Strong lensing by galaxy clusters

Natarajan, P. (author), Bradač, Maruša (author)

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 properties of high and intermediate redshift background galaxies that would otherwise be unreachable with telescopes; they constrain the particle nature of dark matter and are a powerful probe of global cosmological parameters, like the Hubble constant. In this review we summarize the current status of cluster lensing observations and the insights they provide, and offer a glimpse into the capabilities that ongoing, and the upcoming next generation of telescopes and surveys will deliver. While many open questions remain, cluster lensing promises to remain at the forefront of discoveries in astrophysics and cosmology.

• Language: English
• Keywords: gravitational lensing, strong gravitational lensing, galaxy clusters, astrophysics
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FMF - Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 51 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 220, iss. 2, art. 19
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-179103
• ISSN on article: 1572-9672
• DOI: 10.1007/s11214-024-01051-8
• COBISS.SI-ID: 267442435
• Publication date in RUL: 05.02.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Space science reviews
• Shortened title: Space sci. rev.
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• ISSN: 1572-9672
• COBISS.SI-ID: 513244953

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: astrofizika, jate galaksij, gravitacijsko lečenje