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The BUFFALO Survey : The Subhalo Mass Function for Abell 2744 with Strong+Weak Gravitational Lensing
Nency R. Patel, Mathilde Jauzac, Anna Niemiec +16
We present a combined strong and weak gravitational lensing mass model of the massive merging galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (z = 0.308). The mass reconstruction combines strong-lensing…
Lensing in the Blue IV: The First Weak Gravitational Lensing Maps from the Stratosphere
Sayan Saha, Maya Amit, Jacqueline E. McCleary +42
The Super-Pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) completed its science flight in April 2023, obtaining imaging data for 30 galaxy clusters. In this work, we present th…
Cosmic Structures in CDM and SIDM
Sut-Ieng Tam
The standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) model has achieved remarkable success in explaining the formation and evolution of cosmic structures on large scales, supported by a wide…
Weak-lensing Shear-Selected Galaxy Clusters from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program: III. A precision cosmological sample enabled by optical confirmation
I-Non Chiu, Kai-Feng Chen, Masamune Oguri +9
We develop fCAMIRA (forced-mode CAMIRA), a tool for optical cluster confirmation, and apply it to a sample of 129 weak-lensing (WL) shear-selected galaxy clusters identified in ape…
Multi-sensor fusion for fine-guidance and milliarcsecond-level attitude estimation of balloon-borne telescope
Philippe Voyer, Maya Amit, Steven J. Benton +44
Balloon-borne telescopes rely on fine-guidance systems to achieve milliarcsecond image stability despite residual disturbances from the balloon environment. In these systems, the F…
Lensing in the Blue III: Weak Lensing Shape Catalogs of 30 Merging Galaxy Clusters
Sayan Saha, Jacqueline E. McCleary, Spencer W. Everett +38
We present the weak gravitational lensing dataset from the Super-pressure Balloon-Borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT), which imaged 30 galaxy clusters during its 45 night flight in…
Simulation-Based Cosmological Mass Calibration of XXL Galaxy Clusters using HSC Weak Lensing
Sut-Ieng Tam, Keiichi Umetsu, Adam Amara +13
We present a cosmological analysis of the X-ray-selected galaxy cluster sample from the XXL survey, employing a simulation-based inference (SBI) framework to jointly constrain cosm…
The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey. The Weak-Lensing Mass Calibration and the Stellar Mass-to-Halo Mass Relation from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program
I-Non Chiu, Vittorio Ghirardini, Sebastian Grandis +23
We present the weak-lensing mass calibration and constrain the BCG (brightest cluster galaxy) stellar-mass-to-halo-mass-and-redshift () relation for a s…
Data downloaded via parachute from a NASA super-pressure balloon
Ellen L. Sirks, Richard Massey, Ajay S. Gill +40
In April to May 2023, the superBIT telescope was lifted to the Earth's stratosphere by a helium-filled super-pressure balloon, to acquire astronomical imaging from above (99.5% of)…
Beyond the Ultra-deep Frontier Fields And Legacy Observations (BUFFALO): a high-resolution strong + weak-lensing view of Abell 370
Anna Niemiec, Mathilde Jauzac, Dominique Eckert +17
The HST treasury program BUFFALO provides extended wide-field imaging of the six Hubble Frontier Fields galaxy clusters. Here we present the combined strong and weak-lensing analys…
Lensing in the Blue II: Estimating the Sensitivity of Stratospheric Balloons to Weak Gravitational Lensing
Jacqueline E. McCleary, Spencer W. Everett, Mohamed M. Shaaban +23
The Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) is a diffraction-limited, wide-field, 0.5 m, near-infrared to near-ultraviolet observatory designed to exploit the stra…
Strong gravitational lensing's 'external shear' is not shear
Amy Etherington, James W. Nightingale, Richard Massey +19
The distribution of mass in galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses is often modelled as an elliptical power law plus 'external shear', which notionally accounts for neighbouring…
Testing the Collisionless Nature of Dark Matter with the Radial Acceleration Relation in Galaxy Clusters
Sut-Ieng Tam, Keiichi Umetsu, Andrew Robertson +1
The radial acceleration relation (RAR) represents a tight empirical relation between the inferred total and baryonic centripetal accelerations, …
Ram pressure stripping in the z~0.5 galaxy cluster MS 0451.6-0305
Florence Durret, Lucie Degott, Catarina. Lobo +3
The pressure exerted by the ambient hot X-ray gas on cluster galaxies can lead to the presence of ram pressure stripped (RPS) galaxies, characterized by asymmetric shapes, and, in…
Line-of-sight Elongation and Hydrostatic Mass Bias of the Frontier Fields Galaxy Cluster Abell 370
Keiichi Umetsu, Shutaro Ueda, Bau-Ching Hsieh +6
We present a detailed weak-lensing and X-ray study of the Frontier Fields galaxy cluster Abell 370, one of the most massive known lenses on the sky, using wide-field BRz Subaru/Spr…
Automated galaxy-galaxy strong lens modelling: no lens left behind
Amy Etherington, James W. Nightingale, Richard Massey +9
The distribution of dark and luminous matter can be mapped around galaxies that gravitationally lens background objects into arcs or Einstein rings. New surveys will soon observe h…
SkyPy: A package for modelling the Universe
Adam Amara, Lucia F. de la Bella, Simon Birrer +18
SkyPy is an open-source Python package for simulating the astrophysical sky. It comprises a library of physical and empirical models across a range of observables and a command-lin…
Likelihood-free Forward Modeling for Cluster Weak Lensing and Cosmology
Sut-Ieng Tam, Keiichi Umetsu, Adam Amara
Likelihood-free inference provides a rigorous approach to preform Bayesian analysis using forward simulations only. The main advantage of likelihood-free methods is its ability to…
Reconciling galaxy cluster shapes, measured by theorists vs observers
David Harvey, Andrew Robertson, Sut-Ieng Tam +4
If properly calibrated, the shapes of galaxy clusters can be used to investigate many physical processes: from feedback and quenching of star formation, to the nature of dark matte…
Optical night sky brightness measurements from the stratosphere
Ajay Gill, Steven J. Benton, Anthony M. Brown +27
This paper presents optical night sky brightness measurements from the stratosphere using CCD images taken with the Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT). The d…
The distribution of dark matter and gas spanning six megaparsecs around the post-merger galaxy cluster MS0451-03
Sut-Ieng Tam, Mathilde Jauzac, Richard Massey +11
Using the largest mosaic of Hubble Space Telescope images around a galaxy cluster, we map the distribution of dark matter throughout a Mpc area centred on the…
Mapping dark matter and finding filaments: calibration of lensing analysis techniques on simulated data
Sut-Ieng Tam, Richard Massey, Mathilde Jauzac +1
We quantify the performance of mass mapping techniques on mock imaging and gravitational lensing data of galaxy clusters. The optimum method depends upon the scientific goal. We as…
Download by Parachute: Retrieval of Assets from High Altitude Balloons
E. L. Sirks, P. Clark, R. J. Massey +27
We present a publicly-available toolkit of flight-proven hardware and software to retrieve 5 TB of data or small physical samples from a stratospheric balloon platform. Before laun…
The BUFFALO HST Survey
Charles L. Steinhardt, Mathilde Jauzac, Ana Acebron +91
The Beyond Ultra-deep Frontier Fields and Legacy Observations (BUFFALO) is a 101 orbit + 101 parallel Cycle 25 Hubble Space Telescope Treasury program taking data from 2018-2020. B…