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Galaxy clusters are one of the most powerful probes to study extensions of General Relativity and the Standard Cosmological Model. Upcoming surveys like the Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time are expected to…

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We present high-resolution mass reconstructions for five massive cluster-lenses spanning a redshift range from $z = 0.18$--0.57 utilising archival {\it Hubble Space Telescope} ({\it HST}) data and applying galaxy-galaxy lensing techniques.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Priyamvada Natarajan , Gabriella De Lucia , Volker Springel

We present GLIMPSE - Gravitational Lensing Inversion and MaPping with Sparse Estimators - a new algorithm to generate density reconstructions in three dimensions from photometric weak lensing measurements. This is an extension of earlier…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Adrienne Leonard , François Lanusse , Jean-Luc Starck

We present CLUMI+, a self-consistent, multiprobe methodology for reconstructing the mass distribution in and around galaxy clusters by combining gravitational lensing and dynamical observations. Building on the joint likelihood framework of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-06 Keiichi Umetsu , Michele Pizzardo , Antonaldo Diaferio , Margaret J. Geller

Galaxy clustering is a sensitive probe of the expansion history and growth of structure of the universe, and key degeneracies can be broken by combining these data with measurements of cosmic shear and galaxy-galaxy lensing (a so-called…

We propose a new approach for measuring the mass profile and shape of groups and clusters of galaxies, which uses lensing magnification of distant background galaxies. The main advantage of lensing magnification is that, unlike lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Jes Ford , Martha Milkeraitis

Hydrodynamical simulations play a fundamental role in modern cosmological research, serving as a crucial bridge between theoretical predictions and observational data. However, due to their computational intensity, these simulations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Andrés Caro , Daniel de Andres , Weiguang Cui , Gustavo Yepes , Marco De Petris , Antonio Ferragamo , Félicien Schiltz , Amélie Nef

The different regimes of gravitational lensing constitutes an interesting tool in order to map the mass distribution in galaxy clusters on different scales. In this proceedings article, I review some work I have performed on this topic.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-18 Marceau Limousin

We present a novel method to recontruct the mass distribution of galaxy clusters from their gravitational lens effect on background galaxies. The method is based on a least-chisquare fit of the two-dimensional gravitational cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Matthias Bartelmann , Ramesh Narayan , Stella Seitz , Peter Schneider

The current weak lensing measurements of the large scale structure are mostly related to statistical study of background galaxy ellipticities. We consider a possibility to extend lensing studies with intrinsically unresolved sources and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Asantha Cooray

Weak gravitational lensing induces flux dependent fluctuations in the observed galaxy number density distribution. This cosmic magnification (magnification bias) effect in principle enables lensing reconstruction alternative to cosmic shear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Ruijie Ma , Pengjie Zhang , Yu Yu , Jian Qin

Cold dark matter (CDM) constitutes most of the matter in the Universe. The interplay between dark and luminous matter in dense cosmic environments like galaxy clusters is studied theoretically using cosmological simulations. Observed…

Cluster-scale strong lensing is a powerful tool for exploring the properties of dark matter and constraining cosmological models. However, due to the complex parameter space, pixelized strong lens modeling in galaxy clusters is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Yushan Xie , Huanyuan Shan , Nan Li , Ran Li , Eric Jullo , Chen Su , Xiaoyue Cao , Jean-Paul Kneib , Ana Acebron , Mengfan He , Ji Yao , Chunxiang Wang , Jiadong Li , Yin Li

All lens modeling methods, simply-parametrized, hybrid, and free-form, use assumptions to reconstruct galaxy clusters with multiply imaged sources, though the nature of these assumptions (priors) can differ considerably between methods.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-15 Kekoa Lasko , Liliya L. R. Williams , Agniva Ghosh

Current catalogues of open clusters are rather heterogeneous and incomplete lists of clusters than true catalogues. Before there has been no attempts of automatic search for open clusters in huge photometric catalogues using homogeneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan Zolotukhin , Sergey Koposov , Elena Glushkova

Clusters of galaxies, being the largest collapsed structures in the universe, offer valuable insights into the nature of cosmic evolution. Precise calibration of the mass of clusters can be obtained by extracting their gravitational lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Sayan Saha , Louis Legrand , Julien Carron

We present a reconstructions of galaxy-cluster-scale mass distributions from simulated gravitational lensing data sets including strong lensing, weak lensing shear, and measurements of quadratic image distortions -- flexion. The lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Benjamin Cain , Marusa Bradac , Rebecca Levinson

Measurement of the gravitational distortion of images of distant galaxies is rapidly becoming established as a powerful probe of the dark mass distribution in clusters of galaxies. With the advent of large mosaics of CCD's these methods…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nick Kaiser , Gordon Squires , Greg Fahlman , David Woods , Tom Broadhurst

Galaxy cluster surveys are power tools for studying the dark energy. In principle, the equation of state parameter w of the dark energy and its time evolution can be extracted from large solid angle, high yield surveys that deliver tens of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joseph J Mohr

We review recent advancements in cosmology with galaxy clusters. Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the Universe. Consequently the cluster number density as a function of cluster mass, or cluster abundance, is sensitive to…

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