Professor Richard Massey's Outputs (11)

Efficient Point-spread Function Modeling with ShOpt.jl: A Point-spread Function Benchmarking Study with JWST NIRCam Imaging (2024)
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Berman, E. M., McCleary, J. E., Koekemoer, A. M., Franco, M., Drakos, N. E., Liu, D., Nightingale, J. W., Shuntov, M., Scognamiglio, D., Massey, R., Mahler, G., McCracken, H. J., Robertson, B. E., Faisst, A. L., Casey, C. M., & Kartaltepe, J. S. (2024). Efficient Point-spread Function Modeling with ShOpt.jl: A Point-spread Function Benchmarking Study with JWST NIRCam Imaging. Astronomical Journal, 168(4), Article 174. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad6a0f

With their high angular resolutions of 30–100 mas, large fields of view, and complex optical systems, imagers on next-generation optical/near-infrared space observatories, such as the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on the James Webb Space Telescope, p... Read More about Efficient Point-spread Function Modeling with ShOpt.jl: A Point-spread Function Benchmarking Study with JWST NIRCam Imaging.

Unveiling the Distant Universe: Characterizing z ≥ 9 Galaxies in the First Epoch of COSMOS-Web (2024)
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Franco, M., Akins, H. B., Casey, C. M., Finkelstein, S. L., Shuntov, M., Chworowsky, K., Faisst, A. L., Fujimoto, S., Ilbert, O., Koekemoer, A. M., Liu, D., Lovell, C. C., Maraston, C., McCracken, H. J., McKinney, J., Robertson, B. E., Bagley, M. B., Champagne, J. B., Cooper, O. R., Ding, X., …Zavala, J. A. (2024). Unveiling the Distant Universe: Characterizing z ≥ 9 Galaxies in the First Epoch of COSMOS-Web. The Astrophysical Journal, 973(1), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad5e6a

We report the identification of 15 galaxy candidates at z ≥ 9 using the initial COSMOS-Web JWST observations over 77 arcmin2 through four Near Infrared Camera filters (F115W, F150W, F277W, and F444W) with an overlap with the Mid-Infrared Imager (F770... Read More about Unveiling the Distant Universe: Characterizing z ≥ 9 Galaxies in the First Epoch of COSMOS-Web.

A complex node of the cosmic web associated with the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0600.1-2008 (2024)
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Furtak, L. J., Zitrin, A., Richard, J., Eckert, D., Sayers, J., Ebeling, H., Fujimoto, S., Laporte, N., Lagattuta, D., Limousin, M., Mahler, G., Meena, A. K., Andrade-Santos, F., Frye, B. L., Jauzac, M., Koekemoer, A. M., Kohno, K., Espada, D., Lu, H., Massey, R., & Niemiec, A. (2024). A complex node of the cosmic web associated with the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0600.1-2008. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533(2), 2242-2261. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1943

SuperBIT Superpressure Flight Instrument Overview and Performance: Near-diffraction-limited Astronomical Imaging from the Stratosphere (2024)
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Gill, A. S., Benton, S. J., Damaren, C. J., Everett, S. W., Fraisse, A. A., Hartley, J. W., Harvey, D., Holder, B., Huff, E. M., Jones, W. C., Lagattuta, D., Leung, J. S.-Y., Jauzac, M., Li, L., Luu, T. V. T., Massey, R., McCleary, J. E., Nagy, J. M., Netterfield, C. B., Paracha, E., …Vitorelli, A. Z. (2024). SuperBIT Superpressure Flight Instrument Overview and Performance: Near-diffraction-limited Astronomical Imaging from the Stratosphere. Astronomical Journal, 168(2), Article 85. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad5840

SuperBIT was a 0.5 m near-UV to near-infrared wide-field telescope that launched on a NASA superpressure balloon into the stratosphere from New Zealand for a 45-night flight. SuperBIT acquired multiband images of galaxy clusters to study the properti... Read More about SuperBIT Superpressure Flight Instrument Overview and Performance: Near-diffraction-limited Astronomical Imaging from the Stratosphere.

The COSMOS-Web ring: In-depth characterization of an Einstein ring lensing system at z ∼ 2 (2024)
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Mercier, W., Shuntov, M., Gavazzi, R., Nightingale, J. W., Arango, R., Ilbert, O., Amvrosiadis, A., Ciesla, L., Casey, C. M., Jin, S., Faisst, A. L., Andika, I. T., Drakos, N. E., Enia, A., Franco, M., Gillman, S., Gozaliasl, G., Hayward, C. C., Huertas-Company, M., Kartaltepe, J. S., …Vijayan, A. P. (2024). The COSMOS-Web ring: In-depth characterization of an Einstein ring lensing system at z ∼ 2. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 687, Article A61. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202348095

Aims. We provide an in-depth analysis of the COSMOS-Web ring, an Einstein ring at z ≈ 2 that we serendipitously discovered during the data reduction of the COSMOS-Web survey and that could be the most distant lens discovered to date.

Methods. We e... Read More about The COSMOS-Web ring: In-depth characterization of an Einstein ring lensing system at z ∼ 2.

Unveiling lens light complexity with a novel multi-Gaussian expansion approach for strong gravitational lensing (2024)
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He, Q., Nightingale, J. W., Amvrosiadis, A., Robertson, A., Cole, S., Frenk, C. S., Massey, R., Li, R., Cao, X., Lange, S. C., & França, J. P. C. (2024). Unveiling lens light complexity with a novel multi-Gaussian expansion approach for strong gravitational lensing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532(2), 2441-2462. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1577

In a strong gravitational lensing system, the distorted light from a source is analysed to infer the properties of the lens. However, light emitted by the lens itself can contaminate the image of the source, introducing systematic errors in the analy... Read More about Unveiling lens light complexity with a novel multi-Gaussian expansion approach for strong gravitational lensing.

Strong gravitational lensing’s ‘external shear’ is not shear (2024)
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Etherington, A., Nightingale, J., Massey, R., Tam, S.-I., Cao, X., Niemiec, A., He, Q., Robertson, A., Li, R., Amvrosiadis, A., Cole, S., Diego, J., Frenk, C., Frye, B., Harvey, D., Jauzac, M., Koekemoer, A., Lagattuta, D., Lange, S., Limousin, M., …Steinhardt, C. (2024). Strong gravitational lensing’s ‘external shear’ is not shear. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531(3), 3684-3697. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1375

The distribution of mass in galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses is often modelled as an elliptical power-law plus ‘external shear’, which notionally accounts for neighbouring galaxies and cosmic shear along our line of sight. A small amount of e... Read More about Strong gravitational lensing’s ‘external shear’ is not shear.

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Unveiling the morphology of two Milky Way globular clusters out to their periphery (2024)
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Massari, D., Dalessandro, E., Erkal, D., Balbinot, E., Bovy, J., McDonald, I., Ferguson, A., Larsen, S., Lancon, A., Annibali, F., Goldman, B., Kuzma, P., Voggel, K., Saifollahi, T., Cuillandre, J.-C., Schirmer, M., Kluge, M., Altieri, B., Amara, A., Andreon, S., …Scott, D. (in press). Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Unveiling the morphology of two Milky Way globular clusters out to their periphery. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202449696

Hydrodynamical simulations of merging galaxy clusters: giant dark matter particle colliders, powered by gravity (2024)
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Sirks, E. L., Harvey, D., Massey, R., Oman, K. A., Robertson, A., Frenk, C., Everett, S., Gill, A. S., Lagattuta, D., & McCleary, J. (2024). Hydrodynamical simulations of merging galaxy clusters: giant dark matter particle colliders, powered by gravity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 530(3), 3160-3170. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1012

Terrestrial particle accelerators collide charged particles, then watch the trajectory of outgoing debris – but they cannot manipulate dark matter. Fortunately, dark matter is the main component of galaxy clusters, which are continuously pulled toget... Read More about Hydrodynamical simulations of merging galaxy clusters: giant dark matter particle colliders, powered by gravity.

Euclid: Validation of the MontePython forecasting tools (2024)
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Casas, S., Lesgourgues, J., Schöneberg, N., Sabarish, V. M., Rathmann, L., Doerenkamp, M., Archidiacono, M., Bellini, E., Clesse, S., Frusciante, N., Martinelli, M., Pace, F., Sapone, D., Sakr, Z., Blanchard, A., Brinckmann, T., Camera, S., Carbone, C., Ilić, S., Markovic, K., …Veropalumbo, A. (2024). Euclid: Validation of the MontePython forecasting tools. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 682, Article A90. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346772

Context. The Euclid mission of the European Space Agency will perform a survey of weak lensing cosmic shear and galaxy clustering in order to constrain cosmological models and fundamental physics.

Aims. We expand and adjust the mock Euclid likelih... Read More about Euclid: Validation of the MontePython forecasting tools.

Weak gravitational lensing measurements of Abell 2744 using JWST and shear measurement algorithm pyRRG-JWST (2024)
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Harvey, D. R., & Massey, R. (2024). Weak gravitational lensing measurements of Abell 2744 using JWST and shear measurement algorithm pyRRG-JWST. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529(2), 802-809. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae370

We update the publicly available weak lensing shear measurement algorithm pyRRG for the JWST, and apply it to UNCOVER DR1 imaging of galaxy cluster Abell 2744. At short wavelengths (⁠
m), shear measurements are consistent between independent observa... Read More about Weak gravitational lensing measurements of Abell 2744 using JWST and shear measurement algorithm pyRRG-JWST.