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While dark matter (DM) makes up roughly 80% of the total matter in the Universe, its microscopic properties remain one of the biggest questions in Cosmology today. Fortunately, those properties dictate the distribution and form of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Michael N. Martinez

We investigate how central black holes (BHs) inhabited in galactic dark halos could affect strong gravitational lensing. The distribution of integral lensing probability with image separations are calculated for quasars of redshift 1.5 by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Da-Ming Chen

We study the abundance of substructure in the matter density near galaxies using ALMA Science Verification observations of the strong lensing system SDP.81. We present a method to measure the abundance of subhalos around galaxies using…

We build a simple analytical model for the bias of dark matter halos that applies to objects defined by an arbitrary density threshold, $200\leq\deltas\leq 1600$, and that provides accurate predictions from low-mass to high-mass halos. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Patrick Valageas

We study the effect of $f(R)$ gravity on the statistical properties of various large-scale structures which can be probed in weak gravitational lensing measurements. A set of ray-tracing simulations of gravitational lensing in $f(R)$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Yuichi Higuchi , Masato Shirasaki

The nature of dark matter (DM) is still debated. While cold DM (CDM) is the standard paradigm, warm DM (WDM) may ease some small-scale tensions in the $\Lambda$CDM framework. Line-intensity mapping (LIM) offers a novel probe of DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Elena Marcuzzo , Cristiano Porciani , Emilio Romano-Díaz , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Prachi Khatri , Matteo Viel

We present the full sample of measurements of the warm dust emission of 31 strongly-lensed, multiply imaged quasars, observed with JWST MIRI multiband imaging, which we use to constrain the particle properties of dark matter. The strongly…

We present a new approach to measure the mass function of dark matter halos and to discriminate models with differing values of Omega through weak gravitational lensing. We measure the distribution of peaks from simulated lensing surveys…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bhuvnesh Jain , Ludovic Van Waerbeke

We present a simple method to accurately infer line of sight (LOS) integrated lensing effects for galaxy scale strong lens systems through image reconstruction. Our approach enables us to separate weak lensing LOS effects from the main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-02 Simon Birrer , Cyril Welschen , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

We utilize the galaxy shape catalogue from the first-year data release of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-cam Survey (HSC) to study the dark matter content of galaxy groups in the Universe using weak lensing. We use galaxy groups from the Galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Divya Rana , Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake , Takahiro Nishimichi , Masahiro Takada , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Andrew M. Hopkins , Benne W. Holwerda

We use a high resolution $\Lambda$CDM numerical simulation to calculate the mass function of dark matter haloes down to the scale of dwarf galaxies, back to a redshift of fifteen, in a 50 $h^{-1}$Mpc volume containing 80 million particles.…

The gravitational wave (GW) signals from extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), a key target for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), will be affected in the presence of dark matter (DM) halos. In this paper we explore whether the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-14 Sara Gliorio , Emanuele Berti , Andrea Maselli , Nicholas Speeney

Weak lensing three-point statistics are powerful probes of the structure of dark matter halos. We propose to use the correlation of the positions of galaxies with the shapes of background galaxy pairs, known as the halo-shear-shear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida

Gravitational lensing observables, including anomalies in image positions, flux ratios, and time delays, serve as usual probes of dark matter (DM) substructure. When dark matter substructure possesses sufficient perturbations, it may lead…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Wenlin Hou , Jianxiang Liu , Kai Liao

Forthcoming measurements of the line-intensity mapping (LIM) power spectrum (PS) are expected to provide valuable constraints on astrophysical and cosmological quantities. We focus on the [CII] luminosity function (LF) at high redshift,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Elena Marcuzzo , Cristiano Porciani , Emilio Romano-Díaz , Prachi Khatri

Weak gravitational lensing has become an important tool to study the properties of dark matter halos around galaxies, thanks to the advent of large panoramic cameras on 4m class telescopes. This area of research has been developing rapidly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Henk Hoekstra

We explore the weak lensing effect by line-of-sight halos and sub-halos with a mass of M < 10^7 solar mass in QSO-galaxy strong lens systems with quadruple images in a concordant LCDM universe. Using a polynomially fitted non-linear power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Kaiki Taro Inoue , Ryuichi Takahashi

Compact dark matter has been efficiently constrained in the M <~ 10 M_sun mass range by null searches for microlensing of stars in nearby galaxies. Here we propose to probe the mass range M >~ 10 M_sun by seeking echoes in gamma-ray-burst…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Lingyuan Ji , Ely D. Kovetz , Marc Kamionkowski

Integral measures of weak gravitational lensing by dark-matter haloes, like the aperture mass, are sensitive to different physical halo properties dependent on the halo mass density profile. For isothermal profiles, the relation between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Matthias Bartelmann , Lindsay King , Peter Schneider