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Gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics are two independent methods, based solely on gravity, to study the mass distributions of galaxies. Both methods suffer from degeneracies, however, that are difficult to break. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-05 Matteo Barnabe' , Leon V. E. Koopmans

We present a new method to estimate the Hubble constant H_0 from the measured time delays in quadruply imaged gravitational lens systems. We show how it is possible to get an estimate of H_0 without the need to completely reconstruct the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. F. Cardone , S. Capozziello , V. Re , E. Piedipalumbo

Gravitational lensing time delays depend upon the Hubble constant and the density distribution of the lensing galaxies. This allows one to either model the lens and estimate the Hubble constant, or to use a prior on the Hubble constant from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Benjamin M. Dobke , Lindsay J. King

A central theme in classical algorithms for the reconstruction of discontinuous functions from observational data is perimeter regularization via the use of the total variation. On the other hand, sparse or noisy data often demands a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-13 Oliver R. A. Dunbar , Matthew M. Dunlop , Charles M. Elliott , Viet Ha Hoang , Andrew M. Stuart

Many imaging problems require solving an inverse problem that is ill-conditioned or ill-posed. Imaging methods typically address this difficulty by regularising the estimation problem to make it well-posed. This often requires setting the…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-17 Ana F. Vidal , Valentin De Bortoli , Marcelo Pereyra , Alain Durmus

The light travel time differences in strong gravitational lensing systems allows an independent determination of the Hubble constant. This method has been successfully applied to several lens systems. The formally most precise measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Peter Schneider , Dominique Sluse

There are $\sim 1$, 0.1 and 0.01 gravitationally lensed X-ray sources per square degree with soft X-ray fluxes exceeding $10^{-15}, 10^{-14}$ and $10^{-13} ergs/s cm^{-2}$ respectively. These sources will be detected serendipitously with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Munoz , C. S. Kochanek , E. E. Falco

Strong gravitational lensing produces multiple images of a gravitational wave (GW) signal, which can be observed by detectors as time-separated copies of the same event. It has been shown that under favourable circumstances, by combining…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-04 Harsh Narola , Justin Janquart , Leïla Haegel , K. Haris , Otto A. Hannuksela , Chris Van Den Broeck

Gravitational lensing is the deflection of light rays due to the gravity of intervening masses. This phenomenon is observed in a variety of scales and configurations, involving any non-uniform mass such as planets, stars, galaxies, clusters…

The theory of General Relativity predicts that, since massive bodies curve spacetime, light from a distant source would be deflected by a foreground massive object -- a phenomenon known as \emph{Gravitational Lensing}. Historically, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 Adi Zitrin

Studies of strong gravitational lensing in current and upcoming wide and deep photometric surveys, and of stellar kinematics from (integral-field) spectroscopy at increasing redshifts, promise to provide valuable constraints on galaxy…

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

We propose a new method to detect the gravitational lenses in the ongoing microlensing experiments using medium and high resolution spectroscopy (resolution > 6000). Since the radial velocity of the lens and lensed source typically differs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Mao , J. Reetz , D. L. Lennon

Gravitational wave (GW) sources are an excellent probe of the luminosity distance and offer a novel measure of the Hubble constant, $H_0$. This estimation of $H_0$ from standard sirens requires an accurate estimation of the cosmological…

Gravitational waves (GWs) from distant sources such as inspiralling and merging stellar-mass compact binaries, intermediate-mass and supermassive-binary-black-hole can be gravitationally lensed by intervening objects, ranging from stars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhiwei Chen , Youjun Lu

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

The problem of obtaining spectral densities from lattice data has been receiving great attention due to its importance in our understanding of scattering processes in Quantum Field Theory, with applications both in the Standard Model and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-09-09 Luigi Del Debbio , Alessandro Lupo , Marco Panero , Nazario Tantalo

Gravitational lensing by clusters of galaxies offers a powerful probe of their structure and mass distribution. Deriving a lens magnification map for a galaxy cluster is a classic inversion problem and many methods have been developed over…

Robust regression has attracted a great amount of attention in the literature recently, particularly for taking asymmetricity into account simultaneously and for high-dimensional analysis. However, the majority of research on the topics…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-25 Sanna Soomro , Keming Yu , Yan Yu

Challenges inherent to high-resolution and high signal-to-noise data as well as model degeneracies can cause systematic biases in analyses of strong lens systems. In the past decade, the number of lens modeling methods has significantly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 A. Galan , G. Vernardos , Q. Minor , D. Sluse , L. Van de Vyvere , M. Gomer

Score-based models can serve as expressive, data-driven priors for scientific inverse problems. In strong gravitational lensing, they enable posterior inference of a background galaxy from its distorted, multiply-imaged observation.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Gabriel Missael Barco , Ronan Legin , Connor Stone , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur