[HTML][HTML] Cluster lenses

JP Kneib, P Natarajan - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2011 - Springer
Clusters of galaxies are the most recently assembled, massive, bound structures in the
Universe. As predicted by General Relativity, given their masses, clusters strongly deform …

Revealing galaxy candidates out to z ∼ 16 with JWST observations of the lensing cluster SMACS0723

H Atek, M Shuntov, LJ Furtak, J Richard… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
One of the main goals of the JWST is to study the first galaxies in the Universe. We present a
systematic photometric analysis of very distant galaxies in the first JWST deep field towards …

[HTML][HTML] Strong Lensing by Galaxy Clusters

P Natarajan, LLR Williams, M Bradač, C Grillo… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Galaxy clusters as gravitational lenses play a unique role in astrophysics and cosmology:
they permit mapping the dark matter distribution on a range of scales; they reveal the …

A highly magnified star at redshift 6.2

B Welch, D Coe, JM Diego, A Zitrin, E Zackrisson… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Galaxy clusters magnify background objects through strong gravitational lensing. Typical
magnifications for lensed galaxies are factors of a few but can also be as high as tens or …

[HTML][HTML] z∼ 2–9 galaxies magnified by the Hubble Frontier Field clusters. II. Luminosity functions and constraints on a faint-end turnover

RJ Bouwens, G Illingworth, RS Ellis… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new determinations of the rest-UV luminosity functions (LFs) at z= 2–9 to
extremely low luminosities (>− 14 mag) from a sample of> 2500 lensed galaxies found …

The Frontier Fields: survey design and initial results

JM Lotz, A Koekemoer, D Coe, N Grogin… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
What are the faintest distant galaxies we can see with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
now, before the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope? This is the challenge taken …

UNCOVERing the extended strong lensing structures of Abell 2744 with the deepest JWST imaging

LJ Furtak, A Zitrin, JR Weaver, H Atek… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a new parametric lens model for the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 based
on new ultra-deep JWST imaging taken in the framework of the UNCOVER program. These …

JWST/NIRCam probes young star clusters in the reionization era sunrise arc

E Vanzella, A Claeyssens, B Welch… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Star cluster formation in the early universe and its contribution to reionization remains
largely unconstrained to date. Here we present JWST/NIRCam imaging of the most highly …

Constraining the physical properties of the first lensed z ∼ 9 − 16 galaxy candidates with JWST

LJ Furtak, M Shuntov, H Atek, A Zitrin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The first deep-field observations of the JWST have immediately yielded a surprisingly large
number of very high redshift candidates, pushing the frontier of observability well beyond z≳ …

Directly observing the galaxies likely responsible for reionization

RC Livermore, SL Finkelstein… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a new analysis of the Hubble Frontier Fields clusters Abell 2744 and MACS 0416
using wavelet decomposition to remove the cluster light, enabling the detection of highly …