14 papers
SLICE -- Combining Strong Lensing and X-ray in AC 114. Further Insights into the Merger Scenario
Marceau Limousin, Benjamin Beauchesne, Keren Sharon +14
AC114 is a historically significant galaxy cluster, being one of the first strong lensing clusters detected from the ground in the early 1990s, prior to the launch of the HST. Desp…
Strong LensIng and Cluster Evolution (SLICE) with JWST: Early Results, Lens Models, and High-Redshift Detections
Catherine Cerny, Guillaume Mahler, Keren Sharon +24
We leverage JWST's superb resolution to derive strong lensing mass maps of 14 clusters, spanning a redshift range of and a mass range of $M_{500}\sim2-12 \times…
Non-spherical BUFFALOs: a weak lensing view of the Frontier Field clusters and associated systematics
A. Niemiec, A. Acebron, B. Beauchesne +15
Galaxy clusters are tracers of the large scale structures of the Universe, making the time evolution of their mass function dependent on key cosmological parameters, such as the co…
Locating Centers of Clusters of Galaxies with Quadruple Images: Witt's Hyperbola and a New Figure of Merit
Nixon Hanna, Paul L. Schechter, Michael A. McDonald +1
For any elliptical potential with an external parallel shear, Witt has proven that the gravitational center lies on a rectangular hyperbola derived from the image positions of a si…
JWST lens model for A370: A very low dark matter fraction for a brightest cluster galaxy and lensing properties for the Dragon arc
Jose M. Diego, Fengwu Sun, Jose M. Palencia +8
We present a new lens model for the galaxy cluster Abell 370 based on previously spectroscopically confirmed lensed galaxies and new lensed systems identified in JWST dat…
SLICE: SPT-CL J0546-5345 -- A prominent strong-lensing cluster at
Joseph F. V. Allingham, Adi Zitrin, Miriam Golubchik +15
Massive galaxy clusters act as prominent strong-lenses. Due to a combination of observational biases, cluster evolution and lensing efficiency, most of the known cluster lenses lie…