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The wolensing Python package offers a solution for gravitational wave lensing computations within the full wave-optics regime. This tool is primarily designed to calculate the gravitational lensing amplification factor including diffractive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-29 Simon M. C. Yeung , Mark H. Y. Cheung , Miguel Zumalacarregui , Otto A. Hannuksela

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

Gravitational lensing directly measures mass density fluctuations along the lines of sight to very distant objects. No assumptions need to be made concerning bias, the ratio of fluctuations in galaxy density to mass density. Hence, lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Wambsganss , Renyue Cen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We employ self-supervised representation learning to distill information from 76 million galaxy images from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Legacy Imaging Surveys' Data Release 9. Targeting the identification of new strong…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-23 George Stein , Jacqueline Blaum , Peter Harrington , Tomislav Medan , Zarija Lukic

Gravitational lensing has been identified as a powerful tool to address fundamental problems in astrophysics at different scales, ranging from exoplanet identification to dark energy and dark matter characterization in cosmology. Image…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-17 Andrés A. Plazas

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

We present a newly developed software package which implements a wide range of routines frequently used in Weak Gravitational Lensing (WL). With the continuously increasing size of the WL scientific community we feel that easy to use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-18 Andrea Petri

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

As established in previous papers of this series, observables in highly distorted and magnified multiple images caused by the strong gravitational lensing effect can be used to constrain the distorting properties of the gravitational lens…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Joyce Lin , Jenny Wagner , Richard E. Griffiths

Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for constraining substructure in the mass distribution of galaxies, be it from the presence of dark matter sub-halos or due to physical mechanisms affecting the baryons throughout galaxy evolution.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-28 Georgios Vernardos , Grigorios Tsagkatakis , Yannis Pantazis

We present MADLens a python package for producing non-Gaussian lensing convergence maps at arbitrary source redshifts with unprecedented precision. MADLens is designed to achieve high accuracy while keeping computational costs as low as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-18 Vanessa Böhm , Yu Feng , Max E. Lee , Biwei Dai

We describe a new open source package for calculating properties of galaxy clusters, including NFW halo profiles with and without the effects of cluster miscentering. This pure-Python package, cluster-lensing, provides well-documented and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Jes Ford , Jake VanderPlas

Gravitational Lensing is an efficient tool to probe: the mass distribution of collapsed systems: galaxies and clusters; high redshift objects thanks to the gravitational amplification; and the geometry of the Universe. I will review here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. -P. Kneib

We investigate gravitational lensing by a realistic model of disk galaxies. Most of the mass is contained in a large spherical isothermal dark matter halo, but the potential is modified significantly in the core by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ole Moeller , A. W. Blain

Gravitational lensing is a powerful astrophysical and cosmological probe and is particularly valuable at submillimeter wavelengths for the study of the statistical and individual properties of dusty starforming galaxies. However the…

Strong lenses are extremely useful probes of the distribution of matter on galaxy and cluster scales at cosmological distances, but are rare and difficult to find. The number of currently known lenses is on the order of 1,000. We wish to…

After exactly a century since the formulation of the general theory of relativity, the phenomenon of gravitational lensing is still an extremely powerful method for investigating in astrophysics and cosmology. Indeed, it is adopted to study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-25 Francesco De Paolis , Mosè Giordano , Gabriele Ingrosso , Luigi Manni , Achille Nucita , Francesco Strafella

Dark matter is an important ingredient of galaxies, as was recognised early on by Ken Freeman himself! Evidence for dark matter halos is still indirect, based on analysing motions of tracers such as gas and stars. In a sense the visible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Konrad Kuijken

Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for quantifying the mass content and distribution in distant galaxies. By using milliarcsecond angular resolution observations of radio-loud gravitationally lensed sources it is also possible to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 C. Spingola , J. P. McKean , A. Deller , J. Moldon