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most citedThe Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy - an overview

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astro-ph.GA2026

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). Exploring the complexity of quenching processes across time, environment, and mass through recently quenched galaxies

Euclid Collaboration, Z. Mao, L. Pozzetti +308

Recently quenched galaxies (RQGs) provide insights into galaxy quenching. We present a photometric and spectroscopic analysis of RQGs using the first Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1)…

astro-ph.CO2026

Euclid preparation. The shape of halo profiles in CDM and non-standard cosmologies

Euclid Collaboration, L. Pizzuti, G. Y. Ferron +304

We study the shape of three-dimensional and projected dark-matter halo profiles extracted from cosmological -body simulations in CDM and non-standard cosmologies, using the \…

astro-ph.IM2024

Euclid: Searches for strong gravitational lenses using convolutional neural nets in Early Release Observations of the Perseus field

R. Pearce-Casey, B. C. Nagam, J. Wilde +204

The Euclid Wide Survey (EWS) is predicted to find approximately 170 000 galaxy-galaxy strong lenses from its lifetime observation of 14 000 deg^2 of the sky. Detecting this many le…

astro-ph.CO2024

Correcting for Selection Biases in the Determination of the Hubble Constant from Time-Delay Cosmography

Tian Li, Thomas E. Collett, Philip J. Marshall +4

The time delay between multiple images of strongly lensed quasars has been used to infer the Hubble constant. The primary systematic uncertainty for time-delay cosmography is the m…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 20 cited

Euclid: The Early Release Observations Lens Search Experiment

J. A. Acevedo Barroso, C. M. O'Riordan, B. Clément +206

We investigated the ability of the Euclid telescope to detect galaxy-scale gravitational lenses. To do so, we performed a systematic visual inspection of the Eucl…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Find the haystacks, then look for needles: The rate of strongly lensed transients in galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses

Ana Sainz de Murieta, Thomas E. Collett, Mark R. Magee +5

The time delay between appearances of multiple images of a gravitationally lensed supernova (glSN) is sensitive to the Hubble constant, . As well as time delays, a lensed host…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 5 cited

Strong gravitational lenses from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Anowar J. Shajib, Graham P. Smith, Simon Birrer +6

Like many areas of astrophysics and cosmology, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be transformational for almost all the applications of strong lensing, thanks to the dramatic incr…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 550 cited

Euclid. I. Overview of the Euclid mission

Euclid Collaboration, Y. Mellier, Abdurro'uf +1134

The current standard model of cosmology successfully describes a variety of measurements, but the nature of its main ingredients, dark matter and dark energy, remains unknown. Eucl…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 51 cited

Lensed Type Ia Supernova "Encore" at z=2: The First Instance of Two Multiply-Imaged Supernovae in the Same Host Galaxy

J. D. R. Pierel, A. B. Newman, S. Dhawan +60

A bright (=24 mag), supernova (SN) candidate was discovered in JWST/NIRCam imaging acquired on 2023 November 17. The SN is quintuply-imaged as a result o…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

How to Break the Mass Sheet Degeneracy with the Lightcurves of Microlensed Type Ia Supernovae

Luke Weisenbach, Thomas Collett, Ana Sainz de Murieta +4

The standardizable nature of gravitationally lensed Type Ia supernovae (glSNe Ia) makes them an attractive target for time delay cosmography, since a source with known luminosity b…

astro-ph.GA2024

Two-dimensional kinematics and dynamical modelling of the 'Jackpot' gravitational lens from deep MUSE observations

Hannah C. Turner, Russell J. Smith, Thomas E. Collett

We present results from the first spatially resolved kinematic and dynamical modelling analysis of the unique SDSSJ0946+1006 ('Jackpot') triple-source lens system, where a single m…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 34 cited

Gravitational imaging through a triple source plane lens: revisiting the CDM-defying dark subhalo in SDSSJ0946+1006

Daniel J. Ballard, Wolfgang J. R. Enzi, Thomas E. Collett +2

The CDM paradigm successfully explains the large-scale structure of the Universe, but is less well constrained on sub-galactic scales. Gravitational lens modelling has been used…

astro-ph.CO2023

Cosmology from Large Populations of Galaxy-Galaxy Strong Gravitational Lenses

Tian Li, Thomas E. Collett, Coleman M. Krawczyk +1

We present a forecast analysis on the feasibility of measuring the cosmological parameters with a large number of galaxy-galaxy scale strong gravitational lensing systems. Future w…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Lensed type Ia supernovae in light of SN Zwicky and iPTF16geu

Ana Sainz de Murieta, Thomas E. Collett, Mark R. Magee +3

Strong gravitationally lensed supernovae (glSNe) are a powerful probe to obtain a measure of the expansion rate of the Universe, but they are also extremely rare. To date, only two…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 7 cited

A search for gravitationally lensed supernovae within the Zwicky Transient Facility public survey

M. R. Magee, A. Sainz de Murieta, T. E. Collett +1

Strong gravitational lensing of supernovae is exceedingly rare. To date, only a handful of lensed supernovae are known. Despite this, lensed supernovae have emerged as a promising…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 50 cited

Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae

Sherry H. Suyu, Ariel Goobar, Thomas Collett +2

Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (SNe) are emerging as a new probe of cosmology and astrophysics in recent years. We provide an overview of this nascent…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 20 cited

The impact of human expert visual inspection on the discovery of strong gravitational lenses

Karina Rojas, Thomas E. Collett, Daniel Ballard +53

We investigate the ability of human 'expert' classifiers to identify strong gravitational lens candidates in Dark Energy Survey like imaging. We recruited a total of 55 people that…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 14 cited

Testing Cosmology with Double Source Lensing

Divij Sharma, Thomas E. Collett, Eric V. Linder

Double source lensing provides a dimensionless ratio of distance ratios, a "remote viewing" of cosmology through distances relative to the gravitational lens, beyond the observer.…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 13 cited

Deep Drilling in the Time Domain with DECam: Survey Characterization

Melissa L. Graham, Robert A. Knop, Thomas Kennedy +41

This paper presents a new optical imaging survey of four deep drilling fields (DDFs), two Galactic and two extragalactic, with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the 4 meter Blanco…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 52 cited

Uncovering a population of gravitational lens galaxies with magnified standard candle SN Zwicky

Ariel Goobar, Joel Johansson, Steve Schulze +35

Detecting gravitationally lensed supernovae is among the biggest challenges in astronomy. It involves a combination of two very rare phenomena: catching the transient signal of a s…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 31 cited

Strong Lensing by Galaxies

A. J. Shajib, G. Vernardos, T. E. Collett +7

Strong gravitational lensing at the galaxy scale is a valuable tool for various applications in astrophysics and cosmology. The primary uses of galaxy-scale lensing are to study el…

astro-ph.CO2022

DeepZipper II: Searching for Lensed Supernovae in Dark Energy Survey Data with Deep Learning

Robert Morgan, B. Nord, K. Bechtol +64

Gravitationally lensed supernovae (LSNe) are important probes of cosmic expansion, but they remain rare and difficult to find. Current cosmic surveys likely contain and 5-10 LSNe i…

astro-ph.GA2022

The AGEL Survey: Spectroscopic Confirmation of Strong Gravitational Lenses in the DES and DECaLS Fields Selected Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Kim-Vy H. Tran, Anishya Harshan, Karl Glazebrook +13

We present spectroscopic confirmation of candidate strong gravitational lenses using the Keck Observatory and Very Large Telescope as part of our ASTRO 3D Galaxy Evolution with Len…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 2 cited

Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Enabling Flagship Dark Energy Experiments to Reach their Full Potential

Jonathan A. Blazek, Doug Clowe, Thomas E. Collett +25

A new generation of powerful dark energy experiments will open new vistas for cosmology in the next decade. However, these projects cannot reach their utmost potential without data…