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most citedPyAutoLens: Open-Source Strong Gravitational Lensing

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astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

CSST Strong Lensing Preparation: Cosmological Constraints Forecast from CSST Galaxy-Scale Strong Lensing

Hengyu Wu, Yun Chen, Tonghua Liu +6

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies is a powerful tool for studying cosmology and galaxy structure. The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) will revolutionize this field by d…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 4 cited

CURLING -- II. Improvement on the Inference from Pixelized Cluster Strong Lens Modeling

Yushan Xie, Huanyuan Shan, Yiping Shu +9

Strongly lensed supernovae (glSNe) provide a powerful, independent method to measure the Hubble constant, , through time delays between their multiple images. The accuracy o…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

CSST Strong Lensing Preparation: Fast Modeling of Galaxy-Galaxy Strong Lenses in the Big Data Era

Xiaoyue Cao, Ran Li, Nan Li +4

Galaxy-galaxy strong lensing provides a powerful probe of galaxy formation, evolution, and the properties of dark matter and dark energy. However, conventional lens-modeling approa…

astro-ph.CO2024

The measurement of the splashback radius of dark matter halo

Weiwei Xu, Huanyuan Shan, Ran Li +4

In the hierarchical evolution framework of cosmology, larger halos grow through matter accretion and halo mergers. To clarify the halo evolution, we need to define the halo mass an…

astro-ph.CO2024

CURLING - I. The Influence of Point-like Image Approximation on the Outcomes of Cluster Strong Lens Modeling

Yushan Xie, Huanyuan Shan, Nan Li +11

Cluster-scale strong lensing is a powerful tool for exploring the properties of dark matter and constraining cosmological models. However, due to the complex parameter space, pixel…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

CSST Strong Lensing Preparation: Forecasting the galaxy-galaxy strong lensing population for the China Space Station Telescope

Xiaoyue Cao, Ran Li, Nan Li +8

Galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing (GGSL) is a powerful probe for the formation and evolution of galaxies and cosmology, while the sample size of GGSLs leads to considerabl…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 8 cited

Assessing Mass Loss and Stellar-to-Halo Mass Ratio of Satellite Galaxies: A Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing Approach Utilizing DECaLS DR8 Data

Chunxiang Wang, Ran Li, Huanyuan Shan +9

The galaxy-galaxy lensing technique allows us to measure the subhalo mass of satellite galaxies, studying their mass loss and evolution within galaxy clusters and providing direct…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

MaNGA DynPop -- IV. Stacked total density profile of galaxy groups and clusters from combining dynamical models of integral-field stellar kinematics and galaxy-galaxy lensing

Chunxiang Wang, Ran Li, Kai Zhu +9

We present the measurement of total and stellar/dark matter decomposed mass density profile around a sample of galaxy groups and clusters with dynamical masses derived from integra…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 4 cited

CSST WL preparation I: forecast the impact from non-Gaussian covariances and requirements on systematics-control

Ji Yao, Huanyuan Shan, Ran Li +11

The precise estimation of the statistical errors and accurate removal of the systematical errors are the two major challenges for the stage IV cosmic shear surveys. We explore thei…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 91 cited

PyAutoLens: Open-Source Strong Gravitational Lensing

James. W. Nightingale, Richard G. Hayes, Ashley Kelly +14

Strong gravitational lensing, which can make a background source galaxy appears multiple times due to its light rays being deflected by the mass of one or more foreground lens gala…