Gravitational lensing

M Bartelmann - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitational lensing has developed into one of the most powerful tools for the analysis of
the dark universe. This review summarizes the theory of gravitational lensing, its main …

Strong Lensing by Galaxy Clusters

P Natarajan, LLR Williams, M Bradač, C Grillo… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Galaxy clusters as gravitational lenses play a unique role in astrophysics and cosmology:
they permit mapping the dark matter distribution on a range of scales; they reveal the …

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 …

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 …

The Frontier Fields: survey design and initial results

JM Lotz, A Koekemoer, D Coe, N Grogin… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
What are the faintest distant galaxies we can see with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
now, before the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope? This is the challenge taken …

Directly observing the galaxies likely responsible for reionization

RC Livermore, SL Finkelstein… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a new analysis of the Hubble Frontier Fields clusters Abell 2744 and MACS 0416
using wavelet decomposition to remove the cluster light, enabling the detection of highly …

Full-data results of Hubble frontier fields: UV luminosity functions at z∼ 6–10 and a consistent picture of cosmic reionization

M Ishigaki, R Kawamata, M Ouchi, M Oguri… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present UV luminosity functions of dropout galaxies at~– z 6 10 with the complete
Hubble Frontier Fields data. We obtain a catalog of∼ 450 dropout-galaxy candidates (350 …

The z∼ 6 luminosity function fainter than− 15 mag from the Hubble Frontier Fields: the impact of magnification uncertainties

RJ Bouwens, PA Oesch, GD Illingworth… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We use the largest sample of z 6~ galaxies to date from the first four Hubble Frontier Fields
clusters to set constraints on the shape of the z 6~ luminosity functions (LFs) to fainter than M …

Constraining the Neutral Fraction of Hydrogen in the IGM at Redshift 7.5

A Hoag, M Bradač, K Huang, C Mason… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a large spectroscopic campaign with Keck/Multi-Object Spectrometer for
InfraRed Exploration (MOSFIRE) targeting Lyα emission (Lyα) from intrinsically faint Lyman …

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 …