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A small fraction of the gravitational-wave (GW) signals that will be detected by second and third generation detectors are expected to be strongly lensed by galaxies and clusters, producing multiple observable copies. While optimal Bayesian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Srashti Goyal , Harikrishnan D. , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Parameswaran Ajith

The vast quantity of strong galaxy-galaxy gravitational lenses expected by future large-scale surveys necessitates the development of automated methods to efficiently model their mass profiles. For this purpose, we train an approximate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 James Pearson , Jacob Maresca , Nan Li , Simon Dye

The Euclid Wide Survey (EWS) is expected to identify of order $100\,000$ galaxy-galaxy strong lenses across $14\,000$deg$^2$. The Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1) of $63.1$deg$^2$ Euclid images provides an excellent opportunity to test our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-20 Euclid Collaboration , P. Holloway , A. Verma , M. Walmsley , P. J. Marshall , A. More , T. E. Collett , N. E. P. Lines , L. Leuzzi , A. Manjón-García , S. H. Vincken , J. Wilde , R. Pearce-Casey , I. T. Andika , J. A. Acevedo Barroso , T. Li , A. Melo , R. B. Metcalf , K. Rojas , B. Clément , H. Degaudenzi , F. Courbin , G. Despali , R. Gavazzi , S. Schuldt , B. C. Nagam , D. Sluse , C. Tortora , H. Domínguez Sánchez , K. Finner , A. Galan , C. Giocoli , L. Guzzo , N. B. Hogg , K. Jahnke , S. Kruk , G. Mahler , M. Millon , P. Nugent , J. Pearson , L. R. Ecker , A. Sainz de Murieta , C. Scarlata , S. Serjeant , A. Sonnenfeld , C. Spiniello , T. T. Thai , L. Ulivi , L. Weisenbach , M. Zumalacarregui , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , H. Aussel , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , P. Battaglia , R. Bender , A. Biviano , A. Bonchi , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , G. Cañas-Herrera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , K. C. Chambers , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , G. De Lucia , A. M. Di Giorgio , C. Dolding , H. Dole , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , A. Ealet , S. Escoffier , M. Farina , R. Farinelli , F. Faustini , S. Ferriol , F. Finelli , S. Fotopoulou , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , K. George , B. Gillis , P. Gómez-Alvarez , J. Gracia-Carpio , B. R. Granett , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , J. Hoar , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , M. Jhabvala , B. Joachimi , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , B. Kubik , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , Q. Le Boulc'h , A. M. C. Le Brun , D. Le Mignant , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , S. Maurogordato , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Melchior , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , A. Mora , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , R. C. Nichol , S. -M. Niemi , J. W. Nightingale , 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 , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , J. A. Schewtschenko , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , P. Simon , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , S. Toft , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , A. Zacchei , G. Zamorani , F. M. Zerbi , E. Zucca , V. Allevato , M. Ballardini , M. Bolzonella , E. Bozzo , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , A. Cappi , D. Di Ferdinando , J. A. Escartin Vigo , L. Gabarra , M. Huertas-Company , J. Martín-Fleitas , S. Matthew , N. Mauri , A. A. Nucita , A. Pezzotta , M. Pöntinen , C. Porciani , I. Risso , V. Scottez , M. Sereno , M. Tenti , M. Viel , M. Wiesmann , Y. Akrami , S. Anselmi , M. Archidiacono , F. Atrio-Barandela , C. Benoist , K. Benson , P. Bergamini , D. Bertacca , M. Bethermin , A. Blanchard , L. Blot , S. Borgani , M. L. Brown , S. Bruton , A. Calabro , F. Caro , C. S. Carvalho , T. Castro , F. Cogato , A. R. Cooray , O. Cucciati , S. Davini , F. De Paolis , G. Desprez , A. Díaz-Sánchez , J. J. Diaz , S. Di Domizio , J. M. Diego , P. -A. Duc , A. Enia , Y. Fang , A. G. Ferrari , P. G. Ferreira , A. Finoguenov , A. Fontana , A. Franco , K. Ganga , J. García-Bellido , T. Gasparetto , V. Gautard , E. Gaztanaga , F. Giacomini , F. Gianotti , G. Gozaliasl , C. M. Gutierrez , A. Hall , W. G. Hartley , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , H. Hildebrandt , J. Hjorth , J. J. E. Kajava , Y. Kang , V. Kansal , D. Karagiannis , K. Kiiveri , C. C. Kirkpatrick , J. Le Graet , L. Legrand , M. Lembo , F. Lepori , G. Leroy , G. F. Lesci , J. Lesgourgues , T. I. Liaudat , A. Loureiro , J. Macias-Perez , G. Maggio , M. Magliocchetti , E. A. Magnier , F. Mannucci , R. Maoli , C. J. A. P. Martins , L. Maurin , M. Miluzio , P. Monaco , A. Montoro , C. Moretti , G. Morgante , K. Naidoo , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Nesseris , F. Passalacqua , K. Paterson , L. Patrizii , A. Pisani , D. Potter , S. Quai , M. Radovich , S. Sacquegna , M. Sahlén , D. B. Sanders , E. Sarpa , A. Schneider , D. Sciotti , E. Sellentin , L. C. Smith , K. Tanidis , G. Testera , R. Teyssier , S. Tosi , A. Troja , M. Tucci , C. Valieri , A. Venhola , D. Vergani , G. Vernardos , G. Verza , P. Vielzeuf , N. A. Walton , D. Scott

Weak Lensing (WL) surveys are reaching unprecedented depths, enabling the investigation of very small angular scales. At these scales, nonlinear gravitational effects lead to higher-order correlations making the matter distribution highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-01 Divij Sharma , Biwei Dai , Uros Seljak

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

Searches and analyses of strong gravitational lenses are challenging due to the rarity and image complexity of these astronomical objects. Next-generation surveys (both ground- and space-based) will provide more opportunities to derive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-18 Clecio Bom , Jason Poh , Brian Nord , Manuel Blanco-Valentin , Luciana Dias

When a gravitational wave encounters a massive object along the line of sight, repeated copies of the original signal may be produced due to gravitational lensing. In this paper, we develop a series of new machine-learning based statistical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Giulia Campailla , Marco Raveri , Wayne Hu , Jose María Ezquiaga

We demonstrate the potential of Deep Learning methods for measurements of cosmological parameters from density fields, focusing on the extraction of non-Gaussian information. We consider weak lensing mass maps as our dataset. We aim for our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Jorit Schmelzle , Aurelien Lucchi , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Raphael Sgier , Alexandre Réfrégier , Thomas Hofmann

We discuss strong gravitational lensing by multiple objects along any line of sight. The probability for strong gravitational lensing by more than one lens is small, but a number of strong lens systems in which more than one separate lens…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ole Moeller , A. W. Blain

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archives constitute a rich dataset of high resolution images to mine for strong gravitational lenses. While many HST programs specifically target strong lenses, they can also be present by coincidence in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-23 Emily O. Garvin , Sandor Kruk , Claude Cornen , Rachana Bhatawdekar , Raoul Cañameras , Bruno Merín

Galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing is not only a valuable probe of the dark matter distribution of massive galaxies, but can also provide valuable cosmological constraints, either by studying the population of strong lenses or by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Francois Lanusse , Quanbin Ma , Nan Li , Thomas E. Collett , Chun-Liang Li , Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Rachel Mandelbaum , Barnabas Poczos

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

We present a systematic search for wide-separation (Einstein radius >1.5"), galaxy-scale strong lenses in the 30 000 sq.deg of the Pan-STARRS 3pi survey on the Northern sky. With long time delays of a few days to weeks, such systems are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-08 R. Canameras , S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , S. Taubenberger , T. Meinhardt , L. Leal-Taixe , C. Lemon , K. Rojas , E. Savary

Large-scale imaging surveys have grown about 1000 times faster than the number of astronomers in the last 3 decades. Using Artificial Intelligence instead of astronomer's brains for interpretative tasks allows astronomers to keep up with…

Gravitationally lensed supernovae (SNe) are extremely rare and fade quickly; as a result, they are challenging to detect. To identify lensed SNe in large imaging datasets, current surveys primarily rely on the {\it magnification} effect of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-24 Fawad Kirmani , Arjun Karki , Steve Rodney , Kyle Lackey , Varsha P. Kulkarni , John R. Rose , Justin Pierel

We report on the first results of an imaging survey to detect strong gravitational lensing targeting the richest clusters selected from the photometric data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with follow-up deep imaging observations…

Strong gravitational lensing can be used as a tool for constraining the substructure in the mass distribution of galaxies. In this study we investigate the power spectrum of dark matter perturbations in a population of 23 Hubble Space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-08 Joshua Fagin , Georgios Vernardos , Grigorios Tsagkatakis , Yannis Pantazis , Anowar J. Shajib , Matthew O'Dowd

We have conducted a search for strong gravitational lensing systems in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 9. This is the third paper in a series. These surveys together cover $\sim$19,000…

Upcoming large astronomical surveys are expected to capture an unprecedented number of strong gravitational lensing systems. Deep learning is emerging as a promising practical tool for the detection and quantification of these galaxy-scale…

With the upcoming large-scale surveys like LSST, we expect to find approximately $10^5$ strong gravitational lenses among data of many orders of magnitude larger. In this scenario, the usage of non-automated techniques is too time-consuming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-20 Hareesh Thuruthipilly , Margherita Grespan , Adam Zadrożny