English
Related papers

Related papers: The spherical Fast Multipole Method (sFMM) for Gra…

200 papers

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

We present a comprehensive methodology for the simulation of astronomical images from optical survey telescopes. We use a photon Monte Carlo approach to construct images by sampling photons from models of astronomical source populations,…

Consider the elastic scattering of a time-harmonic wave by multiple well separated rigid particles in two dimensions. To avoid using the complex Green's tensor of the elastic wave equation, we utilize the Helmholtz decomposition to convert…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Jun Lai , Peijun Li

Orbital-free density functional theory as an extension of traditional Thomas-Fermi theory has attracted a lot of interest in the past decade because of developments in both more accurate kinetic energy functionals and highly efficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Hong Jiang , Weitao Yang

The images of many distant galaxies are displaced, distorted and often multiplied by the presence of foreground massive galaxies near the line of sight; the foreground galaxies act as gravitational lenses. Commonly, the lens equation, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Simonetta Frittelli , Thomas P. Kling , Ezra T. Newman

In strong gravitational lens systems, the light bending is usually dominated by one main galaxy, but may be affected by other mass along the line of sight (LOS). Shear and convergence can be used to approximate the contributions from less…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-09 Curtis McCully , Charles R. Keeton , Kenneth C. Wong , Ann I. Zabludoff

We present a framework for the study of lensing in spherically symmetric spacetimes within the context of f(R) gravity. Equations for the propagation of null geodesics, together with an expression for the bending angle are derived for any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-25 Anne Marie Nzioki , Peter K. S. Dunsby , Rituparno Goswami , Sante Carloni

We describe three approaches for computing a gravity signal from a density anomaly. The first approach consists of the classical "summation" technique, whilst the remaining two methods solve the Poisson problem for the gravitational…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-05-30 Dave A. May , Matthew G. Knepley

In this paper, we present a fast boundary integral method accelerated by the fast multipole method (FMM) for acoustic wave scattering governed by the scalar Helmholtz equation in multi-layered two-dimensional media. Multiple scatterers are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Linfeng Xia , Heng Yuan , Bo Wang , Wei Cai

Aerosol injectors applied in single-particle diffractive imaging experiments demonstrated their potential in efficiently delivering nanoparticles with high density. Continuous optimization of injector design is crucial for achieving…

We present a new approach for fast calculation of gravitational lensing properties, including the lens potential, deflection angles, convergence, and shear, of elliptical Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) and Hernquist density profiles, by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Masamune Oguri

This paper is concerned with the error estimation of the fast multipole method (FMM) for scattering problems in 2-D. The FMM error is caused by truncating Graf's addition theorem in each step of the algorithm, including two expansions and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Wenhui Meng

(Abridged) Weak gravitational lensing induces distortions on the images of background galaxies, and thus provides a direct measure of mass fluctuations in the universe. Since the distortions induced by lensing on the images of background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David Bacon , Alexandre Refregier , Douglas Clowe , Richard Ellis

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) has been extensively studied in computer graphics to animate fluids with versatile effects. However, SPH still suffers from two numerical difficulties: the particle deficiency problem, which will…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Xiaowei He , Huamin Wang , Guoping Wang , Hongan Wang , Enhua Wu

A possible method to reconstruct the cosmic equation of state using strong gravitational lensing systems is proposed. The feasibility of the method is investigated by carrying out the reconstruction on the basis of a simple Monte-Carlo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Toshifumi Futamase

We are developing a general, unified, and rigorous analytical framework for using gravitational lensing by compact objects to test different theories of gravity beyond the weak-deflection limit. In this paper we present the formalism for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Charles R. Keeton , A. O. Petters

This paper is devoted to numerical simulation of a charged particle beam submitted to a strong oscillating electric field. For that, we consider a two-scale numerical approach as follows: we first recall the two-scale model which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-12-22 Alexandre Mouton

We emulate the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equations, including tidal deformability, for neutron stars using a new method based upon the Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD). This method, which we call Star Log-extended eMulation (SLM),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-12 Sudhanva Lalit , Alexandra C. Semposki , Joshua M. Maldonado

In this paper, we present a numerical algorithm for the accurate and efficient computation of the convolution of the frequency domain layered media Green's function with a given density function. Instead of compressing the convolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Min Hyung Cho , Jingfang Huang

We demonstrate a fast spin-s spherical harmonic transform algorithm, which is flexible and exact for band-limited functions. In contrast to previous work, where spin transforms are computed independently, our algorithm permits the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-22 K. M. Huffenberger , B. D. Wandelt
‹ Prev 1 8 9 10 Next ›