Observational probes of cosmic acceleration

DH Weinberg, MJ Mortonson, DJ Eisenstein, C Hirata… - Physics reports, 2013 - Elsevier
The accelerating expansion of the universe is the most surprising cosmological discovery in
many decades, implying that the universe is dominated by some form of “dark energy” with …

Cosmological parameters from observations of galaxy clusters

SW Allen, AE Evrard, AB Mantz - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Studies of galaxy clusters have proved crucial in helping to establish the standard model of
cosmology, with a Universe dominated by dark matter and dark energy. A theoretical basis …

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) …

[HTML][HTML] An atlas of MUSE observations towards twelve massive lensing clusters

J Richard, A Claeyssens, D Lagattuta, L Guaita… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Spectroscopic surveys of massive galaxy clusters reveal the properties of faint
background galaxies thanks to the magnification provided by strong gravitational lensing …

CLASH: three strongly lensed images of a candidate z≈ 11 galaxy

D Coe, A Zitrin, M Carrasco, X Shu… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a candidate for the most distant galaxy known to date with a photometric redshift
of z= 10.7+ 0.6− 0.4 (95% confidence limits; with z< 9.5 galaxies of known types ruled out at …

Hubble Space Telescope combined strong and weak lensing analysis of the CLASH sample: mass and magnification models and systematic uncertainties

A Zitrin, A Fabris, J Merten, P Melchior… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results from a comprehensive lensing analysis in Hubble Space Telescope
(HST) data of the complete Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble cluster …

Euclid. I. Overview of the Euclid mission

Y Mellier, A Abdurroúf, JAA Barroso… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
The current standard model of cosmology successfully describes a variety of measurements,
but the nature of its main ingredients, dark matter and dark energy, remains unknown. is a …

First JWST observations of a gravitational lens-Mass model from new multiple images with near-infrared observations of SMACS J0723. 3− 7327

GB Caminha, SH Suyu, A Mercurio, G Brammer… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We present our lens mass model of SMACS J0723. 3− 7327, the first strong gravitational
lens observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). We use data from the Hubble …

The density profiles of massive, relaxed galaxy clusters. I. The total density over three decades in radius

AB Newman, T Treu, RS Ellis, DJ Sand… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Clusters of galaxies are excellent locations to probe the distribution of baryons and dark
matter (DM) over a wide range of scales. We study a sample of seven massive (M 200= 0.4 …

Cluster lenses

JP Kneib, P Natarajan - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2011 - Springer
Clusters of galaxies are the most recently assembled, massive, bound structures in the
Universe. As predicted by General Relativity, given their masses, clusters strongly deform …