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Finding gravitational lenses at the dawn of the new generation of wide-field surveys

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Strong gravitational lensing has become one of the main astrophysical probes of the extragalactic universe. It allows precise measurements of deflector galaxy masses. It acts as a cosmic telescope, revealing sources otherwise too dim or small to study. Whe ...

EPFL2025

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We report the spectroscopic confirmation of a merging pair of massive quiescent galaxies at z = 3.44. Using JWST observations, we confirm that the two galaxies lie at a projected separation of 4.5 kpc with a velocity offset of similar to 680 km s(-1) (delt ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2025

Evidence of star cluster migration and merger in dwarf galaxies

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Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are the densest stellar systems in the Universe. These clusters can be found at the centre of all galaxy types but tend to favour galaxies of intermediate stellar mass around 109M⊙ (refs. 1,2). At present, two main processes ar ...

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The effect of measurement uncertainties on the inferred stability of planes of satellite galaxies

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Context. Observations have revealed that the Milky Way, Andromeda, Centaurus A, and possibly other galaxies host spatially thin and kinematically coherent planes of satellites. Such structures are highly improbable within the standard ΛCDM cosmological mod ...

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The KALEIDOSCOPE survey: a new strong and weak gravitational lensing view of the massive galaxy cluster MACS J1423.8+2404

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We present a combined strong and weak gravitational-lensing analysis of the massive galaxy cluster MACS J1423.8+2404 (z = 0.545, MACS J1423 hereafter), one of the most dynamically relaxed and massive cool-core clusters discovered in the MAssive Cluster Sur ...

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Stellar Metallicities and Gradients in the Faint M31 Satellites Andromeda XVI and Andromeda XXVIII

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We present ∼300 stellar metallicity measurements in two faint M31 dwarf galaxies, Andromeda XVI (M V = −7.5) and Andromeda XXVIII (M V = -8.8), derived using metallicity-sensitive calcium H and K narrowband Hubble Space Telescope imaging. These are the fir ...

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CEERS Epoch 1 NIRCam Imaging: Reduction Methods and Simulations Enabling Early JWST Science Results

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We present the data release and data reduction process for the Epoch 1 NIRCam observations for the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS). These data consist of NIRCam imaging in six broadband filters (F115W, F150W, F200W, F277W, F356W and F ...

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Chemical cartography of the Milky Way

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Euclid preparation XXV. The Euclid Morphology Challenge: Towards model-fitting photometry for billions of galaxies

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan

The European Space Agency's Euclid mission will provide high-quality imaging for about 1.5 billion galaxies. A software pipeline to automatically process and analyse such a huge amount of data in real time is being developed by the Science Ground Segment o ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2023

Reeling in the Whirlpool galaxy: Distance to M 51 clarified through Cepheids and the type IIP supernova 2005cs

Richard Irving Anderson

Context. The distance to the Whirlpool galaxy, M 51, is still debated, even though the galaxy has been studied in great detail. Current estimates range from 6.02 to 9.09 Mpc, and different methods yield discrepant results. No Cepheid distance has been publ ...

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Jonathan Andrew Blazek

We constrain cosmological parameters and galaxy-bias parameters using the combination of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) year-3 data. We describe our modeling framework and choice of scales analyze ...

American Physical Society2022

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Jonathan Andrew Blazek

We present a cosmological analysis using the second and third moments of the weak lensing mass (convergence) maps from the first three years of data (Y3) data of the Dark Energy Survey. The survey spans an effective area of 4139 square degrees and uses the ...

American Physical Society2022

IX. Systematic comparison between lens modelling software programs:Time-delay prediction for WGD 2038-4008

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The importance of alternative methods for measuring the Hubble constant, such as time-delay cosmography, is highlighted by the recent Hubble tension. It is paramount to thoroughly investigate and rule out systematic biases in all measurement methods before ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2022

Structure Evolution of Graphitic Surface upon Oxidation: Insights by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

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Oxidation of graphitic materials has been studied for more than a century to synthesize materials such as graphene oxide, nanoporous graphene, and to cut or unzip carbon nanotubes. However, the understanding of the early stages of oxidation is limited to t ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

The need for a multi-purpose, optical-NIR space facility after HST and JWST The case for an ESA-led HabEx Workhorse Camera

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Astrophysical applications of gravitationally lensed quasars : from dark matter halos to the structure of quasar accretion disks

Alexander Patrick Eigenbrod

Gravitational lensing describes how light is deflected as it passes in the vicinity of a mass distribution. The amplitude of the deflection is proportional to the mass of the deflector, called "gravitational lens", and is generally weak, even for large mas ...

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