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We present an improved inverse ray-shooting code based on GPUs for generating microlensing magnification maps. In addition to introducing GPUs for acceleration, we put the efforts in two aspects: (i) A standard circular lens plane is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Wenwen Zheng , Xuechun Chen , Guoliang Li , Hou-zun Chen

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently exploded in popularity thanks to their broad applicability to ubiquitous graph-related problems such as quantum chemistry, drug discovery, and high energy physics. However, meeting demand for novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Stefan Abi-Karam , Yuqi He , Rishov Sarkar , Lakshmi Sathidevi , Zihang Qiao , Cong Hao

Strong-lensing images provide a wealth of information both about the magnified source and about the dark matter distribution in the lens. Precision analyses of these images can be used to constrain the nature of dark matter. However, this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Konstantin Karchev , Adam Coogan , Christoph Weniger

The exponential growth in data has intensified the demand for computational power to train large-scale deep learning models. However, the rapid growth in model size and complexity raises concerns about equal and fair access to computational…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Lisan Al Amin , Md Ismail Hossain , Rupak Kumar Das , Mahbubul Islam , Abdulaziz Tabbakh

We present GFORS, a GPU-accelerated framework for large binary integer programs. It couples a first-order (PDHG-style) routine that guides the search in the continuous relaxation with a randomized, feasibility-aware sampling module that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Ningji Wei , Jiaming Liang

In strong gravitational lens systems, the light bending is usually dominated by one main galaxy, but may be affected by other mass along the line of sight (LOS). Shear and convergence can be used to approximate the contributions from less…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-09 Curtis McCully , Charles R. Keeton , Kenneth C. Wong , Ann I. Zabludoff

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown great superiority on non-Euclidean graph data, achieving ground-breaking performance on various graph-related tasks. As a practical solution to train GNN on large graphs with billions of nodes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zeyu Zhu , Peisong Wang , Qinghao Hu , Gang Li , Xiaoyao Liang , Jian Cheng

Gravitational waves (GWs) can be distorted by intervening mass distributions while propagating, leading to frequency-dependent modulations that imprint a distinct signature on the observed waveforms. Bayesian inference for GW lensing with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Juno C. L. Chan , Lorena Magaña Zertuche , Jose María Ezquiaga , Rico K. L. Lo , Luka Vujeva , Joey Bowman

Like light, gravitational waves can be gravitationally lensed by massive objects along their travel path. Strong lensing produces several images from the same binary coalescence and is forecasted to have a promising rate in ground-based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-16 Justin Janquart , Otto A. Hannuksela , K. Haris , Chris Van Den Broeck

Bayesian inference is the workhorse of gravitational-wave astronomy, for example, determining the mass and spins of merging black holes, revealing the neutron star equation of state, and unveiling the population properties of compact…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Colm Talbot , Rory Smith , Eric Thrane , Gregory B. Poole

Strong gravitational lensing forms multiple, time delayed images of cosmological sources, with the "focal length" of the lens serving as a cosmological distance probe. Robust estimation of the time delay distance can tightly constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-10 Alireza Hojjati , Eric V. Linder

The precision reached by current and forthcoming strong-lensing observations requires to accurately model various perturbations to the main deflector. Hitherto, theoretical models have been developed to account for either cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-10 Pierre Fleury , Julien Larena , Jean-Philippe Uzan

Strong gravitational lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) occurs when the GWs from a compact binary system travel near a massive object. The mismatch between a lensed signal and unlensed templates determines whether lensing can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-24 Saif Ali , Evangelos Stoikos , Evan Meade , Michael Kesden , Lindsay King

In this paper, we present a GPU-accelerated prototype implementation of a portable ultrasound imaging pipeline on an Nvidia CLARA AGX development kit. The raw data is acquired with nonsteered plane wave transmit using a programmable…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 V. Arun Kumar , A. N. Madhavanunni , Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker

We present a novel method to efficiently search for long-duration gravitational wave transients emitted by new-born neutron star remnants of binary neutron star coalescences or supernovae. The detection of these long-transient gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-11 Joan-René Mérou , Rodrigo Tenorio , Alicia M. Sintes

The impending discovery and monitoring of hundreds of new gravitationally lensed quasars and supernovae from upcoming ground and space based large area surveys such as LSST, \textit{Euclid}, and \textit{Roman} necessitates the development…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Luke Weisenbach

Strong lensing of background galaxies provides important information about the matter distribution around lens galaxies. Traditional modelling of such strong lenses is both time and resource intensive. Fast and automated analysis methods…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-09 Priyanka Gawade , Anupreeta More , Surhud More , Akisato Kimura , Alessandro Sonnenfeld , Masamune Oguri , Naoki Yoshida

With the advent of new spectroscopic surveys from ground and space, observing up to hundreds of millions of galaxies, spectra classification will become overwhelming for standard analysis techniques. To prepare for this challenge, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-08 Fucheng Zhong , Rui Li , Nicola R. Napolitano