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astro-ph.CO2026

How much can shape degeneracies affect the Hubble constant measurement?

Ashish K. Meena, Prasenjit Saha, Liliya L. R. Williams +2

Cluster lens models are constrained almost entirely by observed lensed image positions, leaving a large space of mass perturbations with arbitrary amplitudes such that they reprodu…

astro-ph.CO2026

The BUFFALO Survey : The Subhalo Mass Function for Abell 2744 with Strong+Weak Gravitational Lensing

Nency R. Patel, Mathilde Jauzac, Anna Niemiec +16

We present a combined strong and weak gravitational lensing mass model of the massive merging galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (z = 0.308). The mass reconstruction combines strong-lensing…

astro-ph.CO2026

Shape Degeneracies: the likely culprit for the differences between lens mass models of galaxy clusters

Liliya L. R. Williams, Derek C. Perera, Jori Liesenborgs +3

Sky-projected mass distributions of galaxy clusters are widely used to constrain particle properties of dark matter, to magnify in flux and angular extent high redshift background…

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.CO2025★ 2 cited

Dents in the Mirror: A Novel Probe of Dark Matter Substructure in Galaxy Clusters from the Astrometric Asymmetry of Lensed Arcs

Derek Perera, Daniel Gilman, Liliya L. R. Williams +5

Astrometric perturbations of lensed arcs behind galaxy clusters have been recently suggested as promising probes of small-scale () dark matter substructure.…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Testing Light Unaffiliated Mass Clumps in MACS 0416 on galaxy and galaxy cluster scales using JWST

Marceau Limousin, Derek Perera, Gregor Rihtarsic +2

Light unaffiliated mass clumps (LUMCs), i.e. dark matter (DM) components without any stellar counterparts, have been reported in strong lensing mass reconstructions of MACS 0416, b…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 6 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

Constraining the z 1 Initial Mass Function with {\it HST} and {\it JWST} Lensed Stars in MACS J0416.1-2403

Sung Kei Li, Jose M. Diego, Ashish K. Meena +19

Our understanding of galaxy properties and evolution is contingent on knowing the initial mass function (IMF), and yet to date, the IMF is constrained only to local galaxies. Indiv…