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We consider a machine learning algorithm to detect and identify strong gravitational lenses on sky images. First, we simulate different artificial but very close to reality images of galaxies, stars and strong lenses, using six different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-06 H. G. Khachatryan

In this paper, we assemble a well-defined sample of early-type gravitational lenses extracted from a large collection of 158 systems, and use the redshift distribution of galactic-scale lenses to test the standard cosmological model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Yu-Bo Ma , Shuo Cao , Jia Zhang , Shuaibo Geng , Yuting Liu , Tonghua Liu , Yu Pan

Strongly gravitational lensing systems (SGL) encodes cosmology information in source/lens distance ratios $\mathcal{D}_{\rm obs}=\mathcal{D}_{\rm ls}/\mathcal{D}_{\rm s}$, which can be used to precisely constrain cosmological parameters. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-05 Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Jia Zhang , Shuaibo Geng , Yuting Liu , Xuan Ji , Zong-Hong Zhu

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 introduce a new adaptive and fully Bayesian grid-based method to model strong gravitational lenses with extended images. The primary goal of this method is to quantify the level of luminous and dark-mass substructure in massive galaxies,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Vegetti , L. V. E. Koopmans

Dark matter cannot be observed directly, but its weak gravitational lensing slightly distorts the apparent shapes of background galaxies, making weak lensing one of the most promising probes of cosmology. Several observational studies have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-18 Dezső Ribli , Bálint Ármin Pataki , István Csabai

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 this work, we present our classification algorithm to identify strong gravitational lenses from wide-area surveys using machine learning convolutional neural network; LensExtractor. We train and test the algorithm using a wide variety of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Milad Pourrahmani , Hooshang Nayyeri , Asantha Cooray

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for investigating dark matter and dark energy properties. With the advent of large-scale sky surveys, we can discover strong lensing systems on an unprecedented scale, which requires efficient…

Artificial neural networks are finding increasing use in astronomy, but understanding the limitations of these models can be difficult. We utilize a statistical method, a sensitivity probe, designed to complement established methods for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-07 C. Jacobs , K. Glazebrook , A. K. Qin , T. Collett

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

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

We report the application of implicit likelihood inference to the prediction of the macro-parameters of strong lensing systems with neural networks. This allows us to perform deep learning analysis of lensing systems within a well-defined…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Ronan Legin , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Benjamin Wandelt

We investigate how observations of strong lensing can be used to infer cosmological parameters, in particular the equation of state of dark energy. We focus on the growth of the critical lines of lensing clusters with the source redshift as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-03 Britta Zieser , Matthias Bartelmann

Galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses are valuable objects for a variety of astrophysical and cosmological applications. Strong lensing galaxies are rare, so efficient search methods, such as convolutional neural networks, are often used…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-17 Yuichiro Ishida , Kenneth C. Wong , Anton T. Jaelani , Anupreeta More

We use the distance sum rule (DSR) method to constrain the spatial curvature of the Universe with a large sample of 161 strong gravitational lensing (SGL) systems, whose distances are calibrated from the Pantheon compilation of type Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-21 Liang Liu , Li-Juan Hu , Li Tang , Ying Wu

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

Strong gravitational lensing gives access to the total mass distribution of galaxies. It can unveil a great deal of information about the lenses dark matter content when combined with the study of the lenses light profile. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-02 Judith Biernaux , Pierre Magain , Clementine Hauret

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

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