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Gravitational lensing is the phenomenon arising when light rays are deflected by the mass between the source and the observer. Largely magnified and highly distorted images of background galaxies are formed by these angular deflections if…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Atınç Çağan Şengül

Gravitational lensing has become one of the most powerful tools available for investigating the 'dark side' of the universe. Cosmological strong gravitational lensing, in particular, probes the properties of the dense cores of dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-30 Nan Li , Michael D. Gladders , Esteban M. Rangel , Michael K. Florian , Lindsey E. Bleem , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Patricia Fasel

Gravitational lensing refers to the deflection of light by the gravity of celestial bodies, often predominantly composed of dark matter. Seen through a gravitational lens, the images of distant galaxies appear distorted. In this paper we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Hans Georg Schaatun , Ben David Normann , Einar Leite Austnes , Simon Ingebrigtsen , Sondre Westbø Remøy , Simon Nedreberg Runde

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

Gravitational lensing in clusters of galaxies is an efficient tool to probe the mass distribution of galaxies and clusters, high redshift objects thanks to the gravitational amplification, and the geometry of the universe. We review some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Hattori , J. -P. Kneib , N. Makino

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

Dark matter caustics have specific density profiles and, therefore, precisely calculable gravitational lensing properties. We present a formalism which simplifies the relevant calculations, and apply it to four specific cases. In the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Charmousis , V. Onemli , Z. Qiu , P. Sikivie

Automated searches for strong gravitational lensing in optical imaging survey datasets often employ machine learning and deep learning approaches. These techniques require more example systems to train the algorithms than have presently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-08 Robert Morgan , Brian Nord , Simon Birrer , Joshua Yao-Yu Lin , Jason Poh

Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool to detect compact matter on very different mass scales. Of particular importance is the fact that lensing is sensitive to both luminous and dark matter alike. Depending on the mass scale, all lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Wambsganss

A standard method to study the mass distribution in galaxy clusters is through strong lensing of background galaxies in which the positions of multiple images of the same source constrain the surface mass distribution of the cluster.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-26 Ole Host

Gravitational lensing has become one of the most interesting tools to study the mass distribution in the Universe. Since gravitational light deflection is independent of the nature and state of the matter, it is ideally suited to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Schneider

Gravitational lensing is brightening of background objects due to deflection of light by foreground sources. Rich clusters of galaxies are very effective lenses because they are centrally concentrated. Such natural Gravitational Telescopes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Margarita Safonova

Gravitational lensing is the relativistic effect generated by massive bodies, which bend the space-time surrounding them. It is a deeply investigated topic in astrophysics and allows validating theoretical relativistic results and studying…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-26 Nicolò Oreste Pinciroli Vago , Piero Fraternali

Strong gravitational lensing, which can make a background source galaxy appears multiple times due to its light rays being deflected by the mass of one or more foreground lens galaxies, provides astronomers with a powerful tool to study…

Gravitational lensing occurs as the path of light from distant celestial bodies is distorted due to gravitational attraction by other celestial bodies, whose mass is partly invisible, being so-called dark matter. When observed through a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Hans Georg Schaathun , Ben David Normann , Kenny Solevåg-Hoti

In this work are reviewed several aspects of gravitational lensing produced by astrophysical bodies that strongly curve the spacetime in their vicinity. When an object with a photon sphere (e.g. a black hole) is interposed between a source…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-15 Ernesto F. Eiroa

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

Gravitational lensing represents a powerful tool to estimate the cosmological pa- rameters and the distribution of dark matter. I will describe the main observable quantities, concentrating on strong lensing, that manifests its effect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Tortora

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…

Clusters of galaxies are the most recently assembled, massive, bound structures in the Universe. As predicted by General Relativity, given their masses, clusters strongly deform space-time in their vicinity. Clusters act as some of the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-06 Jean-Paul Kneib , Priyamvada Natarajan
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