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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

A point spread function (PSF) describes the distribution of light for a pure point source in an astronomical image due to the optics of the instrument. An accurate PSF is key for deconvolution, point source photometry and source removal.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 Ava Polzin

When traveling from their source to the observer, gravitational waves can get deflected by massive objects along their travel path. When the lens is massive enough and the source aligns closely with the line-of-sight to the lens, the wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-28 Justin Janquart , Anupreeta More , Chris Van Den Broeck

High precision cosmology with weak gravitational lensing requires a precise measure of the Point Spread Function across the imaging data where the accuracy to which high spatial frequency variation can be modelled is limited by the stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Catherine Heymans , Barnaby Rowe , Henk Hoekstra , Lance Miller , Thomas Erben , Thomas Kitching , Ludovic Van Waerbeke

The convolution of galaxy images by the point-spread function (PSF) is the dominant source of bias for weak gravitational lensing studies, and an accurate estimate of the PSF is required to obtain unbiased shape measurements. The PSF…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Martin Eriksen , Henk Hoekstra

To recognize gravitational wave lensing events and being able to differentiate between similar lens models will be of crucial importance once one will be observing several lensing events of gravitational waves per year. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-03 Paolo Cremonese , David F. Mota , Vincenzo Salzano

We investigate light propagation in the gravitational field of multiple gravitational lenses. Assuming these lenses are sufficiently spaced to prevent interaction, we consider a linear alignment for the transmitter, lenses, and receiver.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-13 Slava G. Turyshev

The interaction between refraction from a distribution of inhomogeneous plasma and gravitational lensing introduces novel effects to the paths of light rays passing by a massive object. The plasma contributes additional terms to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Adam Rogers

Weak gravitational lensing, or weak lensing, is one of the most powerful probes for dark matter and dark energy science, although it faces increasing challenges in controlling systematic uncertainties as \edit{the statistical errors become…

The gravitational waves (GWs) has been a topic of interest for its versatile capabilities of probing several aspects of cosmology and early Universe. Gravitational lensing enhances further the extent of this sort of waves and upgrade our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-20 Ashadul Halder , Shibaji Banerjee , Debasish Majumdar

We explore the impact of corrections to the propagation on the waveforms of gravitationally lensed gravitational waves under the geometrical optics approximation, focusing on both uniform cosmological modifications and local modifications…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-03 Hiroki Takeda , Takahiro Tanaka

We discuss the gravitational lensing of gravitational wave signals from coalescing binaries. We delineate the regime where wave effects are significant from the regime where geometric limit can be used. Further, we focus on the effect of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 Ashish Kumar Meena , J S Bagla

Accurate reconstruction of the spatial distributions of the Point Spread Function (PSF) is crucial for high precision cosmic shear measurements. Nevertheless, current methods are not good at recovering the PSF fluctuations of high spatial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-12 Tianhuan Lu , Jun Zhang , Fuyu Dong , Yingke Li , Dezi Liu , Liping Fu , Guoliang Li , Zuhui Fan

Aims:Calibrating the point spread function (PSF) is a fundamental part of weak gravitational lensing analyses. Even with corrected galaxy images, imperfect calibrations can introduce biases. We propose an analytical framework for…

Precise modeling of extended sources is a central challenge in modern optical engineering, laser physics, and computational lithography. Unlike ideal point sources or completely incoherent thermal radiation sources, real-world light sources…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-09 Rongqi Shang , Donglin Ma

We investigate imaging point sources with a monopole gravitational lens, such as the Solar Gravitational Lens in the geometric optics limit. We compute the light amplification of the lens used in conjunction with a telescope featuring a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Viktor T. Toth

Wave-optics phenomena in gravitational lensing occur when the signal's wavelength is commensurate to the gravitational radius of the lens. Although potentially detectable in lensed gravitational waves, fast radio bursts and pulsars,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-20 Hector Villarrubia-Rojo , Stefano Savastano , Miguel Zumalacárregui , Lyla Choi , Srashti Goyal , Liang Dai , Giovanni Tambalo

Point Spread Function (PSF) modeling is a central part of any astronomy data analysis relying on measuring the shapes of objects. It is especially crucial for weak gravitational lensing, in order to beat down systematics and allow one to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Joel Bergé , Sedona Price , Adam Amara , Jason Rhodes

We study gravitational lensing when plasma surrounds the lens. An extra deflection angle is induced by the plasma in addition to the deflection generated by gravity. An inhomogeneous plasma distribution generates a greater effect than a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Xinzhong Er , Shude Mao

A main science goal for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is to measure the cosmic shear signal from weak lensing to extreme accuracy. One difficulty, however, is that with the short exposure time ($\simeq$15 seconds) proposed, the…