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Strong gravitational lensing provides unique opportunities to investigate the mass distribution at the cores of galaxy clusters and to study high redshift galaxies. Using $94$ strong lensing models of $74$ cluster fields from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Carter Fox , Guillaume Mahler , Keren Sharon , Juan D. Remolina González

Weak gravitational lensing measurements are traditionally made at optical wavelengths where many highly resolved galaxy images are readily available. However, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) holds great promise for this type of measurement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Prina Patel , Ian Harrison , Sphesihle Makhathini , Filipe Abdalla , David Bacon , Michael L. Brown , Ian Heywood , Matt Jarvis , Oleg Smirnov

Galaxies and supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are believed to evolve through a process of hierarchical merging and accretion. Through this paradigm, multiple SMBH systems are expected to be relatively common in the Universe. However, to…

Strong gravitational lenses provide unique laboratories for cosmological and astrophysical investigations, but they must first be discovered - a task that can be met with significant contamination by other astrophysical objects and…

Radio continuum surveys have, in the past, been of restricted use in cosmology. Most studies have concentrated on cross-correlations with the cosmic microwave background to detect the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect, due to the large sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Matt J. Jarvis , David Bacon , Chris Blake , Michael L. Brown , Sam N. Lindsay , Alvise Raccanelli , Mario Santos , Dominik Schwarz

Diffuse radio emission has been detected in a considerable number of galaxy clusters and groups, revealing the presence of pervasive cosmic magnetic fields, and of relativistic particles in the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe.…

Strong lensing has developed into an important astrophysical tool for probing both cosmology and galaxies (their structure, formation, and evolution). Using the gravitational lensing theory and cluster mass distribution model, we try to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shuo Cao , Yu Pan , Marek Biesiada , Wlodzimierz Godlowski , Zong-Hong Zhu

The inner regions of active galaxies host the most extreme and energetic phenomena in the universe including, relativistic jets, supermassive black hole binaries, and recoiling supermassive black holes. However, many of these sources cannot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-19 Anna Barnacka

[Abridged] We exploit the clustering of massive galaxies to perform a high efficiency imaging search for gravitational lenses. Our dataset comprises 44 fields imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 Elisabeth R. Newton , Philip J. Marshall , Tommaso Treu

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

Deep wide spectral line surveys with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will expand the cosmic frontiers of neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) in galaxies. However, at cosmologically significant redshifts ($z \gtrsim 0.5$), detections will…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-12 Charissa Button , Roger Deane

The SKA will be a transformational instrument in the study of our local Universe. In particular, by virtue of its high sensitivity (both to point sources and diffuse low surface brightness emission), angular resolution and the frequency…

SKA is a new technology radio-telescope array, about two orders of magnitude more sensitive and rapid in sky surveys than present instruments. It will probe the dark age of the universe, just afer recombination, and during the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Francoise Combes

Like light, gravitational waves can be gravitationally lensed by massive astrophysical objects. Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies and galaxy clusters is anticipated to become observable in the coming years. This phenomenon will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Leo C. Y. Ng , Justin Janquart , Hemantakumar Phurailatpam , Harsh Narola , Jason S. C. Poon , Chris Van Den Broeck , Otto A. Hannuksela

Strong gravitational lensing provides an independent measurement of the Hubble parameter ($H_0$). One remaining systematic is a bias from the additional mass due to a galaxy group at the lens redshift or along the sightline. We quantify…

Gravitational lensing is generally treated in the geometric optics limit; however, when the wavelength of the radiation approaches or exceeds the Schwarzschild radius of the lens, diffraction becomes important. Although the magnification…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Jeremy S. Heyl

The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will enable studies of star formation in nearby galaxies with a level of detail never before possible outside of the Milky Way. Because the earliest stages of stellar evolution are often inaccessible at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kelsey E. Johnson

On a time scale of years to decades, gravitational wave (GW) astronomy will become a reality. Low frequency (nanoHz) GWs are detectable through long-term timing observations of the most stable pulsars. Radio observatories worldwide are…

Strong gravitational lenses are now being routinely discovered in wide-field surveys at (sub)millimeter wavelengths. We present Submillimeter Array (SMA) high-spatial resolution imaging and Gemini-South and Multiple Mirror Telescope optical…

The role of the SKA in high resolution observations of the formation of low and high mass stars in the Galaxy is examined. The large collecting area will have a large impact on dynamical studies at high resolution using spectral lines. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. G. Hoare