lenstronomy II: A gravitational lensing software ecosystem
Abstract
lenstronomy is an Astropy-affiliated Python package for gravitational lensing simulations and analyses. lenstronomy was introduced by Birrer and Amara (2018) and is based on the linear basis set approach by Birrer et a. (2015). The user and developer base of lenstronomy has substantially grown since then, and the software has become an integral part of a wide range of recent analyses, such as measuring the Hubble constant with time-delay strong lensing or constraining the nature of dark matter from resolved and unresolved small scale lensing distortion statistics. The modular design has allowed the community to incorporate innovative new methods, as well as to develop enhanced software and wrappers with more specific aims on top of the lenstronomy API. Through community engagement and involvement, lenstronomy has become a foundation of an ecosystem of affiliated packages extending the original scope of the software and proving its robustness and applicability at the forefront of the strong gravitational lensing community in an open source and reproducible manner.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2106.05976,
title = {lenstronomy II: A gravitational lensing software ecosystem},
author = {Simon Birrer and Anowar J. Shajib and Daniel Gilman and Aymeric Galan and Jelle Aalbers and Martin Millon and Robert Morgan and Giulia Pagano and Ji Won Park and Luca Teodori and Nicolas Tessore and Madison Ueland and Lyne Van de Vyvere and Sebastian Wagner-Carena and Ewoud Wempe and Lilan Yang and Xuheng Ding and Thomas Schmidt and Dominique Sluse and Ming Zhang and Adam Amara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.05976},
year = {2021}
}
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published by JOSS. Software available at https://github.com/sibirrer/lenstronomy. Comments, issues and pull requests welcome!