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5 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

GIGA-Lens 2.0: Strong-Lens Modeling on Multiple GPU Nodes

Xiaosheng Huang, Linus Upson, Nicolas Ratier-Werbin +12

We present GIGA-Lens 2.0: a major upgrade to the GPU-accelerated Bayesian framework for modeling strong lensing systems that allows it to be run across multiple GPU nodes. We have…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…