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most citedA refined mass distribution of the cluster MACS J0416.12403 from a new large set of spectroscopic multiply lensed sources

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astro-ph.GA2026

DREAMS: Taking the Temperature of a Massive Galaxy at z ~ 11

L. Parente, E. Vanzella, M. Messa +15

We present a detailed photometric and spectroscopic analysis of Janus-11, a galaxy magnified by a factor 1.6 by the galaxy cluster MACS J0416. It was observ…

astro-ph.GA2026

Dynamical models of cluster members to probe the total mass properties of cluster subhalos. I. A comparison with parametric strong lensing models

Nicola Bianchetti, Claudio Grillo, Giovanni Granata +6

In this series of papers, we present dynamical models of cluster members in strong lensing (SL) galaxy clusters to independently probe the persistent discrepancy reported between S…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Cosmic Archipelago of lensed metal-poor galaxies at

A. Bolamperti, M. Messa, A. Zanella +21

The Cosmic Archipelago is an ensemble of galaxies, strongly lensed by the cluster MACSJ0416, showing extreme physical properties at . We combine JWST/NIRCam with deep VL…

astro-ph.GA2026

A New Perspective on Galactic Evolution: Studying the Outskirts of the Abell S1063 Galaxy Cluster

L. Pecoraro, A. Mercurio, M. Annunziatella +14

Galaxy physical properties are influenced by their environments, but the processes responsible for mass and environmental quenching and structural transformations remain debated. G…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

The velocity dispersion function of red galaxies in four Hubble Frontier Fields galaxy clusters

G. Granata, L. Tortorelli, C. Grillo +6

We present a detailed study of the stellar kinematic properties of red member galaxies in the cores of four strong lensing galaxy clusters at intermediate redshifts included in the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

A faint M Lyman-continuum leaker candidate in the epoch of reionization: Unprecedented Ly properties at z=5.725

M. Messa, E. Vanzella, T. Morishita +10

We report the unprecedented Ly properties of AMORE6, an extremely metal-poor (), low-mass (), and ultracompact (effec…

astro-ph.GA2025

Image simulations of highly magnified clumpy galaxies

Irene Mini, Massimo Meneghetti, Matteo Messa +5

We present ClumPyLen, a Python-based simulator designed to produce realistic mock observations of strongly lensed, high-redshift, clumpy star-forming galaxies. The tool models gala…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

A Pristine Star-Forming Complex at z=4.19

E. Vanzella, M. Messa, A. Zanella +14

We report the discovery of a faint (M_1700 ~ -12.2), oxygen-deficient strongly-lensed ionizing source -- dubbed LAP2 (Lensed And Pristine 2) -- at a spectroscopic redshift of z=4.1…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 9 cited

JWST spectroscopic confirmation of the Cosmic Gems arc at z=9.625 -- Insights into the small scale structure of a post-burst system

M. Messa, E. Vanzella, F. Loiacono +30

We present JWST/NIRSpec integral field spectroscopy of the Cosmic Gems arc, strongly magnified by the galaxy cluster SPT-CL J06155746. Six-hour integration using NIRSpec prism s…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Unraveling the Lyman Continuum Emission of Ion3: Insights from HST multi-band imaging and X-Shooter spectroscopy

U. Meštrić, E. Vanzella, A. Beckett +15

We provide a comprehensive analysis of Ion3, the most distant LyC leaker at , using multi-band HST photometry and X-Shooter spectroscopy. Deep HST F390W imaging probe unco…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

A new quasar strongly-lensed candidate by the galaxy cluster WHJ0400-27 with a image-separation

L. Bazzanini, G. Angora, M. Scialpi +14

Time-delay cosmography (TDC) using multiply-lensed quasars (QSOs) by galaxies has recently emerged as an independent and competitive tool to measure the value of the Hubble constan…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 13 cited

Pushing JWST to the extremes: search and scrutiny of bright galaxy candidates at z15-30

M. Castellano, A. Fontana, E. Merlin +50

We designed customized Lyman-break color selection techniques to identify galaxy candidates in the redshift ranges and . The selection was pe…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Is there a tilt in the fundamental (hyper)plane?

M. D'Addona, A. Mercurio, C. Grillo +18

We investigate the fundamental plane (FP) of selected early-type (ETG) member galaxies of the galaxy cluster PLCK G287.0+32.9 (), exploring also four-dimensional hy…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

Enhanced strong-lensing model of MACS~J0138.02155 based on new JWST and VLT/MUSE observations

Ana Acebron, Pietro Bergamini, Piero Rosati +10

We present a new parametric strong lensing analysis of the galaxy cluster MACS J0138.0-2155 at z = 0.336, the first known to show two multiply-imaged supernova (SN) siblings, SN Re…

astro-ph.GA2024

Cosmology with Supernova Encore in the lensing cluster MACS J01382155 -- Spectroscopy with MUSE

G. Granata, G. B. Caminha, S. Ertl +9

We present a spectroscopic analysis of MACS J01382155, at , the first galaxy cluster hosting two strongly-lensed supernovae (SNe), Requiem and Encore, providing us with…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 18 cited

Extreme Ionizing Properties of Metal-Poor, Muv ~ -12 Star Complex in the first Gyr

E. Vanzella, F. Loiacono, M. Messa +38

We report the serendipitous discovery of a faint (M_UV > -12.2), low-metallicity (Z ~ 0.02 Zsun), ionizing source (dubbed T2c) with a spectroscopic redshift of z=6.146. T2c is part…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 27 cited

Anatomy of a z=6 Lyman-α emitter down to parsec scales: extreme UV slopes, metal-poor regions and possibly leaking star clusters

Matteo Messa, E. Vanzella, F. Loiacono +31

We present a detailed JWST/NIRSpec and NIRCam analysis of a gravitationally-lensed galaxy () at redshift 6.14 magnified by the Hubble Frontier Field galaxy cluster MAC…

astro-ph.GA2024

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- A preview of the Euclid era through a galaxy cluster magnifying lens

H. Atek, R. Gavazzi, J. R. Weaver +200

We present the first analysis of the Euclid Early Release Observations (ERO) program that targets fields around two lensing clusters, Abell 2390 and Abell 2764. We use VIS and NISP…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

Exploring the low-mass regime of galaxy-scale strong lensing: Insights into the mass structure of cluster galaxies

Giovanni Granata, Pietro Bergamini, Claudio Grillo +8

We aim at a direct measurement of the compactness of three galaxy-scale lenses in massive clusters, testing the accuracy of the scaling laws that describe the members in strong len…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 15 cited

Euclid Preparation XXXIII. Characterization of convolutional neural networks for the identification of galaxy-galaxy strong lensing events

Euclid Collaboration, L. Leuzzi, M. Meneghetti +216

Forthcoming imaging surveys will potentially increase the number of known galaxy-scale strong lenses by several orders of magnitude. For this to happen, images of tens of millions…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 79 cited

Mass distribution in the core of MACS J1206: robust modeling from an exceptionally large sample of central multiple images

G. B. Caminha, C. Grillo, P. Rosati +24

We present a new strong lensing analysis of the galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2-0847 (MACS 1206), at z=0.44, using deep spectroscopy from CLASH-VLT and VLT/MUSE archival data in combin…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 30 cited

Joining X-ray to lensing: an accurate combined analysis of MACS J0416.12403

M. Bonamigo, C. Grillo, S. Ettori +6

We present a novel approach for a combined analysis of X-ray and gravitational lensing data and apply this technique to the merging galaxy cluster MACS J0416.12403. The method e…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 129 cited

A refined mass distribution of the cluster MACS J0416.12403 from a new large set of spectroscopic multiply lensed sources

G. B. Caminha, C. Grillo, P. Rosati +11

We report the spectroscopic confirmation of 22 new multiply lensed sources behind the Hubble Frontier Field (HFF) galaxy cluster MACS~J0416.12403 (MACS 0416), using archival dat…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 117 cited

The story of supernova 'Refsdal' told by MUSE

C. Grillo, W. Karman, S. H. Suyu +10

We present MUSE observations in the core of the HFF galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223, where the first magnified and spatially-resolved multiple images of SN 'Refsdal' at redshift 1…