[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Probing the universe with weak lensing

Y Mellier - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1999 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Gravitational lenses can provide crucial information on the geometry of the
Universe, on the cosmological scenario of formation of its structures as well as on the history …

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 …

A Bayesian approach to strong lensing modelling of galaxy clusters

E Jullo, JP Kneib, M Limousin, A Eliasdottir… - New Journal of …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we describe a procedure for modelling strong lensing galaxy clusters with
parametric methods, and to rank models quantitatively using the Bayesian evidence. We use …

CLASH: the concentration-mass relation of galaxy clusters

J Merten, M Meneghetti, M Postman… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new determination of the concentration–mass (c–M) relation for galaxy
clusters based on our comprehensive lensing analysis of 19 X-ray selected galaxy clusters …

[HTML][HTML] Gravitational lensing in astronomy

J Wambsganss - Living Reviews in Relativity, 1998 - Springer
Deflection of light by gravity was predicted by General Relativity and observationally
confirmed in 1919. In the following decades, various aspects of the gravitational lens effect …

The Hubble constant from eight time-delay galaxy lenses

P Denzel, JP Coles, P Saha… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present a determination of the Hubble constant from the joint, free-form analysis of eight
strongly, quadruply lensing systems. In the concordance cosmology, we find with a precision …

Combined reconstruction of weak and strong lensing data with wslap

JM Diego, M Tegmark, P Protopapas… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
We describe a method to estimate the mass distribution of a gravitational lens and the
position of the sources from combined strong and weak lensing data. The algorithm …

Pixelated Reconstruction of Foreground Density and Background Surface Brightness in Gravitational Lensing Systems Using Recurrent Inference Machines

A Adam, L Perreault-Levasseur… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Modeling strong gravitational lenses in order to quantify distortions in the images of
background sources and to reconstruct the mass density in foreground lenses has been a …

Non-parametric inversion of strong lensing systems

JM Diego, P Protopapas, HB Sandvik… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
We revisit the issue of non-parametric gravitational lens reconstruction and present a new
method to obtain the cluster mass distribution using strong lensing data without using any …