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It is known that a relative translational motion between the deflector and the observer affects gravitational lensing. In this paper, a lens equation is obtained to describe such effects on actual lensing observables. Results can be easily…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Sereno

Gravitational lensing provides an efficient tool for the investigation of matter structures, independent of the dynamical or hydrostatic equilibrium properties of the deflecting system. However, it depends on the kinematic status. In fact,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Sereno

Strong gravitational lenses come in many forms, but are typically divided into two populations: galaxies, and groups and clusters of galaxies. The largest objects in the Universe (i.e. galaxy clusters) are highly irregular and composed of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-17 Luka Vujeva , Jose María Ezquiaga , Rico K. L. Lo , Juno C. L. Chan

While most strong-gravitational-lensing systems may be roughly modelled by a single massive object between the source and the observer, in the details all the structures near the light path contribute to the observed images. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-01 Pierre Fleury , Julien Larena , Jean-Philippe Uzan

Machine learning has emerged as a popular and powerful approach for solving problems in astrophysics. We review applications of machine learning techniques for the analysis of ground-based gravitational-wave detector data. Examples include…

Gravity inversion is the problem of estimating subsurface density distributions from observed gravitational field data. We consider the two-dimensional (2D) case, in which recovering density models from one-dimensional (1D) measurements…

This work reviews the basic theoretical aspects, the main observational evidences and the recent applications of gravitational lensing in the Universe. The article is aimed particularly at providing the readers who don't work on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiang-Ping Wu

In a gravitational lensing system, the relative transverse velocities of the lens, source, and observer induce a frequency shift in the observed radiation. While this shift is typically negligible in most astrophysical contexts, strategies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Mikołaj Korzyński , Mateusz Kulejewski

The Faraday rotation measurements of multiply-imaged gravitational lens systems can be effectively used to probe the existence of large-scale ordered magnetic fields in lensing galaxies and galaxy clusters. The available sample of lens…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 D. Narasimha , S. M. Chitre

Gravitational lens models with negative convergence(surface mass density projected onto the lens plane) inspired by modified gravity theories, exotic matter and energy have been recently discussed in such a way that a static and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Koji Izumi , Chisaki Hagiwara , Koki Nakajima , Takao Kitamura , Hideki Asada

Luminous tracers have been used extensively to map the large-scale matter distribution in the Universe. Similarly the dynamics of stars or galaxies can be used to estimate masses of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. However, assumptions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-25 H. Hoekstra

For the first detection of a novel astrophysical phenomenon, scientific standards are particularly high. Especially in a multi-messenger context, there are also opportunity costs to follow-up observations on any detection claims. So in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-06 David Keitel

After a short summary of our bimetric model of the Universe, an exact nonlinear solution is built, which demonstrates the existence of solutions for our two coupled field equations system. In addition to the classical positive gravitational…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-08 Jean-Pierre Petit , Gilles d'Agostini

Observational measurements of the relationship between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the properties of their host galaxies are an important method for probing theoretical hierarchical growth models. Gravitational lensing is a unique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Judd D. Bowman , Jacqueline N. Hewitt , James R. Kiger

Strong gravitational lensing is a unique observational tool for studying the dark and luminous mass distribution both within and between galaxies. Given the presence of substructures, current strong lensing observations demand more complex…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Luca Biggio , Georgios Vernardos , Aymeric Galan , Austin Peel

The gravitational lensing of gravitational waves might cause beat patterns detectable by interferometers. The feature of this kind of signal is the existence of the beat pattern in the early inspiral phase, followed by a seemingly randomly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-10 Shaoqi Hou , Xi-Long Fan , Kai Liao , Zong-Hong Zhu

Gravitational lensing is a fundamental tool for cosmology. A recent instrument which will provide more information for models of these objects is ALMA. Our goal is to select lens candidates to observe with ALMA and then model them using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-05 A. Bonilla , O. Toloza , I. Fuentes , V. Motta

The combination of deep exposures and high resolution offered by telescopes in space allows the detection of lensing over a wide range of source redshifts and lens masses. As an example, we model a lens candidate found in the southern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rennan Barkana , David Hogg , Abraham Loeb , Roger Blandford

Weak gravitational lensing is the slight distortion of galaxy shapes caused primarily by the gravitational effects of dark matter in the universe. In our work, we seek to invert the weak lensing signal from 2D telescope images to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Brandon Zhao , Aviad Levis , Liam Connor , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Katherine L. Bouman

The analysis of optical images of galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing systems can provide important information about the distribution of dark matter at small scales. However, the modeling and statistical analysis of these images is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Adam Coogan , Konstantin Karchev , Christoph Weniger