<p>Wide separation gravitational lens systems are good candidates to probe the matter (luminous+dark) distribution in massive halos. Investigation of two wide separation lens systems is carried out. MG 2016+112 is a quadruply ...

<p>Weak gravitational lensing is one of the most promising tools to analyze the nature of dark energy and dark matter. In order to constrain cosmological parameters with this method a good theoretical understanding of the ...

Weak gravitational lensing, i.e. the distortion of images of distant galaxies due to the deflection of light rays in gravitational fields, is a powerful method to study the matter distribution in the Universe. It can be ...

Galaxies were formed from primordial baryonic matter within the gravitational potential of the dark matter. Today a confusing wealth of different galaxy populations is known. Explaining the emergence of this zoo of galaxy ...

Following from the theory of General Relativity, light-bundles are deflected and differentially distorted while passing through the gravitational potential of matter inhomogeneities. The gravitational lensing effect caused ...

In recent years, the distribution of galaxies in the Universe could be measured up to large distances and over a significant part of the sky. The analysis of this large-scale structure contains a wealth of cosmological ...

In the last decade weak gravitational lensing by the large-scale structure of the Universe, also called cosmic shear, has become an important tool to constrain cosmological parameters. Despite this success there remain ...

One of the main problems in cosmology is to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies, galaxy clusters, and large-scale structure. Whereas the basics of the current Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradigm for structure ...

In the past years cosmology, the science of the universe as a whole, has seen tremendous progress. The Lambda-Cold-Dark-Matter scenario is widely accepted as the standard model of cosmology describing the evolution of the ...

Cosmology has recently entered an era of increasingly rich observational data sets, all being in agreement with a cosmological standard model that features only a small number of free parameters. One of the most powerful ...