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The Planck Surveyor cosmic microwave background (CMB) imaging mission will make very sensitive maps of the whole sky at microwave, millimetre (mm) and sub-mm wavelengths. The steep source counts expected in the highest frequency Planck…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew W. Blain

We present a catalog of 25 definite and 11 probable strong galaxy-galaxy gravitational lens systems with redshifts 0.4 \lesssim z \lesssim 0.7, discovered spectroscopically by the presence of higher redshift emission-lines within the Baryon…

I give a brief overview of the current status of some aspects of the Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey (CLASS): description of the survey, current list of lens systems, cosmological parameters from lensing statistics, H_0 from time delays, dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Phillip Helbig

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) will measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background to search for and characterize the polarized signature of inflation. CLASS will operate from the Atacama Desert and observe…

(Abridged) We construct a catalog of radio sources detected by the GB6 (6 cm), FIRST and NVSS (20 cm), and WENSS (92 cm) radio surveys, and the SDSS optical survey. The 2.7 million entries in the publicly-available master catalog are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-16 Amy E. Kimball , Željko Ivezić

Galaxy cluster-scale strong gravitational lensing systems are rare yet valuable tools for investigating the properties of dark matter and dark energy, as well as providing the opportunity to study the distant universe at flux levels and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Zhejian Zhang , Nan Li , Shude Mao , Hu Zou , Zizhao He , Mingxiang Fu , Shenzhe Cui

Weak gravitational lensing has become a widely used effect to characterise the dark-matter distribution on large scales in the Universe by measuring galaxy ellipticities and their statistical correlations. We present the first weak…

Recent observations of galaxy clusters with the SCUBA instrument on the James Clarke Maxwell Telescope have revealed a sample of gravitationally lensed sources at sub-mm wavelengths. We extend our previous calculation on the expected number…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Asantha R. Cooray

We present a strong and weak gravitational lens model of the galaxy cluster MACSJ0416.1-2403, constrained using spectroscopy from the Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS) and Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) imaging data. We search…

We present the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalogue (RASS-BSC, revision 1RXS) derived from the all-sky survey performed during the first half year (1990/91) of the ROSAT mission. 18,811 sources are catalogued (i) down to a limiting…

We present galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from 1321 sq. deg. of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 (Y1) data. The lens sample consists of a selection of 660,000 red galaxies with high-precision photometric redshifts, known as redMaGiC,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 J. Prat , C. Sánchez , Y. Fang , D. Gruen , J. Elvin-Poole , N. Kokron , L. F. Secco , B. Jain , R. Miquel , N. MacCrann , M. A. Troxel , A. Alarcon , D. Bacon , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. P. Dietrich , A. Drlica-Wagner , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , W. G. Hartley , B. Hoyle , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , M. M. Rau , R. P. Rollins , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , E. Sheldon , T. N. Varga , P. Vielzeuf , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , T. F. Eifler , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , D. Kirk , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , J. J. Mohr , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies is a powerful tool for studying cosmology and galaxy structure. The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) will revolutionize this field by discovering up to $\sim$100,000 galaxy-scale strong lenses, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Hengyu Wu , Yun Chen , Tonghua Liu , Xiaoyue Cao , Tian Li , Hui Li , Nan Li , Ran Li , Tengpeng Xu

The Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS) is a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Large Program, which will obtain 140 orbits of grism spectroscopy of the core and infall regions of 10 galaxy clusters, selected to be among the very best…

The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) is a multi-band imaging survey designed for cosmological studies from weak lensing and photometric redshifts. It uses the ESO VLT Survey Telescope with its wide-field camera OmegaCAM. KiDS images are taken in…

Gravitational lensing is the phenomenon arising when light rays are deflected by the mass between the source and the observer. Largely magnified and highly distorted images of background galaxies are formed by these angular deflections if…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Atınç Çağan Şengül

The COSMOS-Legacy survey is a 4.6 Ms Chandra program that has imaged 2.2 deg$^2$ of the COSMOS field with an effective exposure of $\simeq$160 ks over the central 1.5 deg$^2$ and of $\simeq$80 ks in the remaining area. The survey is the…

Spectroscopic selection has been the most productive technique for the selection of galaxy-scale strong gravitational lens systems with known redshifts. Statistically significant samples of strong lenses provide a powerful method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-18 Ryan A. Arneson , Joel R. Brownstein , Adam S. Bolton

We derive constraints on cosmological parameters and the properties of the lensing galaxies from gravitational lens statistics based on the final Cosmic Lens All Sky Survey (CLASS) data. For a flat universe with a classical cosmological…

A wide range of phenomena, from explosive transients to active galactic nuclei, exhibit variability at radio wavelengths on timescales of a few years. Characterizing the rate and scale of variability in the radio sky can provide keen…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Yjan A. Gordon , Peter S. Ferguson , Michael N. Martinez , Eric J. Hooper