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astro-ph.CO2026

Gravitational lensing time delay beyond the Shapiro/geometry split

Luca Teodori, Kfir Blum, Zhaoyu Bai

Time delays are a key observable in strong gravitational lensing systems. Their theoretical expression is usually written as a sum of a geometrical delay and a Shapiro delay, with…

hep-ph2026

Influence of tides and self-gravity on Ultra-Light Dark Matter Bounds from Dwarf Galaxies

Andrea Caputo, Luca Teodori

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies provide some of the most sensitive astrophysical probes of ultra-light dark matter (ULDM), but the inferred constraints can be affected by two important s…

astro-ph.GA2026

The approximate gravitational lensing multiple plane mass sheet degeneracy

Luca Teodori

Strong gravitational lensing has to deal with many modeling degeneracies, the most notable being the Mass Sheet Degeneracy (MSD). We review the MSD when one needs to model more len…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 8 cited

Bracketing the soliton-halo relation of ultralight dark matter

Kfir Blum, Marco Gorghetto, Edward Hardy +1

In theories of ultralight dark matter, solitons form in the inner regions of galactic halos. The observational implications of these depend on the soliton mass. Various relations b…

astro-ph.GA2025

Ultra-Light Dark Matter Simulations and Stellar Dynamics: Tension in Dwarf Galaxies for eV

Luca Teodori, Andrea Caputo, Kfir Blum

We present numerical simulations of dark matter and stellar dynamics in ultra light dark matter halos tailored to mimic dwarf galaxies. An important effect we observe is the dynami…

astro-ph.CO2024

AxionH0graphy: hunting for ultralight dark matter with cosmographic H signal

Kfir Blum, Luca Teodori

If ultralight boson fields exist, then vacuum misalignment populates them with nonzero relic abundance. For a broad range of particle mass the field condenses into fuzzy cores…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 4 cited

Host group degeneracy in gravitational lensing time delay determination of

Luca Teodori, Kfir Blum

Massive elliptical galaxies, that serve as lenses in gravitational lensing time delay measurements of the Hubble parameter , often reside in a host group. We consider degenera…

astro-ph.CO2022

Comments on the mass sheet degeneracy in cosmography analyses

Luca Teodori, Kfir Blum, Emanuele Castorina +2

We make a number of comments regarding modeling degeneracies in strong lensing measurements of the Hubble parameter . The first point concerns the impact of weak lensing assoc…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 191 cited

lenstronomy II: A gravitational lensing software ecosystem

Simon Birrer, Anowar J. Shajib, Daniel Gilman +18

lenstronomy is an Astropy-affiliated Python package for gravitational lensing simulations and analyses. lenstronomy was introduced by Birrer and Amara (2018) and is based on the li…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 25 cited

Gravitational lensing tension from ultralight axion galactic cores

Kfir Blum, Luca Teodori

Gravitational lensing time delays offer an avenue to measure the Hubble parameter , with some analyses suggesting a tension with early-type probes of . The lensing measur…