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20232026
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7 papers

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.CO2025

Multi-band observation of lensed gravitational waves as a probe of small-mass dark matter halos

Katsuya T. Abe, Shun Arai, Ryoto Inui +3

The gravitational lensing effect of gravitational waves (GWs) has been extensively discussed as a probe of small-mass dark matter halos, which can provide missing information about…

astro-ph.CO2024

A halo model approach for mock catalogs of time-variable strong gravitational lenses

Katsuya T. Abe, Masamune Oguri, Simon Birrer +5

Time delays in both galaxy- and cluster-scale strong gravitational lenses have recently attracted a lot of attention in the context of the Hubble tension. Future wide-field cadence…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

astro-ph.GA2024

Identification of 40 gravitationally magnified stars in a galaxy at redshift of 0.725

Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Fengwu Sun, Jose M. Diego +44

Strong gravitational magnifications enable to detect faint background sources, resolve their internal structures, and even identify individual stars in distant galaxies. Highly mag…

astro-ph.CO2024

CMB lensing from early-formed dark matter halos

Katsuya T. Abe, Hiroyuki Tashiro

Some theoretical models for the early Universe predict a spike-type enhancement in the primordial power spectrum on a small scale, which would result in forming early-formed dark m…