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Euclid: Early Release Observations. Weak gravitational lensing analysis of Abell 2390

The Euclid space telescope of the European Space Agency (ESA) is designed to provide sensitive and accurate measurements of weak gravitational lensing distortions over wide areas on the sky. Here we present a weak gravitational lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 T. Schrabback , G. Congedo , R. Gavazzi , W. G. Hartley , H. Jansen , Y. Kang , F. Kleinebreil , H. Atek , E. Bertin , J. -C. Cuillandre , J. M. Diego , S. Grandis , H. Hoekstra , M. Kümmel , L. Linke , H. Miyatake , N. Okabe , S. Paltani , M. Schefer , P. Simon , F. Tarsitano , A. N. Taylor , J. R. Weaver , R. Bhatawdekar , M. Montes , P. Rosati , S. Toft , B. Altieri , A. Amara , L. Amendola , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , P. Battaglia , R. Bender , A. Biviano , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , G. Cañas-Herrera , G. P. Candini , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , K. C. Chambers , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , A. Costille , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , H. Dole , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , S. Escoffier , M. Farina , R. Farinelli , S. Farrens , F. Faustini , S. Ferriol , F. Finelli , P. Fosalba , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , K. George , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , J. Gracia-Carpio , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , J. Hoar , W. Holmes , I. M. Hook , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , B. Joachimi , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , M. Kilbinger , B. Kubik , K. Kuijken , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , R. Laureijs , A. M. C. Le Brun , D. Le Mignant , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. J. Massey , S. Maurogordato , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , J. J. Mohr , A. Mora , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , R. C. Nichol , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , C. Rosset , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , M. Schirmer , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , M. Seiffert , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , A. Spurio Mancini , L. Stanco , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , I. Tereno , N. Tessore , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , F. M. Zerbi , E. Zucca , M. Bolzonella , C. Burigana , L. Gabarra , J. Martín-Fleitas , S. Matthew , A. Pezzotta , V. Scottez , M. Sereno , M. Viel , D. Scott

Combining Strong and Weak Gravitational Lensing in Abell 1689

We present a reconstruction of the mass distribution of galaxy cluster Abell 1689 at z = 0.18 using detected strong lensing features from deep HST/ACS observations and extensive ground based spectroscopy. Earlier analyses have reported up…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Limousin , J. Richard , E. Jullo , J. -P. Kneib , B. Fort , G. Soucail , A. Elíasdóttir , P. Natarajan , R. S. Ellis , I. Smail , O. Czoske , G. P. Smith , P. Hudelot , S. Bardeau , H. Ebeling , E. Egami , K. K. Knudsen

Euclid: Early Release Observations. A combined strong and weak lensing solution for Abell 2390 beyond its virial radius

Euclid is presently mapping the distribution of matter in the Universe in detail via the weak lensing (WL) signature of billions of distant galaxies. The WL signal is most prominent around galaxy clusters, and can extend up to distances…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 J. M. Diego , G. Congedo , R. Gavazzi , T. Schrabback , H. Atek , B. Jain , J. R. Weaver , Y. Kang , W. G. Hartley , G. Mahler , N. Okabe , J. B. Golden-Marx , M. Meneghetti , J. M. Palencia , M. Kluge , R. Laureijs , T. Saifollahi , M. Schirmer , C. Stone , M. Jauzac , D. Scott , B. Altieri , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , P. Battaglia , A. Biviano , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , G. Cañas-Herrera , G. P. Candini , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , K. C. Chambers , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , J. -C. Cuillandre , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , H. Dole , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , S. Escoffier , M. Farina , S. Farrens , F. Faustini , S. Ferriol , F. Finelli , P. Fosalba , N. Fourmanoit , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , K. George , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , J. Gracia-Carpio , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , J. Hoar , W. Holmes , I. M. Hook , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , B. Joachimi , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , M. Kilbinger , B. Kubik , K. Kuijken , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , A. M. C. Le Brun , D. Le Mignant , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. J. Massey , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Melchior , Y. Mellier , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , J. J. Mohr , A. Mora , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , R. C. Nichol , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , M. Seiffert , S. Serrano , P. Simon , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , N. Tessore , S. Toft , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , F. M. Zerbi , E. Zucca , M. Bolzonella , C. Burigana , L. Gabarra , J. Martín-Fleitas , S. Matthew , V. Scottez , M. Sereno , M. Viel

Weak Lensing analysis of Abell 2390 using short exposures

We present a weak lensing analysis of the galaxy cluster Abell 2390 at z = 0.23 using second moment shape measurements made in 411 short 60s exposures. The exposures are obtained in three broadband photometric filters (g, r, i) using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 A. Dutta , J. R. Peterson , T. Rose , M. Cianfaglione , A. Bonafede , G. Li , G. Sembroski

A Free-Form Lensing Grid Solution for A1689 with New Mutiple Images

Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the galaxy cluster Abell 1689 has revealed an exceptional number of strongly lensed multiply-imaged galaxies, including high-redshift candidates. Previous studies have used this data to obtain the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jose M. Diego , T. Broadhurst , N. Benitez , K. Umetsu , D. Coe , I. Sendra , M. Sereno , L. Izzo , G. Covone

An accurate strong lensing model of the Abell 2163 core

Abell 2163 at $z \simeq 0.201$ is one of the most massive galaxy clusters known, very likely in a post-merging phase. Data from several observational windows suggest a complex mass structure with interacting subsystems, which makes the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 U. Rescigno , C. Grillo , M. Lombardi , P. Rosati , G. B. Caminha , M. Meneghetti , A. Mercurio , P. Bergamini , D. Coe

Parametric Strong Gravitational Lensing Analysis of Abell 1689

(Abridged) We measure the mass distribution of galaxy cluster Abell 1689 within 0.3 Mpc/h_70 of the cluster centre using its strong lensing effect on 32 background galaxies. The multiple images are based on those of Broadhurst et al. 2005…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Halkola , S. Seitz , M. Pannella

New high-precision strong lensing modeling of Abell 2744. Preparing for JWST observations

We present a new strong lensing (SL) model of the Hubble Frontier Fields galaxy cluster Abell 2744, at z=0.3072, by exploiting archival Hubble Space Telescope (HST) multi-band imaging and Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) follow-up…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 P. Bergamini , A. Acebron , C. Grillo , P. Rosati , G. B. Caminha , A. Mercurio , E. Vanzella , G. Angora , G. Brammer , M. Meneghetti , M. Nonino

The Highest Resolution Mass Map of Galaxy Cluster Substructure To Date Without Assuming Light Traces Mass: LensPerfect Analysis of Abell 1689

We present a strong lensing mass model of Abell 1689 which resolves substructures ~25 kpc across (including about ten individual galaxy subhalos) within the central ~400 kpc diameter. We achieve this resolution by perfectly reproducing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-24 Dan Coe , Narciso Benitez , Tom Broadhurst , Leonidas Moustakas , Holland Ford

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- A preview of the Euclid era through a galaxy cluster magnifying lens

We present the first analysis of the Euclid Early Release Observations (ERO) program that targets fields around two lensing clusters, Abell 2390 and Abell 2764. We use VIS and NISP imaging to produce photometric catalogs for a total of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-30 H. Atek , R. Gavazzi , J. R. Weaver , J. M. Diego , T. Schrabback , N. A. Hatch , N. Aghanim , H. Dole , W. G. Hartley , S. Taamoli , G. Congedo , Y. Jimenez-Teja , J. -C. Cuillandre , E. Bañados , S. Belladitta , R. A. A. Bowler , M. Franco , M. Jauzac , G. Mahler , J. Richard , P. -F. Rocci , S. Serjeant , S. Toft , D. Abriola , P. Bergamini , A. Biviano , P. Dimauro , M. Ezziati , J. B. Golden-Marx , C. Grillo , A. C. N. Hughes , Y. Kang , J. -P. Kneib , M. Lombardi , G. A. Mamon , C. J. R. McPartland , M. Meneghetti , H. Miyatake , M. Montes , D. J. Mortlock , P. A. Oesch , N. Okabe , P. Rosati , A. N. Taylor , F. Tarsitano , J. Weller , M. Kluge , R. Laureijs , S. Paltani , T. Saifollahi , M. Schirmer , C. Stone , A. Mora , B. Altieri , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , A. Basset , R. Bender , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , G. P. Candini , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , A. M. Di Giorgio , J. Dinis , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , A. Ealet , M. Farina , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , S. Fotopoulou , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , S. Galeotta , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , P. Gómez-Alvarez , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , M. Hailey , S. V. H. Haugan , J. Hoar , H. Hoekstra , M. S. Holliman , W. Holmes , I. Hook , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , T. Kitching , R. Kohley , B. Kubik , K. Kuijken , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , O. Lahav , D. Le Mignant , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , S. Maurogordato , H. J. McCracken , S. Mei , Y. Mellier , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , R. C. Nichol , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , K. Paech , F. Pasian , J. A. Peacock , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , R. Saglia , D. Sapone , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. Skottfelt , L. Stanco , P. Tallada-Crespí , H. I. Teplitz , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , I. Tutusaus , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , E. Zucca , C. Baccigalupi , C. Burigana , G. Castignani , Z. Sakr , V. Scottez , M. Viel , P. Simon , D. Stern , J. Martín-Fleitas , D. Scott

RELICS: Strong Lensing analysis of the galaxy clusters Abell S295, Abell 697, MACS J0025.4-1222, and MACS J0159.8-0849

We present a strong-lensing analysis of four massive galaxy clusters imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope in the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey. We use a Light-Traces-Mass technique to uncover sets of multiply images and constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Nathália Cibirka , Ana Acebron , Adi Zitrin , Dan Coe , Irene Agulli , Felipe Andrade-Santos , Maruša Bradač , Brenda Frye , Rachael C. Livermore , Guillaume Mahler , Brett Salmon , Keren Sharon , Michele Trenti , Keiichi Umetsu , Roberto Avila , Larry Bradley , Daniela Carrasco , Catherine Cerny , Nicole G. Czakon , William A. Dawson , Austin T. Hoag , Kuang-Han Huang , Traci L. Johnson , Christine Jones , Shotaro Kikuchihara , Daniel Lam , Lorenzo Lovisari , Ramesh Mainali , Pascal A. Oesch , Sara Ogaz , Masami Ouchi , Matthew Past , Rachel Paterno-Mahler , Avery Peterson , Russell E. Ryan , Irene Sendra-Server , Daniel P. Stark , Victoria Strait , Sune Toft , Benedetta Vulcani

The GLASS-JWST Early Release Science Program. III. Strong lensing model of Abell 2744 and its infalling regions

We present a new high-precision, JWST-based, strong lensing model for the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 at $z=0.3072$. By combining the deep, high-resolution JWST imaging from the GLASS-JWST and UNCOVER programs and a Director's Discretionary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Pietro Bergamini , Ana Acebron , Claudio Grillo , Piero Rosati , Gabriel Bartosch Caminha , Amata Mercurio , Eros Vanzella , Charlotte Mason , Tommaso Treu , Giuseppe Angora , Gabriel B. Brammer , Massimo Meneghetti , Mario Nonino , Kristan Boyett , Marusa Bradac , Marco Castellano , Adriano Fontana , Takahiro Morishita , Diego Paris , Gonzalo Prieto-Lyon , Guido Roberts-Borsani , Namrata Roy , Paola Santini , Benedetta Vulcani , Xin Wang , Lilan Yang

The Cluster Lensing and Supernova Survey with Hubble (CLASH): Strong Lensing Analysis of Abell 383 from 16-Band HST WFC3/ACS Imaging

We examine the inner mass distribution of the relaxed galaxy cluster Abell 383 in deep 16-band HST/ACS+WFC3 imaging taken as part of the CLASH multi-cycle treasury program. Our program is designed to study the dark matter distribution in 25…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-13 A. Zitrin , T. Broadhurst , D. Coe , K. Umetsu , M. Postman , N. Benítez , M. Meneghetti , E. Medezinski , S. Jouvel , L. Bradley , A. Koekemoer , W. Zheng , H. Ford , J. Merten , D. Kelson , O. Lahav , D. Lemze , A. Molino , M. Nonino , M. Donahue , P. Rosati , A. Van der Wel , M. Bartelmann , R. Bouwens , O. Graur , G. Graves , O. Host , L. Infante , S. Jha , Y. Jimenez-Teja , R. Lazkoz , D. Maoz , C. McCully , P. Melchior , L. A. Moustakas , S. Ogaz , B. Patel , E. Regoes , A. Riess , S. Rodney , S. Seitz

X-ray analysis and matter distribution in the lens-cluster Abell 2390

We present a deep X-ray ROSAT/HRI observation of the rich cluster-lens Abell 2390 and the analysis of the gas and matter distribution in the cluster. The X-ray centroid coincides with the location of the central cD galaxy, and the core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Pierre , J. F. Le Borgne , G. Soucail , J. P. Kneib

Gravitational Shear, Flexion and Strong Lensing in Abell 1689

We present a gravitational lensing analysis of the galaxy cluster Abell 1689, incorporating measurements of the weak shear, flexion, and strong lensing induced in background galaxies. This is the first time that a shapelet technique has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Adrienne Leonard , David M. Goldberg , Jason L. Haaga , Richard Massey

Abell 370 revisited: refurbished Hubble imaging of the first strong lensing cluster

We present a strong lensing analysis of the galaxy cluster Abell 370 (z=0.375) based on the recent multicolor ACS images obtained as part of the Early Release Observation (ERO) that followed the Hubble Service Mission #4. Back in 1987, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Johan Richard , Jean-Paul Kneib , Marceau Limousin , Alastair Edge , Eric Jullo

Strong and weak lensing analysis of cluster Abell 2219 based on optical and near infrared data

We present a gravitational lensing study of the massive galaxy cluster A2219 (redshift 0.22). This investigation is based on multicolour images from U through H, which allows photometric redshifts to be estimated for the background sources.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Bezecourt , H. Hoekstra , M. E. Gray , H. M. AbdelSalam , K. Kuijken , R. S. Ellis

Mass and Light of Abell 370: A Strong and Weak Lensing Analysis

We present a new gravitational lens model of the Hubble Frontier Fields cluster Abell 370 ($z = 0.375$) using imaging and spectroscopy from Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based spectroscopy. We combine constraints from a catalog of 1344…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 Victoria Strait , Marusa Bradac , Austin Hoag , Kuang-Han Huang , Tommaso Treu , Xin Wang , Ricardo Amorin , Marco Castellano , Adriano Fontana , Brian Lemaux , Emiliano Merlin , Kasper B. Schmidt , Tim Schrabback , Adam Tomczack , Michele Trenti , Benedetta Vulcani

CLASH-VLT: A Highly Precise Strong Lensing Model of the Galaxy Cluster RXC J2248.7-4431 (Abell S1063) and Prospects for Cosmography

We perform a comprehensive study of the total mass distribution of the galaxy cluster RXCJ2248 ($z=0.348$) with a set of high-precision strong lensing models, which take advantage of extensive spectroscopic information on many multiply…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 G. B. Caminha , C. Grillo , P. Rosati , I. Balestra , W. Karman , M. Lombardi , A. Mercurio , M. Nonino , P. Tozzi , A. Zitrin , A. Biviano , M. Girardi , A. M. Koekemoer , P. Melchior , M. Meneghetti , E. Munari , S. H. Suyu , K. Umetsu , M. Annunziatella , S. Borgani , T. Broadhurst , K. I. Caputi , D. Coe , C. Delgado-Correal , S. Ettori , A. Fritz , B. Frye , R. Gobat , C. Maier , A. Monna , M. Postman , B. Sartoris , S. Seitz , E. Vanzella , B. Ziegler

An improved Magellan weak lensing analysis of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744

We present a new weak lensing analysis of the Hubble Frontier Fields galaxy cluster Abell 2744 ($z$ = 0.308) using new Magellan/MegaCam multi-band $gri$ imaging data. We carry out our study by applying brand-new PSF and shape measurement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Davide Abriola , Daniele Della Pergola , Marco Lombardi , Pietro Bergamini , Mario Nonino , Claudio Grillo , Piero Rosati