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In this paper, we describe a procedure for modelling strong lensing galaxy clusters with parametric methods, and to rank models quantitatively using the Bayesian evidence. We use a publicly available Markov chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) sampler…

We investigate lensing reconstruction using the clustered galaxy distribution as a source field, using both the traditional cosmic microwave background quadratic estimator and a shear-only estimator. We calculate the expected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Brandon Buncher , Gilbert Holder , Selim Hotinli

We present a new method for joint cosmological parameter inference and cluster mass calibration from a combination of weak lensing measurements and the abundance of thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) selected galaxy clusters. We combine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Andrina Nicola , Jo Dunkley , David N. Spergel

Galaxy clusters enable unique opportunities to study cosmology, dark matter, galaxy evolution, and strongly-lensed transients. We here present a new cluster-finding algorithm, CluMPR (Clusters from Masses and Photometric Redshifts), that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 M. J. Yantovski-Barth , Jeffrey A. Newman , Biprateep Dey , Brett H. Andrews , Michael Eracleous , Jesse Golden-Marx , Rongpu Zhou

The Multi-Channel Imager (MCI), one of the instruments aboard the China Survey Space Telescope (CSST), is designed to simultaneously observe the sky in three filters, covering wavelengths from the near-ultraviolet (NUV) to the near-infrared…

Galaxy cluster mergers are representative of a wide range of physics, making them an excellent probe of the properties of dark matter and the ionized plasma of the intracluster medium. To date, most studies have focused on mergers occurring…

We use high-precision kinematic and lensing measurements of the total mass profile of the dynamically relaxed galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2-0847 at $z=0.44$ to estimate the value of the ratio $\eta=\Psi/\Phi$ between the two scalar potentials…

The distinction between weak and strong lensing is somewhat arbitrary, and both regimes are manifestations of the same physical phenomenon: gravity bending the path of light. Nevertheless, these two regimes have to a large extent been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Ben David Normann , Kenny Solevåg-Hoti , Hans Georg Schaathun

The reconstruction of the density profile in clusters of galaxies from the distortion of the images of faint background galaxies is reconsidered. The inversion formula of Kaiser \& Squires is known to provide a quantitative way to perform…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Schneider

We use gravitational lens models and X-ray spectral analysis of ten X-ray luminous galaxy clusters at z~0.2 to study the impact of cluster substructure on attempts to normalize the matter power spectrum. We estimate that unrelaxed clusters…

Gravitational lensing magnification is measured with a significance of 9.7 sigma on a large sample of galaxy clusters in the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS). This survey covers ~154 deg^2 and contains over 18,000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Jes Ford , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Thomas Erben , Clotilde Laigle , Martha Milkeraitis , Christopher Morrison

Intrinsic variations of the projected density profiles of clusters of galaxies at fixed mass are a source of uncertainty for cluster weak lensing. We present a semi-analytical model to account for this effect, based on a combination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Gruen , S. Seitz , M. R. Becker , O. Friedrich , A. Mana

The abundance and mass distribution of galaxy clusters is a sensitive probe of cosmological parameters, through the sensitivity of the high-mass end of the halo mass function to $\Omega_m$ and $\sigma_8$. While galaxy cluster surveys have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 M. Regamey , D. Eckert , R. Seppi , W. Hartley , K. Umetsu , S. Tam , D. Gerolymatou

We present constraints on cosmic structure growth from the analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing with galaxies from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1. We analyze four samples drawn from the…

We present weak lensing mass estimates for a sample of 458 galaxy clusters from the redMaPPer Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR8 catalogue using Hyper Suprime-Cam weak lensing data. We develop a method to quickly estimate cluster masses from weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Calum Murray , James G. Bartlett , Emmanuel Artis , Jean-Baptiste Melin

Analysing the weak lensing distortions of the images of faint background galaxies provides a means to constrain the mass distribution of cluster galaxies and potentially to test the extent of their dark matter halos as a function of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Bernhard Geiger

Joint lensing and dynamical mass profile determinations of galaxy clusters are an excellent tool to constrain modification of gravity at cosmological scales. However, search for tiny departures from General Relativity calls for an accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 L. Pizzuti , B. Sartoris , S. Borgani , A. Biviano

We present a joint analysis of Chandra X-ray observations, Bolocam thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect observations, Hubble Space Telescope (HST) strong lensing data, and HST and Subaru Suprime-Cam weak lensing data. The multiwavelength…

We present a joint weak-lensing/X-ray study of galaxy cluster mass-observable scaling relations, motivated by the critical importance of accurate calibration of mass proxies for future X-ray missions, including eROSITA. We use a sample of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Nobuhiro Okabe , Yu-Ying Zhang , Alexis Finoguenov , Masahiro Takada , Graham P. Smith , Keiichi Umetsu , Toshifumi Futamase

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