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Strong lensing of transients by clusters of galaxies: From cosmic telescopes to cosmic microscopes

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Over the past 2–3 decades, gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters has played various key roles in astronomy and astrophysics. These include, primarily, mapping the otherwise-invisible dark matter distribution in the clusters or weighing them for constraining structure formation and cosmology; as well as enabling a deeper view into high-redshift galaxies, thanks to lensing magnification. Over the past few years there have been some new, exciting developments that allow for more unprecedented science using strong lensing — involving caustic crossing events and highly magnified distant stars (most notably perhaps Earendel, a single highly magnified star at z=6.2!), or lensed transients such as supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, fast radio bursts, and gravitational waves. In this talk I will review some of these advancements, as well as take the opportunity to mention some relevant programs in which we are involved.

This talk is part of the Institute of Astronomy Colloquia series.

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