Strong lensing by galaxies

T Treu - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Strong lensing is a powerful tool to address three major astrophysical issues: understanding
the spatial distribution of mass at kiloparsec and subkiloparsec scale, where baryons and …

The Mass Distribution of SDSS J10044112 Revisited

M Oguri - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We present a strong lens analysis of SDSS J1004 4112, a unique quasar lens produced by
a massive cluster of galaxies at 0.68, using newly developed software for gravitational …

Probing the coevolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies using gravitationally lensed quasar hosts

CY Peng, CD Impey, HW Rix… - The Astrophysical …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
In the present-day universe, supermassive black hole masses (Script M BH) appear to be
strongly correlated with their galaxy's bulge luminosity, among other properties. In this study …

TDCOSMO-VII. Boxyness/discyness in lensing galaxies: Detectability and impact on H0

L Van de Vyvere, MR Gomer, D Sluse, D Xu… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
In the context of gravitational lensing, the density profile of lensing galaxies is often
considered to be perfectly elliptical. Potential angular structures are generally ignored …

Is every strong lens model unhappy in its own way? Uniform modelling of a sample of 13 quadruply+ imaged quasars

AJ Shajib, S Birrer, T Treu, MW Auger… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Strong-gravitational lens systems with quadruply imaged quasars (quads) are unique
probes to address several fundamental problems in cosmology and astrophysics. Although …

Gravitational lens modeling with basis sets

S Birrer, A Amara, A Refregier - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a strong lensing modeling technique based on versatile basis sets for the lens
and source planes. Our method uses high performance Monte Carlo algorithms, allows for …

Hubble constant from the cluster-lensed quasar system SDSS : Investigation of the lens model dependence

Y Liu, M Oguri, S Cao - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
As a fundamental parameter for modern cosmology, the Hubble constant H 0 is
experiencing a serious crisis. In this paper, we explore an independent approach to …

Detection of substructure with adaptive optics integral field spectroscopy of the gravitational lens B1422+ 231

AM Nierenberg, T Treu, SA Wright… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Strong gravitational lenses can be used to detect low-mass subhaloes, based on deviations
in image fluxes and positions from what can be achieved with a smooth mass distribution …

On modeling galaxy-scale strong lens systems

CR Keeton - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2010 - Springer
I review methods for modeling gravitational lens systems comprising multiple images of a
background source surrounding a foreground galaxy. In a Bayesian framework, the …

How well can cold dark matter substructures account for the observed radio flux-ratio anomalies

D Xu, D Sluse, L Gao, J Wang, C Frenk… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Discrepancies between the observed and model-predicted radio flux ratios are seen in a
number of quadruply-lensed quasars. The most favoured interpretation of these anomalies …