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Extreme Stellar Death and Galaxy Feedback at z = 2: A Rest-frame Ultraviolet Characterization of the Strongly Lensed Superluminous Supernova 2025wny
Willem B. Hoogendam, David O. Jones, Christopher J. Storfer +26
We present photometric and spectroscopic follow-up observations of the strongly-lensed H-poor superluminous supernova (SLSN) 2025wny at . We use integral-field Keck-II/…
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…
Supernova 2025wny: High-angular resolution Keck/NIRC2 observations and preliminary lens modeling
Christopher J. Storfer, Kenneth C. Wong, Ana Acebron +10
Multiply imaged, gravitationally lensed supernovae are rare but powerful tools for providing independent measurements on cosmological parameters. Supernova (SN) 2025wny ("SN Winny"…
SN 2025adpq: A Type Ia supernova in a collisional ring formed during a major galaxy merger
Brendan O'Connor, Xander J. Hall, Tomas Cabrera +16
Galaxy mergers can both trigger star formation and rearrange where stars live, producing long-lived tidal structures and collisionally driven density waves (known as collisional ri…
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…
A Novel Lensed Point Source Modeling Pipeline using GIGA-Lens with Application to SN Zwicky and SN iPTF16geu
Saul Baltasar, Nicolas Ratier-Werbin, Xiaosheng Huang +5
We introduce a novel modeling pipeline for strongly lensed point sources, using the GIGA-Lens framework, running on four A100 GPUs via the JAX platform. Using simulations, we demon…
The Carousel Lens I: A Spectroscopic Survey of the Carousel Lens Field
Jackson H. O'Donnell, Demetrius Y. Williams, Tesla E. Jeltema +18
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/…
DESI Strong Lens Foundry V: A Sample of HST-Observed Strong Lenses Modeled with GIGA-Lens
Xiaosheng Huang, David Alvarez-Garcia, Monica Ubeda +13
We present six galaxy-scale strong lenses with HST imaging modeled using GIGA-Lens. This is Paper V of the DESI Strong Lens Foundry series. These systems were discovered in the DES…
The DESI Single Fiber Lens Search. I. Four Thousand Spectroscopically Selected Galaxy-Galaxy Gravitational Lens Candidates
Juliana S. M. Karp, David J. Schlegel, Xiaosheng Huang +47
We present 4,110 strong gravitational lens candidates, 3,887 of which are new discoveries, selected from a sample of 5,837,154 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) observed with the Dark E…
HOLISMOKES XIX: SN 2025wny at , the first strongly lensed superluminous supernova
Stefan Taubenberger, Ana Acebron, Raoul Cañameras +45
We present imaging and spectroscopic observations of supernova SN 2025wny, associated with the lens candidate PS1 J0716+3821. Photometric monitoring from the Lulin and Maidanak obs…
DESI Strong Lens Foundry II: DESI Spectroscopy for Strong Lens Candidates
Xiaosheng Huang, Jose Carlos Inchausti, Christopher J. Storfer +59
We present the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Strong Lensing Secondary Target Program. This is a spectroscopic follow-up program for strong gravitational lens candidat…
A New Way to Discover Strong Gravitational Lenses: Pair-wise Spectroscopic Search from DESI DR1
Yuan-Ming Hsu, Xiaosheng Huang, Christopher J. Storfer +47
We present a new method to search for strong gravitational lensing systems by pairing spectra that are close together on the sky in a spectroscopic survey. We visually inspect 26,6…
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 (…
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…
Confirming lensed-quasar candidates with DESI and P200 spectroscopy I. 14 lensed quasars and 8 lensed galaxies
Zizhao He, Qihang Chen, Xiaosheng Huang +3
Lensed quasars are powerful probes of cosmology, the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, and the distribution of dark matter. We cross-match 1,724 pre…
Strong Lens Discoveries in DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR10 with Two Deep Learning Architectures
Jose Carlos Inchausti, Christopher J. Storfer, Xiaosheng Huang +11
We have conducted a search for strong gravitational lensing systems in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 10 (DR10). This paper is…
ML-Driven Strong Lens Discoveries: Down to and
Ethan Silver, R. Wang, Xiaosheng Huang +3
We present results on extending the strong lens discovery space down to much smaller Einstein radii () and much lower halo mass (…
Gravitational Lenses in UNIONS and Euclid (GLUE) I: A Search for Strong Gravitational Lenses in UNIONS with Subaru, CFHT, and Pan-STARRS Data
Christopher J. Storfer, Eugene A. Magnier, Xiaosheng Huang +11
We present the results of our pipeline for discovering strong gravitational lenses in the ongoing Ultraviolet Near-Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS). We successfully train…
UNIONS: The Ultraviolet Near-Infrared Optical Northern Survey
Stephen Gwyn, Alan W. McConnachie, Jean-Charles Cuillandre +86
The Ultraviolet Near-Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS) is a "collaboration of collaborations" that is using the Canada-France-Hawai'i Telescope, the Pan-STARRS telescopes,…
DESI Strong Lens Foundry I: HST Observations and Modeling with GIGA-Lens
X. Huang, S. Baltasar, N. Ratier-Werbin +56
We present the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Strong Lens Foundry. We discovered new strong gravitational lens candidates in the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey…
The Carousel Lens: A Well-Modeled Strong Lens with Multiple Lensed Sources
William Sheu, Aleksandar Cikota, Xiaosheng Huang +12
Over the past few years alone, the lensing community has discovered thousands of strong lens candidates, and spectroscopically confirmed hundreds of them. In this time of abundance…
A Targeted Search for Variable Gravitationally Lensed Quasars
William Sheu, Xiaosheng Huang, Aleksandar Cikota +4
We present a pipeline to identify photometric variability within strong gravitationally lensing candidates, in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. In our first paper (Sheu et al. 2023…
Lensed Type Ia Supernova "Encore" at z=2: The First Instance of Two Multiply-Imaged Supernovae in the Same Host Galaxy
J. D. R. Pierel, A. B. Newman, S. Dhawan +60
A bright (=24 mag), supernova (SN) candidate was discovered in JWST/NIRCam imaging acquired on 2023 November 17. The SN is quintuply-imaged as a result o…
DESI-253.2534+26.8843: A New Einstein Cross Spectroscopically Confirmed with VLT/MUSE and Modeled with GIGA-Lens
Aleksandar Cikota, Ivonne Toro Bertolla, Xiaosheng Huang +10
Gravitational lensing provides unique insights into astrophysics and cosmology, including the determination of galaxy mass profiles and constraining cosmological parameters. We pre…