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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…
Scanning For Dark Matter Subhalos in Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of 54 Strong Lenses
James W. Nightingale, Qiuhan He, Xiaoyue Cao +9
The cold dark matter (DM) model predicts that every galaxy contains thousands of DM subhalos; almost all other DM models include a physical process that smooths away the subhalos.…
Testing strong lensing subhalo detection with a cosmological simulation
Qiuhan He, James Nightingale, Andrew Robertson +9
Strong gravitational lensing offers a compelling test of the cold dark matter paradigm, as it allows for subhaloes with masses of M and below to be detected. W…
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…
Galaxy-galaxy strong lens perturbations: line-of-sight haloes versus lens subhaloes
Qiuhan He, Ran Li, Carlos S. Frenk +8
We rederive the number density of intervening line-of-sight haloes relative to lens subhaloes in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing observations, where these perturbers can generate dete…
Halo concentration strengthens dark matter constraints in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing analyses
Nicola C. Amorisco, James Nightingale, Qiuhan He +8
A defining prediction of the cold dark matter (CDM) cosmological model is the existence of a very large population of low-mass haloes. This population is absent in models in which…
A forward-modelling method to infer the dark matter particle mass from strong gravitational lenses
Qiuhan He, Andrew Robertson, James Nightingale +7
A fundamental prediction of the cold dark matter (CDM) model of structure formation is the existence of a vast population of dark matter haloes extending to subsolar masses. By con…