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astro-ph.GA2026

Intracluster light in the infall region of simulated protoclusters of galaxies

S. V. Werner, M. Jauzac, M. Montes +4

Intracluster light (ICL) is a diffuse stellar component in galaxy clusters, made of stars following the potential of the cluster. Despite its potential to unveil the accretion hist…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Roman eXtreme Deep Field (RXDF)

Haojing Yan, Anton M. Koekemoer, Yue Shen +127

The Roman eXtreme Deep Field (RXDF) program is one of the five General Astrophysics Survey (GAS) programs approved for observing time with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Kiloparsec-Scale Stellar Cavity in the Center of Abell402-BCG May be Caused by Dynamic Interactions with an Ultramassive Black Hole

Michael McDonald, Gourav Khullar, David Lagattuta +18

We present new observations from JWST NIRCam that reveal a striking kpc-wide cavity in the stellar distribution of the central galaxy in the cluster Abell402. Supporting data from…

astro-ph.GA2026

Caught in Swallowtails: Discovery of Two Swallowtail Image Formations in MS 0451.6-0305

Ashish K. Meena, Wenlei Chen, Lukas J. Furtak +6

We report the discovery of two swallowtail image formations at and behind the galaxy cluster MS 0451.6-0305 in JWST-NIRCam imaging. We find that in both of the ab…

astro-ph.GA2025

Highly-ionized gas in lensed z = 6.027 Little Red Dot seen through [OIII] 88m with ALMA

Kirsten K. Knudsen, Johan Richard, Mathilde Jauzac +8

Determining the physical properties of galaxies during the first billion years after the big bang is key to understanding both early galaxy evolution and how galaxies contributed t…

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.GA2025★ 4 cited

Tiny galaxies and dark substructures: exploring the "dark" subhaloes in TNG50

Jessica E. Doppel, Mathilde Jauzac, David J. Lagattuta +2

Dark matter haloes and subhaloes that host no luminous counterpart are predicted within our current understanding of galaxy formation within a CDM paradigm. Observational tests,…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). The Strong Lensing Discovery Engine D -- Double-source-plane lens candidates

Euclid Collaboration, T. Li, T. E. Collett +335

Strong gravitational lensing systems with multiple source planes are powerful tools for probing the density profiles and dark matter substructure of the galaxies. The ratio of Eins…

astro-ph.GA2025

Medium-band Astrophysics with the Grism of NIRCam In Frontier fields (MAGNIF): Spectroscopic Census of H Luminosity Functions and Cosmic Star Formation at and 6.3

Shuqi Fu, Fengwu Sun, Linhua Jiang +35

We measure H luminosity functions (LFs) at redshifts and 6.3 using the JWST MAGNIF (Medium-band Astrophysics with the Grism of NIRCam In Frontier fields) survey. MA…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 15 cited

Euclid: A complete Einstein ring in NGC 6505

C. M. O'Riordan, L. J. Oldham, A. Nersesian +195

We report the discovery of a complete Einstein ring around the elliptical galaxy NGC 6505, at . This is the first strong gravitational lens discovered in Euclid and the fi…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

BUFFALO Wild Wings: A High Precision Free-Form Lens Model of MACSJ0416 with Constraints on Dark Matter from Substructure and Highly Magnified Arcs

Derek Perera, Liliya L. R. Williams, Jori Liesenborgs +10

We present new free-form and hybrid mass reconstructions of the galaxy cluster lens MACS J0416.12403 at using the lens inversion method GRALE. The reconstructions use…

astro-ph.GA2024

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- A preview of the Euclid era through a galaxy cluster magnifying lens

H. Atek, R. Gavazzi, J. R. Weaver +200

We present the first analysis of the Euclid Early Release Observations (ERO) program that targets fields around two lensing clusters, Abell 2390 and Abell 2764. We use VIS and NISP…

astro-ph.GA2024

Identification of 40 gravitationally magnified stars in a galaxy at redshift of 0.725

Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Fengwu Sun, Jose M. Diego +44

Strong gravitational magnifications enable to detect faint background sources, resolve their internal structures, and even identify individual stars in distant galaxies. Highly mag…

astro-ph.GA2024

A complex node of the cosmic web associated with the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0600.1-2008

Lukas J. Furtak, Adi Zitrin, Johan P. Richard +18

MACS J0600.1-2008 (MACS0600) is an X-ray luminous, massive galaxy cluster at , studied previously by the REionization LensIng Cluster Survey (RELICS) and ALMA…

astro-ph.GA2023

Self-consistent Combined HST, K-band, and Spitzer Photometric Catalogs of the BUFFALO Survey Fields

Amanda Pagul, F. Javier Sánchez, Iary Davidzon +12

This manuscript presents new astronomical source catalogs using data from the BUFFALO Survey. These catalogs contain detailed information for over 100,000 astronomical sources in t…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

BUFFALO/Flashlights: Constraints on the abundance of lensed supergiant stars in the Spock galaxy at redshift 1

Jose M. Diego, Sung Kei Li, Ashish K. Meena +27

We present a constraint on the abundance of supergiant (SG) stars at redshift z approx. 1, based on recent observations of a strongly lensed arc at this redshift. First we derive a…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: Deep 1.2 mm Number Counts and Infrared Luminosity Functions at

Seiji Fujimoto, Kotaro Kohno, Masami Ouchi +40

We present a statistical study of 180 dust continuum sources identified in 33 massive cluster fields by the ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey (ALCS) over a total of 133 arcmin area…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 7 cited

Precision modeling of JWST's first cluster lens SMACSJ0723.3-7327

Guillaume Mahler, Mathilde Jauzac, Johan Richard +12

Exploiting the fundamentally achromatic nature of gravitational lensing, we present a lens model for the massive galaxy cluster SMACSJ0723.3-7323 (SMACSJ0723, z=0.388) that signifi…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 14 cited

On the gravitational lensing interpretation of three gravitational wave detections in the mass gap by LIGO and Virgo

Matteo Bianconi, Graham P. Smith, Matt Nicholl +7

We search for gravitational wave (GW) events from LIGO-Virgo's third run that may have been affected by gravitational lensing. Gravitational lensing delays the arrival of GWs, and…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 23 cited

Pilot-WINGS: An extended MUSE view of the structure of Abell 370

David J. Lagattuta, Johan Richard, Franz Erik Bauer +18

We investigate the strong-lensing cluster Abell 370 (A370) using a wide Integral Field Unit (IFU) spectroscopic mosaic from the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE). IFU spectr…

astro-ph.GA2021

Extensive Lensing Survey of Optical and Near-Infrared Dark Objects (El Sonido): HST H-Faint Galaxies behind 101 Lensing Clusters

Fengwu Sun, Eiichi Egami, Pablo G. Pérez-González +22

We present a Spitzer/IRAC survey of H-faint (, ) sources in 101 lensing cluster fields. Across a CANDELS/Wide-like survey area of 648 arcmin (e…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 35 cited

Jellyfish galaxy candidates in MACS J0717.5+3745 and thirty-nine other clusters of the DAFT/FADA and CLASH surveys

Florence Durret, Simon Chiche, Catarina Lobo +1

Galaxies in clusters undergo several phenomena such as ram pressure stripping and tidal interactions, that can trigger or quench their star formation and, in some cases, lead to ga…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 39 cited

Stellar splashback: the edge of the intracluster light

Alis J. Deason, Kyle A. Oman, Azadeh Fattahi +8

We examine the outskirts of galaxy clusters in the C-EAGLE simulations to quantify the `edges' of the stellar and dark matter distribution. The radius of the steepest slope in the…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 23 cited

Galaxy cluster cores as seen with VLT/MUSE: new strong-lensing analyses of RX J2129.4+0009, MS 0451.6-0305 & MACSJ2129.4-0741

Mathilde Jauzac, Baptiste Klein, Jean-Paul Kneib +4

We present strong-lensing analyses of three galaxy clusters, RXJ2129.4+0009 (z=0.235), MS0451.6-0305 (z=0.55), and MACSJ2129.4-0741 (z=0.589), using the powerful combination of Hub…