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most citedObservational signatures of microlensing in gravitational waves at LIGO/Virgo frequencies

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astro-ph.GA2026

The Roman eXtreme Deep Field (RXDF)

Haojing Yan, Anton M. Koekemoer, Yue Shen +127

The Roman eXtreme Deep Field (RXDF) program is one of the five General Astrophysics Survey (GAS) programs approved for observing time with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in…

astro-ph.GA2026

Other red dots: A possible GLIMPSE of normal AGB stars at Cosmic Noon through extreme lensing

Lukas J. Furtak, Adi Zitrin, Erik Zackrisson +18

We report the discovery of four extremely faint () red point sources in recent ultra-deep JWST/NIRCam images of the strong lensing galaxy cluster Abell…

astro-ph.GA2026

First Statistical Study of Over 100 Magnified Stellar Events at Redshift with JWST

J. M. Palencia, Fengwu Sun, J. M. Diego +25

Highly magnified stars at cosmological distances () become detectable thanks to microlensing by intracluster stars near the critical curves of galaxy clusters. Multi…

astro-ph.GA2025

JWST's PEARLS: A Candidate Massive Binary Star System in a Lensed Galaxy at Redshift 0.94

Hayley Williams, Patrick L. Kelly, Emmanouil Zapartas +18

Massive stars at cosmological distances can be individually detected during transient microlensing events, when gravitational lensing magnifications may exceed ~1000. Nine such sou…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

JWST's PEARLS: Temperatures of Nine Highly Magnified Stars in a Galaxy at Redshift 0.94 and Simulated Stellar Population Dependence on Stellar Metallicity and the Initial Mass Function

Hayley Williams, Patrick L. Kelly, Rogier A. Windhorst +17

We present stellar atmosphere modeling of JWST NIRCam photometry of nine highly magnified individual stars in a single galaxy at redshift z=0.94 known as the Warhol arc, which is s…

astro-ph.GA2025

PEARLS: 21 Transients Found in the Three-Epoch NIRCam Observations in the Continuous Viewing Zone of the James Webb Space Telescope

Haojing Yan, Bangzheng Sun, Zhiyuan Ma +39

We present 21 transients from our three-epoch, four-band NIRCam observations covering 14.16 arcmin^2 in the Spitzer IRAC Dark Field (IDF), taken by the JWST Prime Extragalactic Are…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Supernova Siblings and Spectroscopic Host-Galaxy Properties

Laura Salo, Rui Zhou, Samuel Johnson +2

Over the past century, supernova (SN) searches have detected multiple supernovae (SNe) in hundreds of individual galaxies. So-called SN siblings discovered in the same galaxy prese…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Flashlights: Prospects for constraining the Initial Mass Function around cosmic noon with caustic-crossing events

Ashish Kumar Meena, Sung Kei Li, Adi Zitrin +7

The Flashlights program with the Hubble Space Telescope imaged the six Hubble Frontier Fields galaxy clusters in two epochs and detected twenty transients. These are primarily expe…

astro-ph.GA2024

First joint MUSE, HST, and JWST spectro-photometric analysis of the intracluster light: the case of the relaxed cluster RX J2129.7+0005

Yolanda Jiménez-Teja, Antonio Gimenez-Alcazar, Renato A. Dupke +8

We present the most detailed spectrum of the intracluster light (ICL) in an individual cluster to date, the relaxed system RX J2129.7+0005, at . Using 15 broad-band, d…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

BUFFALO Wild Wings: A High Precision Free-Form Lens Model of MACSJ0416 with Constraints on Dark Matter from Substructure and Highly Magnified Arcs

Derek Perera, Liliya L. R. Williams, Jori Liesenborgs +10

We present new free-form and hybrid mass reconstructions of the galaxy cluster lens MACS J0416.12403 at using the lens inversion method GRALE. The reconstructions use…

astro-ph.GA2024

Identification of 40 gravitationally magnified stars in a galaxy at redshift of 0.725

Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Fengwu Sun, Jose M. Diego +44

Strong gravitational magnifications enable to detect faint background sources, resolve their internal structures, and even identify individual stars in distant galaxies. Highly mag…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

JWST Spectroscopy of SN H0pe: Classification and Time Delays of a Triply-imaged Type Ia Supernova at z = 1.78

Wenlei Chen, Patrick L. Kelly, Brenda L. Frye +19

SN H0pe is a triply imaged supernova (SN) at redshift discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). In order to classify the SN spectroscopically and measure the…

astro-ph.GA2023

Sp1149 I: Constraints on the Balmer L-sigma Relation for HII Regions in a Spiral Galaxy at Redshift z=1.49 Strongly Lensed by the MACS J1149 Cluster

Hayley Williams, Patrick Kelly, Wenlei Chen +3

The luminosities and velocity dispersions of the extinction-corrected Balmer emission lines of giant HII regions in nearby galaxies exhibit a tight correlation (~0.35 dex scatter).…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

The JWST Discovery of the Triply-imaged Type Ia "Supernova H0pe" and Observations of the Galaxy Cluster PLCK G165.7+67.0

Brenda L. Frye, Massimo Pascale, Justin Pierel +39

A Type Ia supernova (SN) at was discovered in James Webb Space Telescope Near Infrared Camera imaging of the galaxy cluster PLCK G165.7+67.0 (G165; ). The SN is…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

JWST's PEARLS: Transients in the MACS J0416.1-2403 Field

Haojing Yan, Zhiyuan Ma, Bangzheng Sun +27

With its unprecedented sensitivity and spatial resolution, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened a new window for time-domain discoveries in the infrared. Here we report…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

An Empirical reionization history model inferred from the low-redshift Lyman continuum survey and the star-forming galaxies at

Yu-Heng Lin, Claudia Scarlata, Hayley Williams +8

We present a new analysis of the rest-frame UV and optical spectra of a sample of three galaxies discovered behind the gravitational lensing cluster RX\,J2129.4+0009. We comb…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 5 cited

A Strong-Lensing Model for the WMDF JWST/GTO Very Rich Cluster Abell 1489

Adi Zitrin, Ana Acebron, Dan Coe +18

We present a first strong-lensing model for the galaxy cluster RM J121218.5+273255.1 (; hereafter RMJ1212; also known as Abell 1489). This cluster is amongst the top 0.1\%…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 1 cited

Two Peculiar Fast Transients in a Strongly Lensed Host Galaxy

S. A. Rodney, I. Balestra, M. Bradac +32

A massive galaxy cluster can serve as a magnifying glass for distant stellar populations, with strong gravitational lensing exposing details in the lensed background galaxies that…