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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 report the final results of the search for gravitationally lensed flat-spectrum radio sources found in the combination of CLASS (Cosmic Lens All Sky Survey) and JVAS (Jodrell-Bank VLA Astrometric Survey). VLA observations of 16,503…

Whereas considerable effort has been afforded in understanding the properties of galaxies, a full physical picture, connecting their baryonic and dark-matter content, super-massive black holes, and (metric) theories of gravity, is still…

Observations of the large-scale structure (LSS) implicitly assume an ideal FLRW observer with the ambient structure having no influence on the observer. However, due to correlations in the LSS, cosmological observables are dependent on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-05 Robert Reischke , Björn malte Schäfer , Krzysztof Bolejko , Geraint F. Lewis , Max Lautsch

Strong lensing has developed into an important astrophysical tool for probing both cosmology and galaxies (their structure, formation, and evolution). Using the gravitational lensing theory and cluster mass distribution model, we try to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shuo Cao , Yu Pan , Marek Biesiada , Wlodzimierz Godlowski , Zong-Hong Zhu

Context: The number of known strong gravitational lenses is expected to grow substantially in the next few years. The statistical combination of large samples of lenses has the potential of providing strong constraints on the inner…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-07 Alessandro Sonnenfeld , Marius Cautun

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) surveys provide insight into the matter distribution over an extensive range of scales. Current WL results are in mild tension with cosmic microwave background measurements from the early Universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-07 Jeger C. Broxterman , Konrad Kuijken

We measure the weak lensing shear around galaxy troughs, i.e. the radial alignment of background galaxies relative to underdensities in projections of the foreground galaxy field over a wide range of redshift in Science Verification data…

The use of large, X-ray selected galaxy cluster catalogues for cosmological analyses requires a thorough understanding of the X-ray mass estimates. Weak gravitational lensing is an ideal method to shed light on such issues, due to its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Melanie Simet , Nicholas Battaglia , Rachel Mandelbaum , Uroš Seljak

We use numerical simulations of ray tracing through N-body simulations to investigate weak lensing by large-scale structure. These are needed for testing the analytic predictions of two-point correlators, to set error estimates on them and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bhuvnesh Jain , Uros Seljak , Simon White

The statistics of peaks in weak gravitational lensing maps is a promising technique to constrain cosmological parameters in present and future surveys. Here we investigate its power when using general extreme value statistics which is very…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-12 Robert Reischke , Matteo Maturi , Matthias Bartelmann

In this paper we introduce the SEAGLE (i.e. Simulating EAGLE LEnses) program, that approaches the study of galaxy formation through strong gravitational lensing, using a suite of high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations, Evolution and…

Upcoming deep optical surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will scan the sky to unprecedented depths, detecting billions of galaxies. However, this amount of detections will lead to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Manon Ramel , Cyrille Doux , Marine Kuna

Compact radio sources have been observed to undergo large, frequency dependent changes in intensity due to lensing by structures in the interstellar medium, in so-called "extreme scattering events" (ESEs). While the study of astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Dylan L. Jow , Ue-Li Pen

Weak gravitational lensing is a unique probe of the dark side of the universe: it provides a direct way to map the distribution of dark matter around galaxies, clusters of galaxies and on cosmological scales. Furthermore, the measurement of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-07 Henk Hoekstra , Bhuvnesh Jain

Future weak lensing surveys will directly probe the clustering of dark matter, in addition to providing a test for various cosmological models. Recent studies have provided us with the tools which can be used to construct the complete…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dipak Munshi , Yun Wang

We present a field-based signal extraction of weak lensing from noisy observations on the curved and masked sky. We test the analysis on a simulated Euclid-like survey, using a Euclid-like mask and noise level. To make optimal use of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-09 A. Loureiro , L. Whiteway , E. Sellentin , J. S. Lafaurie , A. H. Jaffe , A. F. Heavens

Utilizing the James Webb Space Telescope Early Release NIRCam Observations, we perform a weak-lensing analysis of the massive galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327 ($z=0.39$). We investigate the spatial variation of the PSF from the stars in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-16 Kyle Finner , Andreas Faisst , Ranga-Ram Chary , M. James Jee

We present a comprehensive full-sky 3-dimensional analysis of the weak-lensing fields and their corresponding power spectra. Using the formalism of spin-weight spherical harmonics and spherical Bessel functions, we relate the two-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Castro , A. F. Heavens , T. D. Kitching