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Little red dot variability over a century reveals black hole envelope via a giant Einstein cross
Zijian Zhang, Mingyu Li, Masamune Oguri +79
"Little red dots" (LRDs) represent a new population of astronomical objects uncovered by JWST whose nature remains debated. Although many LRDs are suspected as active galactic nucl…
VENUS: When Red meets Blue -- A multiply imaged Little Red Dot with an apparent blue companion behind the galaxy cluster Abell 383
Miriam Golubchik, Lukas J. Furtak, Joseph F. V. Allingham +50
We report the discovery of a doubly-imaged Little Red Dot (LRD) candidate behind the galaxy cluster Abell 383, which we dub A383-LRD1. Initially classified as a dropout galaxy in H…
Caustic crossings in giant arcs with extended dark matter objects
Djuna Croon, Benedict Crossey, Jose Maria Diego +2
Caustic-crossing stars observed in giant arcs behind galaxy clusters provide a powerful probe of dark matter substructure. While previous work has focused on point-like lenses such…
Kinematic Mapping of Giant Arcs: A New Method to Locate Lensing Critical Curves
Ruwen Zhou, Liang Dai, Lingyuan Ji +4
The vicinity of lensing critical curves features highly magnified portions of lensed galaxies. Accurate knowledge of the location and shape of the critical curve will be useful for…
VENUS: A Strongly Lensed Clumpy Galaxy at behind the Galaxy Cluster MACS J0257.1-2325
Minami Nakane, Vasily Kokorev, Seiji Fujimoto +75
We present the discovery of a strongly lensed galaxy at , dubbed the ``Misty Moons'', identified in the JWST Treasury Survey, Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored S…
PEARLS: NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Extragalactic Survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-domain Field III
Ross Silver, Francesca Civano, Xiurui Zhao +28
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time-Domain Field (TDF) has been monitored by NuSTAR and XMM-Newton with a regular cadence for five years starting i…
The Distribution of Quenched Galaxies in the Massive z = 0.87 Galaxy Cluster El Gordo
Rachel Honor, Seth Cohen, Timothy Carleton +27
El Gordo (ACT-CL J01024915) is a massive galaxy cluster with two major mass components at redshift . Using SED fitting results from JWST/NIRCam photometry, the fraction…
Strong Lensing Model and Dust Extinction Maps of the Host Galaxy of Type Ia Supernova H0pe
A. Galan, S. Schuldt, G. B. Caminha +11
Strong gravitational lensing by massive galaxy clusters offers rare opportunities to observe multiple images of distant () Type Ia supernovae (SNe) and to resolve the…
Testing Lens Models of PLCK G165.7+67.0 Using Lensed SN H0pe
Aadya Agrawal, J. D. R. Pierel, Gautham Narayan +9
Supernova H0pe is a multiply-imaged Type Ia supernova (SN~Ia) and the second lensed SN to yield a measurement of the Hubble constant by the time-delay cosmography method, finding $…
Lensed stars in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing -- a JWST prediction for the Cosmic Horseshoe
Sung Kei Li, Luke Weisenbach, Thomas E. Collett +10
We explore for the first time the possibility of detecting lensed star transients in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing systems upon repeated, deep imaging using the {\it James-Webb Spac…
A comprehensive separation of dark matter and baryonic mass components in galaxy clusters II: an overview of the mass distribution in Abell S1063
Benjamin Beauchesne, Benjamin Clément, Marceau Limousin +11
In the first paper of this series, we derived mass constraints on the total mass and the baryonic components of the galaxy cluster Abell S1063. The main focus was to recover stella…
A comprehensive separation of dark matter and baryonic mass components in galaxy clusters I: Mass constraints from Abell S1063
Benjamin Beauchesne, Benjamin Clément, Marceau Limousin +11
In this two-part series, we present a multi-probe mass modelling method for massive galaxy clusters, designed to disentangle the contributions of individual mass components (Dark m…
Globular Clusters in the Galaxy Cluster MACS0416 at z = 0.397
Jessica M. Berkheimer, Rogier A. Windhorst, William E. Harris +27
We present a photometric analysis of globular clusters (GCs) in the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 (z = 0.397) using deep JWST/NIRCam imaging from the PEARLS program. PSF…
SLICE: SPT-CL J0546-5345 -- A prominent strong-lensing cluster at
Joseph F. V. Allingham, Adi Zitrin, Miriam Golubchik +15
Massive galaxy clusters act as prominent strong-lenses. Due to a combination of observational biases, cluster evolution and lensing efficiency, most of the known cluster lenses lie…
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…
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…
Signatures of Fuzzy Dark Matter Inside Radial Critical Curves
J. M. Palencia, Paloma Morilla, Sung Kei Li +5
We investigate the strong gravitational lensing properties of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) halos, focusing on the magnification properties near radial critical curves (CCs). Using simul…
Transient star B/R ratio and star formation in lensed galaxies
Sung Kei Li, Jose M. Palencia, Jose M. Diego +8
The extreme magnification from galaxy clusters and microlenses therein allows the detection of individual, luminous stars in lensed galaxies as transient events, and hence provides…
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…
JWST lens model for A370: A very low dark matter fraction for a brightest cluster galaxy and lensing properties for the Dragon arc
Jose M. Diego, Fengwu Sun, Jose M. Palencia +8
We present a new lens model for the galaxy cluster Abell 370 based on previously spectroscopically confirmed lensed galaxies and new lensed systems identified in JWST dat…
Galaxy-scale lens search in the PEARLS NEP TDF and CEERS JWST fields
Giovanni Ferrami, Nathan J. Adams, Lewi Westcott +14
We present four galaxy scale lenses discovered in two JWST blank-fields: the ~ 54 arcmin^2 of the PEARLS North-Ecliptic-Pole Time-Domain Field (NEP TDF) and in the ~ 90 arcmin^2 of…
Microlensing at Cosmological Distances: Event Rate Predictions in the Warhol Arc of MACS 0416
J. M. Palencia, J. M. Diego, L. Dai +13
Highly magnified stars ( 100) are now outinely identified as transient events at cosmological distances thanks to microlensing by intra-cluster stars near the critical curve…
Constraining the z 1 Initial Mass Function with {\it HST} and {\it JWST} Lensed Stars in MACS J0416.1-2403
Sung Kei Li, Jose M. Diego, Ashish K. Meena +19
Our understanding of galaxy properties and evolution is contingent on knowing the initial mass function (IMF), and yet to date, the IMF is constrained only to local galaxies. Indiv…
PASSAGES: The Discovery of a Strongly Lensed Protocluster Core Candidate at Cosmic Noon
Nicholas Foo, Kevin C. Harrington, Brenda Frye +22
Investigating the processes by which galaxies rapidly build up their stellar mass during the peak of their star formation () is crucial to advancing our understanding of the…