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We investigate how strong gravitational lensing in the concordance LCDM cosmology is affected by the stellar mass in galaxies. We extend our previous studies, based on ray-tracing through the Millennium Simulation, by including the stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-23 Stefan Hilbert , Simon D. M. White , Jan Hartlap , Peter Schneider

Searches and analyses of strong gravitational lenses are challenging due to the rarity and image complexity of these astronomical objects. Next-generation surveys (both ground- and space-based) will provide more opportunities to derive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-18 Clecio Bom , Jason Poh , Brian Nord , Manuel Blanco-Valentin , Luciana Dias

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

We describe the simulation data produced by a pilot programme to compute mock weak gravitational lensing maps for a range of currently popular cosmological models by ray tracing through high-resolution N-body simulations. The programme…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin White , Chris Vale

For suitable gravitational lens systems with unknown lens redshifts, the redshifts and brightnesses (in different colours) of the lenses are predicted for a variety of cosmological models, for both elliptical and spiral galaxy lenses.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Phillip Helbig

We present 108 full-sky gravitational lensing simulation data sets generated by performing multiple-lens plane ray-tracing through high-resolution cosmological $N$-body simulations. The data sets include full-sky convergence and shear maps…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Ryuichi Takahashi , Takashi Hamana , Masato Shirasaki , Toshiya Namikawa , Takahiro Nishimichi , Ken Osato , Kosei Shiroyama

Gravitationally lensed Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) offer critical advantages over other lensed sources. They can be detected via continuously operating detectors covering most of the sky. They offer extremely high time resolution to determine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-27 A. J. Levan , B. P. Gompertz , G. P. Smith , M. E. Ravasio , G. P. Lamb , N. R. Tanvir

We give a non-exhaustive review of the use of strong gravitational lensing in placing constraints on the quantity of dark and visible mass in galaxies. We discuss development of the methodology and summarise some recent results.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Dye , Steve Warren

We present the results of weak gravitational lensing statistics in four different cosmological $N$-body simulations. The data has been generated using an algorithm for the three-dimensional shear, which makes use of a variable softening…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew J. Barber , Peter A. Thomas , H. M. P. Couchman , C. J. Fluke

Gravitational lensing has now become a popular tool to measure the mass distribution of structures in the Universe on various scales. Here we focus on the study of galaxy's scale dark matter halos with galaxy-galaxy lensing techniques:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Limousin , J-P. Kneib , P. Natarajan

We explore the discovery potential of light gravitino mass m_{3/2} by combining future cosmology surveys and collider experiments. The former probe the imprint of light gravitinos in the cosmic matter density field, whereas the latter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Ayuki Kamada , Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida

Strong gravitational lensing of gravitational wave sources offers a novel probe of both the lens galaxy and the binary source population. In particular, the strong lensing event rate and the time delay distribution of multiply-imaged…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Fei Xu , Jose Maria Ezquiaga , Daniel E. Holz

The gravitational lensing effect is one of the most promising tools for cosmology. Indeed it probes directly the total mass distribution in large-scale structures and can as well provide valuable informations on the values of the density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Mellier , L. van Waerbeke , F. Bernardeau , B. Fort

Gravitational lensing offers a powerful probe into the properties of dark matter and is crucial to infer cosmological parameters. The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is predicted to find O(10^5) gravitational lenses over the next…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 René Parlange , Juan C. Cuevas-Tello , Octavio Valenzuela , Omar de J. Cabrera-Rosas , Tomás Verdugo , Anupreeta More , Anton T. Jaelani

Gravitational lensing surveys have now become large and precise enough that the interpretation of the lensing signal has to take into account an increasing number of theoretical limitations and observational biases. Since the lensing signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Sanaz Vafaei , Ludovic Van Waerbeke

Gravitational lensing provides a means to measure mass that does not rely on detecting and analysing light from the lens itself. Compact objects are ideal gravitational lenses, because they have relatively large masses and are dim. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-15 A. J. Harding , R. Di Stefano , S. Lépine , J. Urama , D. Pham , C. Baker

Inferring spatial curvature of the Universe with high-fidelity is a longstanding interest in cosmology. However, the strong degeneracy between dark energy equation-of-state parameter $w$ and curvature density parameter $\Omega_{\rm K}$ has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-11 Yang Hu , Suhail Dhawan

As the interferometers detecting gravitational waves are upgraded, improving their sensitivity, the probability of observing strong lensing increases. Once a detection is made, it will be critical to gain as much information as possible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-31 Mick Wright , Justin Janquart , Martin Hendry

We employ self-supervised representation learning to distill information from 76 million galaxy images from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Legacy Imaging Surveys' Data Release 9. Targeting the identification of new strong…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-23 George Stein , Jacqueline Blaum , Peter Harrington , Tomislav Medan , Zarija Lukic

We present the latest version of the ray-tracing simulation code Skylens, which can be used to develop image simulations that reproduce strong lensing observations by any mass distribution with a high level of realism. Improvements of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-23 A. A. Plazas , M. Meneghetti , M. Maturi , J. Rhodes