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20172026
most citedA halo model approach for mock catalogs of time-variable strong gravitational lenses

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32 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Can Blue UV-Bright Galaxies Drive Reionization at Cosmic Dawn? An Galaxy with at

Yunjing Wu, Sijia Cai, Yongda Zhu +28

We revisit EBG-1, a gravitationally lensed galaxy at , using newly obtained deep (14 hr) JWST/NIRSpec G235M () spectroscopy. EBG-1 is one of the bluest gala…

astro-ph.GA2026

SN Helios: A Multiply Imaged Type II Supernova Opening Time-Delay Cosmography beyond redshift of 3

Seiji Fujimoto, Conor Larison, Justin D. R. Pierel +64

We report the discovery and spectroscopic confirmation of SN Helios, a strongly lensed, multiply imaged Type II supernova (SN) at behind the galaxy cluster RXC J0018.5+162…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

Little red dots as a cosmological probe: constraining with quasi-periodic pulsations

Zijian Zhang, Kohei Inayoshi, Masamune Oguri +4

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered a population of ``little red dots'' (LRDs) at , potentially representing early supermassive black holes embedded in…

astro-ph.CO2026

SN 2022riv in RX J2129: Discovery, Spectroscopic Classification, and Microlensing of a Strongly Lensed Type Ia Supernova from JWST and HST Observations

Birendra Dhanasingham, Patrick L. Kelly, Wenlei Chen +27

The multiply imaged SN 2022riv was discovered through a search of galaxy cluster fields as part of a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) SNAP program to find highly magnified stars. The s…

astro-ph.CO2026

SLSim: a strong lensing population simulation package

Narayan Khadka, Simon Birrer, Henry Best +45

Gravitational lensing offers unique insights into cosmology by bending light around massive objects. Strong gravitational lensing, in particular, produces magnified and often multi…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 1 cited

VENUS: Strong-lensing model of MACS J1931.8-2635 -- revealing the farthest multiply imaged supernova

Joseph F. V. Allingham, Adi Zitrin, Vasily Kokorev +42

We present a parametric strong-lensing model for the galaxy cluster MACS J1931.8-2635 (), accompanying the detection of the spectroscopically confirmed SN Eos at $z = 5…

astro-ph.HE2026

A spectroscopically confirmed, strongly lensed, metal-poor Type II supernova at z = 5.13

David A. Coulter, Conor Larison, Justin D. R. Pierel +88

Observing supernovae (SNe) in the early Universe (z > 3) provides a window into how both galaxies and individual stars have evolved over cosmic time, yet a detailed study of high-r…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

VENUS: Two Faint Little Red Dots Separated by Hidden in a Single Lensed Galaxy at

Hiroto Yanagisawa, Masami Ouchi, Miriam Golubchik +47

We report the identification of a pair of faint little red dots (LRDs), dubbed Red Eyes, in a strongly-lensed galaxy at behind the PLCKG004.5-10.5 cluster, identified from…

astro-ph.GA2025

High-Redshift Galaxy Candidates at z > 6 as Revealed by JWST Observations of MACS0647

Keduse Worku, Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao, Dan Coe +9

We present a catalog of 57 high-redshift galaxy candidates, including 14 spectroscopic confirmations ( -- 9.25), 2 Little Red Dots (, 5.81), and 2 interlo…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

The stellar and dark matter distributions in early-type galaxies measured by stacked weak gravitational lensing

Momoka Fujikawa, Masamune Oguri

We investigate stellar mass and central dark matter density profiles of photometric luminous red galaxies with stellar masses of using weak gravitation…

astro-ph.GA2025

ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: Molecular Gas Properties of Line-Emitting Galaxies from a Blind Survey

Kanako Narita, Bunyo Hatsukade, Seiji Fujimoto +16

We present results of a blind search for line-emitting galaxies using ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey data. We detected seven line emitters, one of which is [C\,{\sc ii}] at $z = 6.071…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Hubble constant from the improved lens modeling of cluster-lensed supernova Refsdal with new spectroscopic redshifts and the Jackknife method

Yuting Liu, Masamune Oguri

Time-delay cosmology offers an alternative approach to measuring the Hubble constant (), which is distinct from the cosmic distance ladder and cosmic microwave background radi…

astro-ph.CO2025

Constraining the lensing dispersion from the angular clustering of binary black hole mergers

Fumihiro Chuman, Masamune Oguri

Gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries provide direct measurements of luminosity distances and serve as a powerful probe of the high-redshift Universe. In addition t…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Dust-obscured Galaxies with Broken Power-law Spectral Energy Distributions Discovered by UNIONS

Taketo Yoshida, Tohru Nagao, Yoshiki Toba +11

We report on the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of infrared-bright dust-obscured galaxies (DOGs) with . Using photometry from the deep and wide…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

The Jackknife method as a new approach to validate strong lens mass models

Shun Nishida, Masamune Oguri, Yoshinobu Fudamoto +1

The accuracy of a mass model in the strong lensing analysis is crucial for unbiased predictions of physical quantities such as magnifications and time delays. While the mass model…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

ALMA Observations of [OI]145um and [NII]205um Emission lines from Star-Forming Galaxies at

Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Akio K. Inoue, Rychard Bouwens +21

We present results of new observations of [OI]145um and [NII]205um emission lines from four star-forming galaxies at redshifts between and that have previous detect…

astro-ph.GA2025

Medium-band Astrophysics with the Grism of NIRCam In Frontier fields (MAGNIF): Spectroscopic Census of H Luminosity Functions and Cosmic Star Formation at and 6.3

Shuqi Fu, Fengwu Sun, Linhua Jiang +35

We measure H luminosity functions (LFs) at redshifts and 6.3 using the JWST MAGNIF (Medium-band Astrophysics with the Grism of NIRCam In Frontier fields) survey. MA…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

A stellar dynamical mass measurement of an inactive black hole at redshift 2

Andrew B. Newman, Meng Gu, Sirio Belli +34

Supermassive black holes and their host galaxies grow together over time, producing correlations between the black hole mass and various galaxy properties. Determining the evolutio…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 8 cited

Cosmology with supernova Encore in the strong lensing cluster MACS J01382155: photometry, cluster members, and lens mass model

S. Ertl, S. H. Suyu, S. Schuldt +23

The strongly lensed Supernova (SN) Encore at a redshift of , discovered behind the galaxy cluster MACS J01382155 at , provides a rare opportunity for time-de…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Rates of Strongly Lensed Tidal Disruption Events

E. Mamuzic, T. Ryu, S. H. Suyu +4

In the coming years, surveys such as the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) are expected to increase the number of observed Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) s…

astro-ph.CO2024

Constraints on primordial black holes from the observed number of Icarus-like ultrahigh magnification events

Hiroki Kawai, Masamune Oguri

Icarus is an individual star observed near the macro-critical curve of the MACS J1149 cluster, with the magnification factor estimated to be an order of thousands. Since microlense…