11 papers
XShooter DESI Lens Program: Sample characterization
Eric Jullo, Christophe Boghossian, Luderic Chapel +6
Large imaging surveys in cosmology are detecting orders of magnitude more lens systems than known so far. This unprecedented dataset will lead to robust constraints on cosmology an…
DESI Strong Lens Foundry IV: Spectroscopic Confirmation of DESI Lens Candidates with VLT/MUSE
Emerald Lin, Ivonne Toro Bertolla, Aleksandar Cikota +6
We present integral field spectroscopic observations of 76 strong gravitational lens candidates identified with a residual neural network in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys, obtain…
DESI Strong Lens Foundry III: Keck Spectroscopy for Strong Lenses Discovered Using Residual Neural Networks
Shrihan Agarwal, Xiaosheng Huang, William Sheu +49
We present spectroscopic data of strong lenses and their source galaxies using the Keck Near-Infrared Echellette Spectrometer (NIRES) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (…
The Carousel Lens II: Cosmological Constraints with GIGA-Lens
Felipe Urcelay, Xiaosheng Huang, William Sheu +28
The nature of dark matter and dark energy are among the central questions in cosmology. Strong gravitational lenses with multiple source planes provide a geometric probe of cosmolo…
The Carousel Lens I: A Spectroscopic Survey of the Carousel Lens Field
Jackson H. O'Donnell, Demetrius Y. Williams, Tesla E. Jeltema +19
We present a spectroscopic survey of field galaxies and lensed sources in the vicinity of the strong lensing galaxy cluster known as the Carousel lens at z=0.49. Using both Gemini/…
Optical and near-infrared nebular-phase spectroscopy of SN 2024ggi: constraints on the structure of the inner ejecta, progenitor mass, and dust
Emilio Hueichapán, Régis Cartier, Jose L. Prieto +7
We present optical and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic observations of the nearby Type II supernova SN\,2024ggi from 250 and 581 days after the explosion. Comparing the evolution…