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most citedMass and magnification maps for the Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields clusters: implications for high redshift studies

236 citations · 772 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.CO2025

4MOST Cosmology Redshift Survey (CRS): Clustering Properties of CRS Bright Galaxy and Luminous Red Galaxy Target Catalogues

Behnood Bandi, Antoine Rocher, Aurélien Verdier +6

The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope Cosmology Redshift Survey (4MOST CRS) will obtain 5.4 million spectroscopic redshifts over ~5700 deg^2 to map large-scale structure…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

A comprehensive separation of dark matter and baryonic mass components in galaxy clusters II: an overview of the mass distribution in Abell S1063

Benjamin Beauchesne, Benjamin Clément, Marceau Limousin +11

In the first paper of this series, we derived mass constraints on the total mass and the baryonic components of the galaxy cluster Abell S1063. The main focus was to recover stella…

astro-ph.GA2025

A comprehensive separation of dark matter and baryonic mass components in galaxy clusters I: Mass constraints from Abell S1063

Benjamin Beauchesne, Benjamin Clément, Marceau Limousin +11

In this two-part series, we present a multi-probe mass modelling method for massive galaxy clusters, designed to disentangle the contributions of individual mass components (Dark m…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 4 cited

The 4MOST-Cosmology Redshift Survey: Target Selection of Bright Galaxies and Luminous Red Galaxies

Aurelien Verdier, Antoine Rocher, Behnood Bandi +7

The Cosmology Redshift Survey of the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST-CRS) will provide redshift measurements of galaxies and quasars over 5700{\degsq} in the so…

astro-ph.CO2024

Mass & Light in Galaxy Clusters: The case of Abell 370

M. Limousin, A. Niemiec, B. Beauchesne +16

Parametric strong lensing studies of galaxy clusters often display "misleading features". This is the case in the galaxy cluster Abell 370. Using strong lensing techniques, it has…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 66 cited

ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: and Photometry of 33 Lensed Fields Built with CHArGE

Vasily Kokorev, Gabriel Brammer, Seiji Fujimoto +30

We present a set of multi-wavelength mosaics and photometric catalogs in the ALMA lensing cluster survey (ALCS) fields. The catalogs were built by reprocessing of archival data fro…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 35 cited

Deep and rapid observations of strong-lensing galaxy clusters within the sky localisation of GW170814

G. P. Smith, M. Bianconi, M. Jauzac +7

We present observations of two strong-lensing galaxy clusters located within the per cent credible sky localization maps released following LIGO-Virgo's discovery of the binar…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 140 cited

The Extraordinary Amount of Substructure in the Hubble Frontier Fields Cluster Abell 2744

M. Jauzac, D. Eckert, J. Schwinn +21

We present a joint optical/X-ray analysis of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (z=0.308). Our strong- and weak-lensing analysis within the central region of the cluster, i.e.,…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 99 cited

Strong-Lensing Analysis of MACS,J0717.5+3745 from Hubble Frontier Fields observations: How well can the mass distribution be constrained?

M. Limousin, J. Richard, E. Jullo +12

[abridged] We present a strong-lensing analysis of MACSJ0717.5+3745, based on the full depth of the Hubble Frontier Field (HFF) observations, which brings the number of multiply im…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 236 cited

Mass and magnification maps for the Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields clusters: implications for high redshift studies

J. Richard, M. Jauzac, M. Limousin +9

Extending over three Hubble Space Telescope (HST) cycles, the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) initiative constitutes the largest commitment ever of HST time to the exploration of the…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 13 cited

Dynamical analysis of strong-lensing galaxy groups at intermediate redshift

R. P. Muñoz, V. Motta, T. Verdugo +8

We present VLT spectroscopic observations of 7 discovered galaxy groups between 0.3<z<0.7. The groups were selected from the Strong Lensing Legacy Survey (SL2S), a survey that cons…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 71 cited

The Bullet cluster at its best: weighing stars, gas and dark matter

D. Paraficz, J. -P. Kneib, J. Richard +4

We present a new strong lensing mass reconstruction of the Bullet cluster (1E 0657-56) at z=0.296, based on WFC3 and ACS HST imaging and VLT/FORS2 spectroscopy. The strong lensing…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 28 cited

Herschel deep far-infrared counts through the Abell 2218 cluster-lens

B. Altieri, S. Berta, D. Lutz +35

Gravitational lensing by massive galaxy clusters allows study of the population of intrinsically faint infrared galaxies that lie below the sensitivity and confusion limits of curr…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 31 cited

Gravitational lensing and dynamics in SL2S\,J02140-0535: Probing the mass out to large radius

T. Verdugo, V. Motta, R. P. Muñoz +3

We aim to probe the mass of SL2S\,J02140-0535, a galaxy group at = 0.44 from the Strong Lensing Legacy Survey (SL2S). We combine strong lensing modeling and dynamical constrain…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 30 cited

Abell 611. II. X-ray and strong lensing analyses

A. Donnarumma, S. Ettori, M. Meneghetti +10

We present the results of our analyses of the X-ray emission and of the strong lensing systems in the relaxed galaxy cluster Abell 611 (z=0.288). We infer the X-ray mass estimate d…

astro-ph2008

A New Window of Exploration in the Mass Spectrum: Strong Lensing by Galaxy Groups in the SL2S

M. Limousin, R. Cabanac, R. Gavazzi +21

The existence of strong lensing systems with Einstein radii (Re) covering the full mass spectrum, from ~1-2" (produced by galaxy scale dark matter haloes) to >10" (produced by gala…

astro-ph2007★ 18 cited

Probing the Slope of Cluster Mass Profile with Gravitational Einstein Rings: Application to Abell 1689

H. Tu, M. Limousin, B. Fort +5

The strong lensing modelling of gravitational ``rings'' formed around massive galaxies is sensitive to the amplitude of the external shear and convergence produced by nearby mass c…