Nov 16 – 21, 2025
Tsung-Dao Lee Institute
Asia/Shanghai timezone

Probing dark matter and galaxy evolution with galaxy-galaxy strong lensing in galaxy clusters

Nov 19, 2025, 9:30 AM
30m
Tianwen Hall

Tianwen Hall

Talk Galaxy Formation and Evolution Galaxies 3

Speaker

Massimo Meneghetti (INAF-OAS)

Description

Strong lensing mass reconstructions of several galaxy clusters obtained by combining imaging from HST and JWST and spectroscopy from MUSE show that cluster galaxies are much more compact than found in high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations. In this talk, I will discuss the possible origins of this discrepancy, whether it can be due to how galaxy formation is modeled in the simulations, to biases in the mass reconstructions, or to wrong assumptions about the nature of dark matter.

Primary author

Massimo Meneghetti (INAF-OAS)

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