Abell 1201: detection of an ultramassive black hole in a strong gravitational lens

JW Nightingale, RJ Smith, Q He… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are a key catalyst of galaxy formation and evolution,
leading to an observed correlation between SMBH mass M BH and host galaxy velocity …

The sizes of bright Lyman-break galaxies at z ≃ 3–5 with JWST PRIMER

RG Varadaraj, RAA Bowler, MJ Jarvis… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We use data from the JWST Public Release IMaging for Extragalactic Research survey to
measure the size scaling relations of 1668 rest-frame UV-bright Lyman-break galaxies …

astrophot: fitting everything everywhere all at once in astronomical images

CJ Stone, S Courteau, JC Cuillandre… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present astrophot, a fast, powerful, and user-friendly python based astronomical image
photometry solver. astrophot incorporates automatic differentiation and graphics processing …

Streamlined lensed quasar identification in multiband images via ensemble networks

IT Andika, SH Suyu, R Cañameras, A Melo… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Quasars experiencing strong lensing offer unique viewpoints on subjects related to the
cosmic expansion rate, the dark matter profile within the foreground deflectors, and the …

Unveiling lens light complexity with a novel multi-Gaussian expansion approach for strong gravitational lensing

Q He, JW Nightingale, A Amvrosiadis… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In a strong gravitational lensing system, the distorted light from a source is analysed to infer
the properties of the lens. However, light emitted by the lens itself can contaminate the …

Scanning for dark matter subhaloes in Hubble Space Telescope imaging of 54 strong lenses

JW Nightingale, Q He, X Cao… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The cold dark matter (DM) model predicts that every galaxy contains thousands of DM
subhaloes; almost all other DM models include a physical process that smooths away the …

Beyond the bulge–halo conspiracy? Density profiles of early-type galaxies from extended-source strong lensing

A Etherington, JW Nightingale, R Massey… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Observations suggest that the dark matter and stars in early-type galaxies 'conspire'to
produce a surprisingly simple distribution of total mass, ρ (r)∝ ρ− γ, with γ≈ 2. We measure …

Gravitational lensing reveals cool gas within 10-20 kpc around a quiescent galaxy

TM Barone, GG Kacprzak, JW Nightingale… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
While quiescent galaxies have comparable amounts of cool gas in their outer circumgalactic
medium (CGM) compared to star-forming galaxies, they have significantly less interstellar …

The ALMA-CRISTAL survey. Discovery of a 15 kpc-long gas plume in a Lyman- blob

M Solimano, J González-López, M Aravena… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Massive star-forming galaxies in the high-redshift universe host large reservoirs of cold gas
in their circumgalactic medium (CGM). Traditionally, these reservoirs have been linked to …

The onset of bar formation in a massive galaxy at

A Amvrosiadis, S Lange, J Nightingale, Q He… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We examine the morphological and kinematical properties of SPT-2147, a strongly lensed,
massive, dusty, star-forming galaxy at $ z= 3.762$. Combining data from JWST, HST, and …