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Gravitational Lensing Predictions from Wave Simulations of Fuzzy Dark Matter
Jiajun Zhou, Zhengxiang Li, Amruth Alfred +3
In the cold dark matter paradigm, ultra-light particles are emerging as strong contenders to conventional massive particles. A unique prediction of dark matter comprising such ultr…
The Research Impact of the Jodrell Bank Observatory and Other Facilities affected by the UK Science Funding Cuts in 2025
Rommulus Francis Lewis, Amruth Alfred, Hetansh Shah
The United Kingdom Research and Innovation body and the Science and Technology Facilities Council recently announced funding cuts to facilities at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, spe…
The Subversive Role of Excessive External Shear in Concealing Lensing Anomalies
Amruth Alfred, Shashpal Singh, Rommulus Francis Lewis +5
To best reproduce observed multiply-lensed lensed images, lens models usually incorporate shear attributed to objects unrelated to the lensing galaxy (i.e., external shear): whethe…
Astrophysics Wrapped 2025: Year-in-Review of Every Astrophysics arXiv Paper from 2025
Rommulus Francis Lewis, Hetansh Shah, Amruth Alfred
Astrophysics has experienced an overwhelming increase in research output, as is evident from the year-over-year increase in the number of research papers submitted to the online re…
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…
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…
Dark Matter distinguished by skewed microlensing in the "Dragon Arc"
Tom Broadhurst, Sung Kei Li, Amruth Alfred +18
Microlensed stars recently discovered by JWST & HST follow closely the winding critical curve of A370 along all sections of the ``Dragon Arc" traversed by the critical curve. These…
Flashlights: Transients among Gravitationally-Lensed Star Clusters in the Dragon Arc. I. Stellar Microlensing vs Stellar Outbursts
Sung Kei Li, Jose M. Diego, Patrick L. Kelly +8
We report the discovery of transients among star clusters in a distant galaxy that is gravitationally lensed by a foreground galaxy cluster, and explore whether these transients co…
Flashlights: More than A Dozen High-Significance Microlensing Events of Extremely Magnified Stars in Galaxies at Redshifts z=0.7-1.5
Patrick L. Kelly, Wenlei Chen, Amruth Alfred +23
Once only accessible in nearby galaxies, we can now study individual stars across much of the observable universe aided by galaxy-cluster gravitational lenses. When a star, compact…
Flashlights: An Off-Caustic Lensed Star at Redshift = 1.26 in Abell 370
Ashish Kumar Meena, Wenlei Chen, Adi Zitrin +10
We report the discovery of a transient seen in a strongly lensed arc at redshift in \emph{Hubble Space Telescope} imaging of the Abell 370 galaxy cluster. The tr…