is crucial for their use in cosmology and astrophysics. Masses can be efficiently determined with weak lensing (WL) analyses. I compiled Literature Catalogs of weak Lensing Clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Mauro Sereno

Strong gravitational lensing offers constraints on the Hubble constant that are independent of other methods. However, those constraints are subject to uncertainties in lens models. Previous studies suggest that using an elliptical power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 Dilys Ruan , Charles R. Keeton

We revisit the issue of non-parametric gravitational lens reconstruction and present a new method to obtain the cluster mass distribution using strong lensing data without using any prior information on the underlying mass. The method…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 J. M. Diego , P. Protopapas , H. B Sandvik , M. Tegmark

The clustering of galaxies and the matter distribution around them can be described using the halo model complemented with a realistic description of the way galaxies populate dark matter haloes. This has been used successfully to describe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Marcello Cacciato , Edo van Uitert , Henk Hoekstra

We present results from a comprehensive lensing analysis in HST data, of the complete CLASH cluster sample. We identify new multiple-images previously undiscovered allowing improved or first constraints on the cluster inner mass…

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

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies is a powerful tool for studying cosmology and galaxy structure. The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) will revolutionize this field by discovering up to $\sim$100,000 galaxy-scale strong lenses, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Hengyu Wu , Yun Chen , Tonghua Liu , Xiaoyue Cao , Tian Li , Hui Li , Nan Li , Ran Li , Tengpeng Xu

Extensive analyses of statistical strong gravitational lensing are performed based on the final Cosmic Lens All Sky Survey (CLASS) well-defined statistical sample of flat spectrum radio sources and current estimates of galaxy luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kyu-Hyun Chae

We investigate 3D density and weak lensing profiles of dark matter haloes predicted by a cosmology-rescaling algorithm for $N$-body simulations. We extend the rescaling method of Angulo & White (2010) and Angulo & Hilbert (2015) to improve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Malin Renneby , Stefan Hilbert , Raúl E. Angulo

Galaxy-galaxy lensing is a powerful probe of the relation between galaxies and dark matter halos, but its theoretical interpretation requires a careful modeling of various contributions, such as the contribution from central and satellite…

In this work we present relensing, a package written in python whose goal is to model galaxy clusters from gravitational lensing. With relensing we extend the amount of software available, which provides the scientific community with a wide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Daniel A. Torres-Ballesteros , Leonardo Castañeda

We study a sample of 39 massive early-type lens galaxies at redshift z < 0.3 to determine the slope of the average dark-matter density profile in the innermost regions. We keep the strong lensing and stellar population synthesis modeling as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-20 C. Grillo

In a recent publication, an aperture mass statistic for gravitational flexion was derived and shown to be effective, at least with simulated data, in detecting massive structures and substructures within clusters of galaxies. Further, it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Adrienne Leonard , Lindsay J. King

We examine the projected correlation of galaxies with mass from small scales (<few hundred kpc) where individual dark matter halos dominate, out to 15 Mpc where correlated large-scale structure dominates. We investigate these profiles as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ami Choi , J. Anthony Tyson , Chris B. Morrison , M. James Jee , Samuel J. Schmidt , Vera E. Margoniner , David M. Wittman

We introduce an analytic surface density profile for dark matter halos that accurately reproduces the structure of simulated halos of mass $M_{\rm vir} = 10^{7-11}\ M_\odot$, making it useful for modeling line-of-sight perturbers in strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-04 Alexandres Lazar , James S. Bullock , Anna Nierenberg , Leonidas Moustakas , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

We propose an Analytical method of Blind Separation (ABS) of cosmic magnification from the intrinsic fluctuations of galaxy number density in the observed galaxy number density distribution. The ABS method utilizes the different dependences…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-27 Xinjuan Yang , Jun Zhang , Yu Yu , Pengjie Zhang

We derive an accurate mass estimator for dispersion-supported stellar systems and demonstrate its validity by analyzing resolved line-of-sight velocity data for globular clusters, dwarf galaxies, and elliptical galaxies. Specifically, by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Joe Wolf , Gregory D. Martinez , James S. Bullock , Manoj Kaplinghat , Marla Geha , Ricardo R. Munoz , Joshua D. Simon , Frank F. Avedo

We present a reconstruction of the mass distribution of galaxy cluster Abell 1689 at z = 0.18 using detected strong lensing features from deep HST/ACS observations and extensive ground based spectroscopy. Earlier analyses have reported up…