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We study the amplitude of the weak gravitational lensing signal as a function of stellar mass around a sample of relatively isolated galaxies. This selection of lenses simplifies the interpretation of the observations, which consist of data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lanlan Tian , Henk Hoekstra , Hongsheng Zhao

We show how observations of multiply-imaged quasars at high redshift can be used as a probe of dark matter clumps (subhalos with masses ~ 10^9 solar masses) within the virialized extent of more massive lensing halos. A large abundance of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Benton Metcalf , Piero Madau

Upcoming large-scale structure surveys will be able to measure new features in the galaxy two point correlation function. Relativistic effects appear on large scales as subtle corrections to redshift-space distortions, showing up as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Daniel Sobral-Blanco , Camille Bonvin , Chris Clarkson , Roy Maartens

Weak gravitational lensing measurements based on photometry are limited by shape noise, the variance in the unknown unlensed orientations of the source galaxies. If the source is a disk galaxy with a well-ordered velocity field, however,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-08 David Wittman , Matthew Self

Subject of this paper is the weak lensing effect on galaxies that show intrinsically correlated ellipticities. In our model, we investigate the distortion of the ellipticity field if the galaxies experience an apparent shift in their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Aram Giahi-Saravani , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

The systematic magnification of background sources by the weak gravitational-lensing effects of foreground matter, also called cosmic magnification, is becoming an efficient tool both for measuring cosmological parameters and for exploring…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Brice Menard , Takashi Hamana , Matthias Bartelmann , Naoki Yoshida

Gravitational lensing directly measures mass density fluctuations along the lines of sight to very distant objects. No assumptions need to be made concerning bias, the ratio of fluctuations in galaxy density to mass density. Hence, lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Wambsganss , Renyue Cen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We compare and contrast gravitational lensing, in the strong-field limit, by photon sphere in spherically symmetric regular electrically charged (REC) black holes ($0<b\leq b_E$) and with those by corresponding REC no-horizon spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-21 Jitendra Kumar , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

We study how the angular resolution of LISA for merging massive black-hole binaries would be improved if we observe multiple gravitational wave ``images'' due to strong gravitational lensing. The correlation between fitting parameters is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Naoki Seto

Application of the most robust method of measuring black hole masses, spatially resolved kinematics of gas and stars, is presently limited to nearby galaxies. The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) and thirty meter class…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-08-19 Yashar D. Hezaveh

The projected mass of a gravitational lens inside (circular) apertures can be derived from the measured shear inside an annulus which is caused by the tidal field of the deflecting mass distribution. Here we show that also the multipoles of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Peter Schneider , Matthias Bartelmann

We investigate a new experimental possibility of measuring the Newtonian gravitational constant $G$ by using the weak measurement. Amplification via weak measurement is one of the interesting phenomena of quantum mechanics. In this letter,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Kiyoharu Kawana , Daiki Ueda

In this work, gravitational lensing in the weak and strong field limits is investigated for black hole spacetime within the framework of Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$ gravity. We employ the Ishihara et al. approach for weak lensing and adopt Bozza's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Gayatri Mohan , Nashiba Parbin , Umananda Dev Goswami

The coherent image distortions induced by weak gravitational lensing can be used to measure the power spectrum of density inhomogeneities in the universe. We present our on-going effort to detect this effect with the FIRST radio survey,…

Time delays in gravitational lenses can be used to determine the Hubble constant and the lens potential. In future surveys, many gravitational lenses can be discovered, and their time delays and image positions can in principle be measured.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 Hans Witt , Shude Mao

We investigate the impact of the observed correlation between a galaxies shape and its surrounding density field on the measurement of third order weak lensing shear statistics. Using numerical simulations, we estimate the systematic error…

We introduce a collection of statistics appropriate for the study of spinorial quantities defined in three dimensions, focussing on applications to cosmological weak gravitational lensing studies in 3D. In particular, we concentrate on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Dipak Munshi , Thomas Kitching , Alan Heavens , Peter Coles

Gravitational waves provide a novel and independent measurement of cosmological parameters, offering a promising avenue to address the Hubble tension alongside traditional electromagnetic observations. In the absence of electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Tom Bertheas , Vasco Gennari , Nicola Tamanini

We introduce a novel method for weak-lensing measurements, which is based on a mathematically exact deconvolution of the moments of the apparent brightness distribution of galaxies from the telescope's PSF. No assumptions on the shape of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-24 Peter Melchior , Massimo Viola , Björn Malte Schäfer , Matthias Bartelmann

LISA might detect gravitational waves from mergers of massive black hole binaries strongly lensed by intervening galaxies (Sereno et al. 2010). The detection of multiple gravitational lensing events would provide a new tool for cosmography.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Sereno , Ph. Jetzer , A. Sesana , M. Volonteri