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The galaxy circular velocity function at small masses is related to the matter power spectrum on small scales. Although this function is well-studied for Local Group dwarfs, theoretical predictions and observational measurements are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael R. Blanton , Marla Geha , Andrew A. West

In this paper, we propose a new method to use the strong lensing data sets to constrain a cosmological model. By taking the ratio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 Nannan Wang , Lixin Xu

N-body simulations predict that dark matter halos with different mass scales are described by a universal model, the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) density profiles. As a consequence of baryonic cooling effects, the halos will become more…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Xinzhong Er

Stellar and gas kinematics of galaxies are a sensitive probe of the dark matter distribution in the halo. The popular fuzzy dark matter models predict the peculiar shape of density distribution in galaxies: specific dense core with sharp…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Mariia Khelashvili , Anton Rudakovskyi , Sabine Hossenfelder

Cosmological simulations predict that galaxies are embedded into triaxial dark matter haloes, which appear approximately elliptical in projection. Weak gravitational lensing allows us to constrain these halo shapes and thereby test the…

Luminosity profiles of galaxies acting as strong gravitational lenses can be tricky to study. Indeed, strong gravitational lensing images display several lensed components, both point-like and diffuse, around the lensing galaxy. Those…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-23 J. Biernaux , P. Magain , D. Sluse , V. Chantry

We present a measurement of average histograms of line-of-sight velocities over pairs of galaxies and galaxy clusters. Since the histogram can be measured at different galaxy-cluster separations, this observable is commonly referred to as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-21 Masato Shirasaki , Eiichi Egami , Nobuhiro Okabe , Satoshi Miyazaki

The gravitational lensing properties of cosmological halos depend upon the mass distribution within each halo. The description of halos as nonsingular, truncated isothermal spheres, a particular solution of the isothermal Lane-Emden…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugo Martel , Paul R. Shapiro

From a set of 3D cosmological simulations which incorporate a self-consistent model of the star-gas interactions, we have been able to obtain a statistically significant sample of galaxy-type halos with observational properties, like colors…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Yepes , D. Elizondo , Y. Ascasibar

The goal of this paper is to develop a machine learning model to analyze the main gravitational lens and detect dark substructure (subhalos) within simulated images of strongly lensed galaxies. Using the technique of image segmentation, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-27 Bryan Ostdiek , Ana Diaz Rivero , Cora Dvorkin

In this paper, we develop a new gravitational lensing inversion technique. While traditional approaches assume that the lensing field varies little across a galaxy image, we note that this variation in the field can give rise to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David M. Goldberg , David J. Bacon

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

The analysis of optical images of galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing systems can provide important information about the distribution of dark matter at small scales. However, the modeling and statistical analysis of these images is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Adam Coogan , Konstantin Karchev , Christoph Weniger

We re-analyze constraints on the cosmological constant that can be obtained by examining the statistics of strong gravitational lensing of distant quasars by intervening galaxies, focusing on uncertainties in galaxy models (including…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu-Chung N. Cheng , Lawrence M. Krauss

Galaxy redshift surveys, such as 2dF, SDSS, 6df, GAMA and VIPERS, have shown that the spatial distribution of matter forms a rich web, known as the cosmic web. The majority of galaxy survey analyses measure the amplitude of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-29 Siyu He , Shadab Alam , Simone Ferraro , Yen-Chi Chen , Shirley Ho

[ABRIDGED] The weak gravitational lensing effect is used to infer matter density fluctuations within the field-of-view of the Garching-Bonn Deep Survey (GaBoDS). This information is employed for a statistical comparison of the galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Simon , M. Hetterscheidt , M. Schirmer , T. Erben , P. Schneider , C. Wolf , K. Meisenheimer

[Abridged] Many current and future astronomical surveys will rely on samples of strong gravitational lens systems to draw conclusions about galaxy mass distributions. We use a new strong lensing pipeline (presented in Paper I of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Rachel Mandelbaum , Glenn van de Ven , Charles R. Keeton

We present the results of attempts to detect the ellipticity of dark matter halos using galaxy-galaxy weak lensing with SDSS data. We use 2,020,256 galaxies brighter than r=19 with photometric redshifts (divided into colour and luminosity…

We present a strong lensing system in which a double source is imaged 5 times by 2 early-type galaxies. We take advantage in this target of the multi-band photometry obtained as part of the CLASH program, complemented by the spectroscopic…