16 papers
First Statistical Study of Over 100 Magnified Stellar Events at Redshift with JWST
J. M. Palencia, Fengwu Sun, J. M. Diego +25
Highly magnified stars at cosmological distances () become detectable thanks to microlensing by intracluster stars near the critical curves of galaxy clusters. Multi…
Extragalactic microlensing through Ultra Diffuse Galaxies
Sung Kei Li, Thomas Broadhurst, Jose M. Diego +3
Stellar microlensing is a powerful method to constrain compact dark matter models, uncover binary stars, and exoplanets during caustic crossing events. At cosmological distances, {…
Lensed stars in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing -- a JWST prediction for the Cosmic Horseshoe
Sung Kei Li, Luke Weisenbach, Thomas E. Collett +10
We explore for the first time the possibility of detecting lensed star transients in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing systems upon repeated, deep imaging using the {\it James-Webb Spac…
Caustic crossings in giant arcs with extended dark matter objects
Djuna Croon, Benedict Crossey, Jose Maria Diego +2
Caustic-crossing stars observed in giant arcs behind galaxy clusters provide a powerful probe of dark matter substructure. While previous work has focused on point-like lenses such…
A tight relation between the distribution of globular clusters and dark matter in AS1063
J. M. Diego, C. Goolsby, C. J. Conselice +1
Based on deep high resolution JWST images of AS1063, and after a careful masking of artifacts, extended features in the cluster, and background galaxies (including known lensed one…
Mirror images of lensed star clusters with mismatched spectral energy distributions: A possible signature of top-heavy stellar initial mass functions and extreme stars in high-redshift star clusters
Erik Zackrisson, Jose M. Diego, Jose M. Palencia +4
Strongly lensed star clusters have recently been detected up to redshift in galaxy cluster fields using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). When pairs of mirror im…