EasyCritics I: Efficient detection of strongly-lensing galaxy groups and clusters in wide-field surveys

Abstract

We present EasyCritics, an algorithm to detect strongly-lensing groups and clusters in wide-field surveys without relying on a direct recognition of arcs. EasyCritics assumes that light traces mass in order to predict the most likely locations of critical curves from the observed fluxes of luminous red early-type galaxies in the line of sight. The positions, redshifts and fluxes of these galaxies constrain the idealized gravitational lensing potential as a function of source redshift up to five free parameters, which are calibrated on few known lenses. From the lensing potential, EasyCritics derives the critical curves for a given, representative source redshift. The code is highly parallelized, uses fast Fourier methods and, optionally, GPU acceleration in order to process large datasets efficiently. The search of a $1{\mathrm{deg}}^2$ field of view requires less than 1 minute on a modern quad-core CPU, when using a pixel resolution of $0.25^{\prime \prime }/\mathrm{px}$. In this first part of a paper series on EasyCritics, we describe the main underlying concepts and present a first demonstration on data from the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope Lensing Survey. We show that EasyCritics is able to identify known group- and cluster-scale lenses, including a cluster with two giant arc candidates that were previously missed by automated arc detectors.

arXiv comment18 pages, 12 figures, submitted to MNRAS, added minor revisions

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