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Galaxy-galaxy lensing is a specific type of weak (and occasionally strong) gravitational lensing, in which the foreground object responsible for distorting the shapes of background galaxies is itself an individual field galaxy (as opposed to a galaxy cluster or the large-scale structure of the cosmos). Of the three typical mass regimes in weak ...
Another big part of weak lensing result is to calibrate the redshift of the source galaxies. In December 2020 and June 2021, DES team published two papers showing their results about using weak lensing to calibrate the redshift of the source galaxies in order to mapping the matter density field with gravitational lensing. [39] [40]
Weak gravitational lensing around isolated spiral and elliptical galaxies confirms the gravitational field of such galaxies follows Milgrom's law. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] This corresponds to flat rotation curves out to distances of 1 Mpc.
In 2009, weak gravitational lensing was used to extend the mass-X-ray-luminosity relation to older and smaller structures than was previously possible to improve measurements of distant galaxies. [29] As of 2013 the most distant gravitational lens galaxy, J1000+0221, had been found using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Ordinary quantum field theories, which form the basis of modern elementary particle physics, are defined in flat Minkowski space, which is an excellent approximation when it comes to describing the behavior of microscopic particles in weak gravitational fields like those found on Earth. [185]
Analysis [2] of the motions of 293 galaxies in the cluster field suggested that Abell 520 was a cluster forming at the crossing of three filaments of the large scale structure. The surprising substructure of Abell 520 was reported in 2007 from a weak gravitational lensing study based on Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope (CFHT) imaging data.
The Mice Galaxies NGC 4676. A galactic tide is a tidal force experienced by objects subject to the gravitational field of a galaxy such as the Milky Way.Particular areas of interest concerning galactic tides include galactic collisions, the disruption of dwarf or satellite galaxies, and the Milky Way's tidal effect on the Oort cloud of the Solar System.
Both in the weak field limit (as in the Solar System) and with the stronger fields present in systems of binary pulsars the predictions of general relativity have been extremely well tested. In February 2016, the Advanced LIGO team announced that they had directly detected gravitational waves from a black hole merger. [1]