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We test with gravitational lensing data the dark matter (DM) halos embedding the luminous baryonic component of galaxy clusters; our benchmark is provided by their two-stage cosmogonical development that we compute with its variance, and by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Lapi , A. Cavaliere

The microphysical properties of the DM particle can, in principle, be constrained by the properties and abundance of substructures in DM halos, as measured through strong gravitational lensing. Unfortunately, there is a lack of accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Raul E. Angulo , Ruizhu Chen , Stefan Hilbert , Tom Abel

Weak gravitational lensing surveys are rapidly becoming important tools to probe directly the mass density fluctuations in the universe and its background dynamics. Earlier studies have shown that it is possible to model the statistics of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Patrick Valageas , Andrew J. Barber , Dipak Munshi

In this study, we explore gravitational lensing using more realistic dark matter halo models, moving beyond the limitations of spherical-collapse approximations. Through analytical calculations employing various mass functions, we address…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 Ali Tizfahm , Saeed Fakhry , Javad T. Firouzjaee , Antonino Del Popolo

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for probing the matter distribution in the cores of massive dark matter haloes. Recent and ongoing analyses of galaxy cluster surveys (MACS, CFHTLS, SDSS, SGAS, CLASH, LoCuSS) have adressed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Carlo Giocoli , Massimo Meneghetti , Matthias Bartelmann , Lauro Moscardini , Michele Boldrin

This work presents DLO-Splatting, an algorithm for estimating the 3D shape of Deformable Linear Objects (DLOs) from multi-view RGB images and gripper state information through prediction-update filtering. The DLO-Splatting algorithm uses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Holly Dinkel , Marcel Büsching , Alberta Longhini , Brian Coltin , Trey Smith , Danica Kragic , Mårten Björkman , Timothy Bretl

High resolution dark matter only simulations provide a realistic and fully general means to study the theoretical predictions of cosmological structure formation models for gravitational lensing. Due to the finite number of particles, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Stefan Rau , Simona Vegetti , Simon D. M. White

We present results from a series of cosmological SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) simulations coupled with the P3M (Particle-Particle-Particle-Mesh) solver for the gravitational force. The simulations are designed to predict the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kohji Yoshikawa , Y. P. Jing , Yasushi Suto

We investigate 3D density and weak lensing profiles of dark matter haloes predicted by a cosmology-rescaling algorithm for $N$-body simulations. We extend the rescaling method of Angulo & White (2010) and Angulo & Hilbert (2015) to improve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Malin Renneby , Stefan Hilbert , Raúl E. Angulo

Flexion is the significant third-order weak gravitational lensing effect responsible for the weakly skewed and arc-like appearance of lensed galaxies. Here we demonstrate how flexion measurements can be used to measure galaxy halo density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. J. Bacon , D. M. Goldberg , B. T. P. Rowe , A. N. Taylor

Weak gravitational lensing seeks to determine shear by measuring induced quadrupole (elliptical) shapes in background galaxy images. Small impact parameter (a few kpc) gravitational lensing by foreground core masses between 2 10^{9} and 2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 John Irwin , Marina Shmakova

Strong gravitational lensing has emerged as a promising approach for probing dark matter models on sub-galactic scales. Recent work has proposed the subhalo effective density slope as a more reliable observable than the commonly used…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-08 Gemma Zhang , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Cora Dvorkin

To investigate the effect of gravitational lensing of supernovae in large ongoing surveys, we simulate the effect of gravitational lensing magnification on individual supernovae using observational data input from two large supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jakob Jonsson , Taia Kronborg , Edvard Mortsell , Jesper Sollerman

The lensing signal around galaxy clusters can, in principle, be used to test detailed predictions for their average mass profile from numerical simulations. However, the intrinsic shape of the profiles can be smeared out when a sample that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Keiichi Umetsu , Benedikt Diemer

We present the results of weak gravitational lensing statistics in four different cosmological $N$-body simulations. The data has been generated using an algorithm for the three-dimensional shear, which makes use of a variable softening…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew J. Barber , Peter A. Thomas , H. M. P. Couchman , C. J. Fluke

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 study weak lensing properties of filaments that connect clusters of galaxies through large cosmological $N$-body simulations. We select 4639 halo pairs with masses higher than $10^{14}h^{-1}\mathrm{M}_\odot$ from the simulations and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-27 Yuichi Higuchi , Masamune Oguri , Masato Shirasaki

Gravitational lensing has now become a popular tool to measure the mass distribution of structures in the Universe on various scales. Here we focus on the study of galaxy's scale dark matter halos with galaxy-galaxy lensing techniques:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Limousin , J-P. Kneib , P. Natarajan

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) has been extensively studied in computer graphics to animate fluids with versatile effects. However, SPH still suffers from two numerical difficulties: the particle deficiency problem, which will…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Xiaowei He , Huamin Wang , Guoping Wang , Hongan Wang , Enhua Wu

Cosmological inference from cluster number counts is systematically limited by the accuracy of the mass calibration, i.e. the empirical determination of the mapping between cluster selection observables and halo mass. In this work we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-21 Sebastian Grandis , Sebastian Bocquet , Joseph J. Mohr , Matthias Klein , Klaus Dolag