14 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…
Massive stars as gravitationally lensed transients -- Insights on the high-mass initial mass function
Sung Kei Li
A robust stellar initial mass function (IMF) is crucial in any studies related to star formation. However, the direct measurement of the stellar IMF is confined to the local univer…
Multi-copy Axion Transfer Function and Observational Implications of Effective de Broglie Scales
Jiashuo Zhang, Tom Broadhurst, Jeremy Lim +2
Ultra-light axions are viable fuzzy/wave-like dark matter (DM) candidates generically predicted by the String Axiverse paradigm with multiple particle copies, whereas most of t…
JWST's PEARLS: Temperatures of Nine Highly Magnified Stars in a Galaxy at Redshift 0.94 and Simulated Stellar Population Dependence on Stellar Metallicity and the Initial Mass Function
Hayley Williams, Patrick L. Kelly, Rogier A. Windhorst +17
We present stellar atmosphere modeling of JWST NIRCam photometry of nine highly magnified individual stars in a single galaxy at redshift z=0.94 known as the Warhol arc, which is s…