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Weak gravitational lensing, the correlated distortion of background galaxy shapes by foreground structures, is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in our universe and allows accurate constraints on the cosmological model. In recent…

We present the first loss agent, dubbed LossAgent, for low-level image processing tasks, e.g., image super-resolution and restoration, intending to achieve any customized optimization objectives of low-level image processing in different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Bingchen Li , Xin Li , Yiting Lu , Zhibo Chen

Strong gravitational lensing can be used as a tool for constraining the substructure in the mass distribution of galaxies. In this study we investigate the power spectrum of dark matter perturbations in a population of 23 Hubble Space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-08 Joshua Fagin , Georgios Vernardos , Grigorios Tsagkatakis , Yannis Pantazis , Anowar J. Shajib , Matthew O'Dowd

Cosmic voids are an important probe of large-scale structure that can constrain cosmological parameters and test cosmological models. We present a new paradigm for void studies: void detection in weak lensing convergence maps. This approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Christopher T. Davies , Marius Cautun , Baojiu Li

As cosmological simulations and their associated software become increasingly complex, physicists face the challenge of searching through vast amounts of literature and user manuals to extract simulation parameters from dense academic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-21 Xiaowen Zhang , Zhenyu Bi , Patrick Lachance , Xuan Wang , Tiziana Di Matteo , Rupert A. C. Croft

Weak lensing provides a direct measure of the distribution of mass in the universe, and is therefore a uniquely powerful probe of dark matter. Weak lensing can also be used to measure the twin phenomenon of dark energy, via its effect upon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Massey , Alexandre Refregier , Jason Rhodes

Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to map directly the distribution of dark matter in the universe and to measure cosmological parameters. This cosmic-shear technique is based on the measurement of the weak distortions that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexandre Refregier

We present a multi-agent system for automation of scientific research tasks, cmbagent (https://github.com/CMBAgents/cmbagent). The system is formed by about 30 Large Language Model (LLM) agents and implements a Planning & Control strategy…

Studying the smallest self-bound dark matter structure in our Universe can yield important clues about the fundamental particle nature of dark matter. Galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing provides a unique way to detect and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Ana Diaz Rivero , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Cora Dvorkin

It is widely recognized that cold dark matter models predict abundant dark matter substructure in halos of all sizes. Galaxy-galaxy lensing provides a unique opportunity to directly measure the presence and the mass of such substructures in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Priyamvada Natarajan , Volker Springel

By directly probing mass distributions, gravitational lensing offers several new tests of the CDM paradigm. Lens statistics place upper limits on the dark matter content of elliptical galaxies. Galaxies built from CDM mass distributions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles R. Keeton

This study introduces "CosmoAgent," an innovative artificial intelligence system that utilizes Large Language Models (LLMs) to simulate complex interactions between human and extraterrestrial civilizations. This paper introduces a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zhaoqian Xue , Beichen Wang , Suiyuan Zhu , Kai Mei , Hua Tang , Wenyue Hua , Mengnan Du , Yongfeng Zhang

Magnification bias offers a uniquely powerful and independent route to cosmological information. As a gravitational-lensing observable, it probes galaxy-matter correlations without relying on galaxy shapes, PSF modelling, or…

Characterising the population and internal structure of sub-galactic halos is critical for constraining the nature of dark matter. These halos can be detected near galaxies that act as strong gravitational lenses with extended arcs, as they…

Weak gravitational lensing is a promising tool for the study of the mass distribution in the Universe. Here we report some partial results that show how lensing maps can be used to differentiate between cosmological models. We pay special…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonio C. C. Guimarães

We develop a novel statistical strong lensing approach to probe the cosmological parameters by exploiting multiple redshift image systems behind galaxies or galaxy clusters. The method relies on free-form mass inversion of strong lenses and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Lubini , M. Sereno , J. Coles , Ph. Jetzer , P. Saha

Gravitational lensing has emerged as a powerful probe of the matter distribution on subgalactic scales, which itself may contain important clues about the fundamental origins and properties of dark matter. Broadly speaking, two different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Charles R. Keeton , Leonidas A. Moustakas

Embodied agents for creative tasks like photography must bridge the semantic gap between high-level language commands and geometric control. We introduce PhotoAgent, an agent that achieves this by integrating Large Multimodal Models (LMMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Lirong Che , Zhenfeng Gan , Yanbo Chen , Junbo Tan , Xueqian Wang

As one of the probes of universe, strong gravitational lensing systems allow us to compare different cosmological models and constrain vital cosmological parameters. This purpose can be reached from the dynamic and geometry properties of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 C. C. Yuan , F. Y. Wang

Strong lensing systems, expected to be abundantly discovered by next-generation surveys, offer a powerful tool for studying cosmology and galaxy evolution. The connection between galaxy structure and cosmology through distance ratios…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Shuaibo Geng , Margherita Grespan , Hareesh Thuruthipilly , Sreekanth Harikumar , Agnieszka Pollo , Marek Biesiada