Strong gravitational lensing of explosive transients

M Oguri - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent rapid progress in time domain surveys makes it possible to detect various types of
explosive transients in the Universe in large numbers, some of which will be gravitationally …

Cluster–galaxy weak lensing

K Umetsu - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2020 - Springer
Weak gravitational lensing of background galaxies provides a direct probe of the projected
matter distribution in and around galaxy clusters. Here, we present a self-contained …

Constraints on the Hubble constant from supernova Refsdal's reappearance

PL Kelly, S Rodney, T Treu, M Oguri, W Chen, A Zitrin… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The gravitationally lensed supernova Refsdal appeared in multiple images produced
through gravitational lensing by a massive foreground galaxy cluster. After the supernova …

A highly magnified star at redshift 6.2

B Welch, D Coe, JM Diego, A Zitrin, E Zackrisson… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Galaxy clusters magnify background objects through strong gravitational lensing. Typical
magnifications for lensed galaxies are factors of a few but can also be as high as tens or …

z∼ 2–9 galaxies magnified by the Hubble Frontier Field clusters. II. Luminosity functions and constraints on a faint-end turnover

RJ Bouwens, G Illingworth, RS Ellis… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new determinations of the rest-UV luminosity functions (LFs) at z= 2–9 to
extremely low luminosities (>− 14 mag) from a sample of> 2500 lensed galaxies found …

UNCOVERing the extended strong lensing structures of Abell 2744 with the deepest JWST imaging

LJ Furtak, A Zitrin, JR Weaver, H Atek… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a new parametric lens model for the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 based
on new ultra-deep JWST imaging taken in the framework of the UNCOVER program. These …

Unscrambling the lensed galaxies in JWST images behind SMACS 0723

M Pascale, BL Frye, J Diego, LJ Furtak… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The first deep field images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the galaxy
cluster SMACS J0723. 3-7327 reveal a wealth of new lensed images at uncharted infrared …

New high-precision strong lensing modeling of Abell 2744-Preparing for JWST observations

P Bergamini, A Acebron, C Grillo, P Rosati… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present a new strong lensing (SL) model of the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) galaxy
cluster Abell 2744, at z= 0.3072, by exploiting archival Hubble Space Telescope (HST) …

An excess of small-scale gravitational lenses observed in galaxy clusters

M Meneghetti, G Davoli, P Bergamini, P Rosati… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Cold dark matter (CDM) constitutes most of the matter in the Universe. The interplay
between dark and luminous matter in dense cosmic environments, such as galaxy clusters …

The GLASS-JWST Early Release Science Program. III. Strong-lensing model of Abell 2744 and its infalling regions

P Bergamini, A Acebron, C Grillo, P Rosati… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new high-precision, JWST-based, strong-lensing model for the galaxy cluster
Abell 2744 at z= 0.3072. By combining the deep, high-resolution JWST imaging from the …