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most citedThe Strong Gravitational Lens Finding Challenge

154 citations · 437 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM2026

Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA II

Anna Bonaldi, Tyler L. Bourke, Philippa Hartley +45

Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA II (AASKAII), written by our science community, outlines the transformative scientific advances that will be enabled by the SKA telescopes. In t…

astro-ph.IM2026

Source Finding and Characterisation for SKAO Science

Sabyasachi Pal, Souvik Manik, M Carmen Toribio +8

The advancements in highly sensitive and powerful radio telescopes, including the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) and its precursors, MeerKAT, ASKAP, MWA, and HERA, will…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

SKA-Low simulations for a cosmic dawn/epoch of reionisation deep field

Anna Bonaldi, Philippa Hartley, Simon Purser +7

We present a realistic simulation of an SKA-Low cosmic dawn/epoch of reionisation (CD/EoR) observation, which can be used to further the development of foreground-mitigation approa…

astro-ph.GA2024

Radio imaging of gravitationally lensed radio-quiet quasars

Neal Jackson, Shruti Badole, Thomas Dugdale +4

We present 6-GHz Very Large Array radio images of 70 gravitational lens systems at 300-mas resolution, in which the source is an optically-selected quasar, and nearly all of which…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 16 cited

The Tiered Radio Extragalactic Continuum (T-RECS) simulation II: HI emission and continuum-HI cross-correlation

Anna Bonaldi, Philippa Hartley, Tommaso Ronconi +2

In this paper we extend the Tiered Radio Extragalactic Continuum Simulation (T-RECS) to include HI emission. The HI T-RECS model is based on the most recent HI mass function estima…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

Mildly Relativistic Motion in the Radio Quiet Quasar PG 1351+640

Ailing Wang, Tao An, Shaoguang Guo +8

Measuring the proper motion of the emission component in radio-quiet quasars (RQQs) could help to distinguish between the origins of the radio emission and to understand whether th…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 22 cited

SKA Science Data Challenge 2: analysis and results

P. Hartley, A. Bonaldi, R. Braun +105

The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will explore the radio sky to new depths in order to conduct transformational science. SKAO data products made available to astronomer…

astro-ph.GA2021

Using strong lensing to understand the microJy radio emission in two radio quiet quasars at redshift 1.7

P. Hartley, N. Jackson, S. Badole +3

The radio quasar luminosity function exhibits an upturn around W Hz that is well-modelled by a star-forming host galaxy population. This distribution…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 12 cited

PS J1721+8842: A gravitationally lensed dual AGN system at redshift 2.37 with two radio components

C. S. Mangat, J. P. McKean, R. Brilenkov +4

Dual-Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are a natural consequence of the hierarchical structure formation scenario, and can provide an important test of various models for black hole gro…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 5 cited

High-resolution imaging with the International LOFAR Telescope: Observations of the gravitational lenses MG 0751+2716 and CLASS B1600+434

Shruti Badole, Deepika Venkattu, Neal Jackson +7

We present Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) telescope observations of the radio-loud gravitational lens systems MG 0751+2716 and CLASS B1600+434. These observations produce images at 30…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 16 cited

Gravitational lensing in LoTSS DR2 -- Extremely faint 144-MHz radio emission from two highly magnified quasars

J. P. McKean, R. Luichies, A. Drabent +8

We report extremely faint 144 MHz radio emission from two gravitationally lensed quasars, SDSS J1004+4112 (z = 1.730) and SDSS J2222+2745 (z = 2.803), using the LOFAR Two Metre Sky…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 53 cited

Square Kilometre Array Science Data Challenge 1: analysis and results

A. Bonaldi, T. An, M. Bruggen +42

As the largest radio telescope in the world, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will lead the next generation of radio astronomy. The feats of engineering required to construct the t…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 20 cited

VLA and ALMA observations of the lensed radio-quiet quasar SDSS J0924+0219: a molecular structure in a 3 microJy radio source

S. Badole, N. Jackson, P. Hartley +3

We present Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) observations of SDSS J0924+0219, a z = 1.524 radio-quiet lensed quasar with an intrinsic…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 41 cited

Strong lensing reveals jets in a sub-microJy radio quiet quasar

P. Hartley, N. Jackson, D. Sluse +2

We present e-MERLIN and EVN observations which reveal unambiguous jet activity within radio quiet quasar HS~0810+2554. With an intrinsic flux density of 880~nJy, this is the fainte…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 154 cited

The Strong Gravitational Lens Finding Challenge

R. Benton Metcalf, M. Meneghetti, Camille Avestruz +33

Large scale imaging surveys will increase the number of galaxy-scale strong lensing candidates by maybe three orders of magnitudes beyond the number known today. Finding these rare…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 38 cited

Support Vector Machine classification of strong gravitational lenses

P. Hartley, R. Flamary, N. Jackson +2

The imminent advent of very large-scale optical sky surveys, such as Euclid and LSST, makes it important to find efficient ways of discovering rare objects such as strong gravitati…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 48 cited

A PCA-based automated finder for galaxy-scale strong lenses

R. Joseph, F. Courbin, R. B. Metcalf +11

We present an algorithm using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to subtract galaxies from imaging data, and also two algorithms to find strong, galaxy-scale gravitational lenses i…