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A computer code is described for the simulation of gravitational lensing data. The code incorporates adaptive mesh refinement in choosing which rays to shoot based on the requirements of the source size, location and surface brightness…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-29 R. Benton Metcalf , Margarita Petkova

Although general relativity (GR) has been precisely tested at the solar system scale, precise tests at a galactic or cosmological scale are still relatively insufficient. Here, in order to test GR at the galactic scale, we use the newly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-07 Xiao-Hui Liu , Zhen-Hua Li , Jing-Zhao Qi , Xin Zhang

Multipole expansion of an incident radiation field - that is, representation of the fields as sums of vector spherical wavefunctions - is essential for theoretical light scattering methods such as the T-matrix method and generalised…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. A. Nieminen , H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop , N. R. Heckenberg

The meshless/meshfree radial basis function (RBF) method is a powerful technique for interpolating scattered data. But, solving large RBF interpolation problems without fast summation methods is computationally expensive. For RBF…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-27 Wei Zhao , Martin Stoll

We revise and extend the stochastic approach to cumulative weak lensing (hereafter the sGL method) first introduced in Ref. [1]. Here we include a realistic halo mass function and density profiles to model the distribution of mass between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-19 Kimmo Kainulainen , Valerio Marra

The long-range magnetic field is the most time-consuming part in micromagnetic simulations. Improvements both on a numerical and computational basis can relief problems related to this bottleneck. This work presents an efficient…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Pietro Palmesi , Lukas Exl , Florian Bruckner , Claas Abert , Dieter Suess

Lensing in a spherically symmetric and static spacetime is considered, based on the lightlike geodesic equation without approximations. After fixing two radius values r_O and r_S, lensing for an observation event somewhere at r_O and static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-23 Volker Perlick

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

Self-consistent multi-particle simulation plays an important role in studying beam-beam effects and space charge effects in high-intensity beams. The Poisson equation has to be solved at each time-step based on the particle density…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 J. Qiang , S. Paret

We develop a non--perturbative method that yields analytical expressions for the deflection angle of light in a general static and spherically symmetric metric. It is an improvement on a method previously devised by the authors, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Paolo Amore , Mayra Cervantes , Arturo De Pace , Francisco M. Fernandez

We describe and demonstrate the potential of a new and very efficient method for simulating certain classes of modified gravity theories, such as the widely studied $f(R)$ gravity models. High resolution simulations for such models are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-14 Sownak Bose , Baojiu Li , Alexandre Barreira , Jian-hua He , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Kazuya Koyama , Claudio Llinares , Gong-Bo Zhao

We present recent developments on numerical algorithms for computing photon and particle trajectories in the surrounding of compact objects. Strong gravity around neutron stars or black holes causes relativistic effects on the motion of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Fabio Bacchini , Bart Ripperda , Lorenzo Sironi

Accurate prediction of rarefied gas flows is important for space vehicle design, particularly in rarefied regimes where the Navier-Stokes equations are no more valid. While the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method acts as a numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-01 Joonbeom Kim , Eunji Jun

Cosmological simulation of gravitational weak lensing in open models is treated using the direct integration method, which is independent of the mult-lens-plane method. Statistical averages of optical quantuties (the convergencen shear and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kenji Tomita

We discuss in some details a novel algorithm for performing partial-sky spherical harmonic transforms (SHT), building on the Fourier-sphere method of Reinecke et al (2023) handling efficiently high numbers of arbitrary locations on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Julien Carron , Martin Reinecke

We develop the spacetime approach to gravitational lensing by spherically symmetric perturbations of flat, cosmological constant-dominated Friedman-Robertson-Walker metrics. The geodesics of the spacetime are expressed as integral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Thomas P. Kling , Sophia MacQueen Pooler

Simulated images are essential in algorithm development and instrument testing for optical telescopes. During real observations, images obtained by optical telescopes are affected by spatially variable point spread functions (PSFs), a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-17 Zeyu Bai , Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Xiang Zhang , Wennan Xiang , Lin Nie

A novel application of machine-learning (ML) based image processing algorithms is proposed to analyze an all-sky map (ASM) obtained using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. An attempt was made to simulate a one-year ASM from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Shogo Sato , Jun Kataoka , Soichiro Ito , Jun'ichi Kotoku , Masato Taki , Asuka Oyama , Takaya Toyoda , Yuki Nakamura , Marino Yamamoto

Cosmic Microwave Background lensing simulation by Taylor expansion has long been considered impractical due to slow convergence, but a recent flat-sky implementation shows that a simple trick eliminates this problem, making Taylor lensing a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-18 Sigurd K. Næss , Thibaut Louis

We introduce a numerical method that enables efficient modelling of light scattering by large, disordered ensembles of non-spherical particles incorporated in stratified media, including when the particles are in close vicinity to each…