Astrophysical: Gravitational lensing

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    First tentative detection of anisotropy in the QSO distribution around nearby edge-on spiral galaxies
    Aims:To check whether the polar angle distribution of QSOs around nearby spiral galaxies is isotropic or not. Methods: A statistical analysis of the polar angle...
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    Four sub-Jovian-mass planets detected by high-cadence microlensing surveys
    Aims: With the aim of finding short-term planetary signals, we investigated the data collected from current high-cadence microlensing surveys. Methods: From...
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    Full orbital solution for the binary system in the northern Galactic disc microlensing event Gaia16aye
    Gaia16aye was a binary microlensing event discovered in the direction towards the northern Galactic disc and was one of the first microlensing events detected...
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    Gaia Focused Product Release: A catalogue of sources around quasars to search for strongly lensed quasars
    Context. Strongly lensed quasars are fundamental sources for cosmology. The Gaia space mission covers the entire sky with the unprecedented resolution of 0.18″...
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    Galaxy-galaxy lensing with the DES-CMASS catalogue: measurement and constraints on the galaxy-matter cross-correlation
    The DMASS sample is a photometric sample from the DES Year 1 data set designed to replicate the properties of the CMASS sample from BOSS, in support of a joint...
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    GLITP optical monitoring of QSO 0957+561: VR light curves and variability
    The Gravitational Lenses International Time Project (GLITP) collaboration observed the first gravitational lens system (QSO 0957+561) from 2000 February 3 to...
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    Globular clusters systems and their host dark matter halos
    In the Λ-CDM galaxy formation paradigm, the star formation history of a galaxy is coupled to the total mass of its dark matter halo through processes like...
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    Gravitational Lens Models Based on Submillimeter Array Imaging of Herschel-selected Strongly Lensed Sub-millimeter Galaxies at z > 1.5
    Strong gravitational lenses are now being routinely discovered in wide-field surveys at (sub-)millimeter wavelengths. We present Submillimeter Array (SMA) high...
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    Gravitational Lensing as Cosmological Tools
    Gravitational lensing is a powerful astrophysical tool which allow us to studythe dark sector of the universe. Some of these applications include from thestudy...