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Strong Lensing is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in galaxies and clusters and a relevant tool for cosmography. Analyses of strong gravitational lenses with Deep Learning have become a popular approach due to these astronomical…

In the coming years, a new generation of sky surveys, in particular, Euclid Space Telescope (2022), and the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST, 2023) will discover more than 200,000 new strong gravitational lenses,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Ronan Legin , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault Levasseur , Benjamin Wandelt

The Euclid telescope, due for launch in 2021, will perform an imaging and slitless spectroscopy survey over half the sky, to map baryon wiggles and weak lensing. During the survey Euclid is expected to resolve 100,000 strong gravitational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-17 Andrew Davies , Stephen Serjeant , Jane M. Bromley

Quantifying the parameters and corresponding uncertainties of hundreds of strongly lensed quasar systems holds the key to resolving one of the most important scientific questions: the Hubble constant ($H_{0}$) tension. The commonly used…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-11 Kuan-Wei Huang , Geoff Chih-Fan Chen , Po-Wen Chang , Sheng-Chieh Lin , Chia-Jung Hsu , Vishal Thengane , Joshua Yao-Yu Lin

The Early Release Observations (ERO) from Euclid have detected several new galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses, with the all-sky survey expected to find 170,000 new systems, greatly enhancing studies of dark matter, dark energy, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-28 B. C. Nagam , J. A. Acevedo Barroso , J. Wilde , I. T. Andika , A. Manjón-García , R. Pearce-Casey , D. Stern , J. W. Nightingale , L. A. Moustakas , K. McCarthy , E. Moravec , L. Leuzzi , K. Rojas , S. Serjeant , T. E. Collett , P. Matavulj , M. Walmsley , B. Clément , C. Tortora , R. Gavazzi , R. B. Metcalf , C. M. O'Riordan , G. Verdoes Kleijn , L. V. E. Koopmans , E. A. Valentijn , V. Busillo , S. Schuldt , F. Courbin , G. Vernardos , M. Meneghetti , A. Díaz-Sánchez , J. M. Diego , L. R. Ecker , T. T. Thai , A. R. Cooray , H. M. Courtois , L. Delchambre , G. Despali , D. Sluse , L. Ulivi , A. Melo , P. Corcho-Caballero , B. Altieri , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , H. Aussel , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , P. Battaglia , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , A. Caillat , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , A. M. Di Giorgio , J. Dinis , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , M. Fabricius , M. Farina , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , K. George , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , P. Gómez-Alvarez , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , J. Hoar , W. Holmes , I. Hook , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , B. Joachimi , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , B. Kubik , K. Kuijken , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , R. Laureijs , D. Le Mignant , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , E. Medinaceli , M. Melchior , Y. Mellier , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , R. C. Nichol , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , A. G. Sánchez , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , M. Schirmer , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. Skottfelt , L. Stanco , J. -L. Starck , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , D. Tavagnacco , A. N. Taylor , H. I. Teplitz , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , A. Tsyganov , I. Tutusaus , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , A. Zacchei , E. Zucca , C. Burigana , A. Mora , M. Pöntinen , V. Scottez

We perform a semi-automated search for strong gravitational lensing systems in the 9,000 deg$^2$ Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS), part of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (Dey et al.). The combination of the depth and breadth of…

We present spectroscopic confirmation of candidate strong gravitational lenses using the Keck Observatory and Very Large Telescope as part of our ASTRO 3D Galaxy Evolution with Lenses (AGEL) survey. We confirm that 1) search methods using…

We apply a novel model based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to identify gravitationally-lensed galaxies in multi-band imaging of the Hyper Suprime Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) Survey. The trained model is applied to a…

Decoding human activity accurately from wearable sensors can aid in applications related to healthcare and context awareness. The present approaches in this domain use recurrent and/or convolutional models to capture the spatio-temporal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Satya P. Singh , Aimé Lay-Ekuakille , Deepak Gangwar , Madan Kumar Sharma , Sukrit Gupta

Convolutional networks have been the paradigm of choice in many computer vision applications. The convolution operation however has a significant weakness in that it only operates on a local neighborhood, thus missing global information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Irwan Bello , Barret Zoph , Ashish Vaswani , Jonathon Shlens , Quoc V. Le

In this paper we develop a new unsupervised machine learning technique comprised of a feature extractor, a convolutional autoencoder (CAE), and a clustering algorithm consisting of a Bayesian Gaussian mixture model (BGM). We apply this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Ting-Yun Cheng , Nan Li , Christopher J. Conselice , Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca , Simon Dye , Robert B. Metcalf

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies is a powerful tool for studying cosmology and galaxy structure. The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) will revolutionize this field by discovering up to $\sim$100,000 galaxy-scale strong lenses, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Hengyu Wu , Yun Chen , Tonghua Liu , Xiaoyue Cao , Tian Li , Hui Li , Nan Li , Ran Li , Tengpeng Xu

[Abridged] We exploit the clustering of massive galaxies to perform a high efficiency imaging search for gravitational lenses. Our dataset comprises 44 fields imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 Elisabeth R. Newton , Philip J. Marshall , Tommaso Treu

Quantifying image distortions caused by strong gravitational lensing and estimating the corresponding matter distribution in lensing galaxies has been primarily performed by maximum likelihood modeling of observations. This is typically a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Yashar D. Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault Levasseur , Philip J. Marshall

This research studies the impact of high-quality training datasets on the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in detecting strong gravitational lenses. We stress the importance of data diversity and representativeness,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Samira Rezaei , Amirmohammad Chegeni , Bharath Chowdhary Nagam , J. P. McKean , Mitra Baratchi , Koen Kuijken , Léon V. E. Koopmans

This paper presents a novel keypoints-based attention mechanism for visual recognition in still images. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for recognizing images with distinctive classes have shown great success, but their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Asish Bera , Zachary Wharton , Yonghuai Liu , Nik Bessis , Ardhendu Behera

We present a new sample of galaxy-scale strong gravitational-lens candidates, selected from 904 square degrees of Data Release 4 of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS), i.e., the "Lenses in the Kilo-Degree Survey" (LinKS) sample. We apply two…

A total of 10 good candidates for gravitational lensing have been discovered in the WFPC2 images from the HST Medium Deep Survey (MDS) and archival primary observations. These candidate lenses are unique HST discoveries, i.e. they are faint…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. U. Ratnatunga , R. E. Griffiths , E. J. Ostrander

Convolutional Neutral Networks have been successfully applied in searching for strong lensing systems, leading to discoveries of new candidates from large surveys. On the other hand, systematic investigations about their robustness are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Zizhao He , Xinzhong Er , Qian Long , Dezi Liu , Xiangkun Liu , Ziwei Li , Yun Liu , Wenqaing Deng , Zuhui Fan

Strong lensing has developed into an important astrophysical tool for probing both cosmology and galaxies (their structure, formation, and evolution). Using the gravitational lensing theory and cluster mass distribution model, we try to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shuo Cao , Yu Pan , Marek Biesiada , Wlodzimierz Godlowski , Zong-Hong Zhu