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most citedEuclid. I. Overview of the Euclid mission

550 citations · 613 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Reducing False Positives in Strong-Lens Searches with Generalized-Mean Consensus of Machine-Learning Ensembles in the Kilo-Degree Survey

Ziqi Li, Rui Li, Xu Huang +11

Context. In wide-field surveys, the main challenge is not just classifier sensitivity, but the overwhelming number of false positives. Searching for strong lenses among millions to…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

LenNet: Direct Detection and Localization of Strong Gravitational Lenses in Wide-Field Sky Survey Images

Pufan Liu, Hui Li, Ziqi Li +9

Strong gravitational lenses are invaluable tools for addressing fundamental questions in astrophysics, from the nature of dark matter to the expansion of the universe. While curren…

astro-ph.IM2026

Identification of gravitational lenses obscured by foreground light in the KiDS dataset using U-Nets and ResNets

S. Liu, Rui Li, J. Jia +13

*Context.* Many lensing images are often obscured by foreground light from the central galaxies, making them challenging to detect. *Aims.* To address the limitations of previous l…

astro-ph.GA2026

Galaxy-Galaxy Strong Lensing simulation with the GPU acceleration across surveys and multi-bands

Fucheng Zhong, Ruibiao Luo, Nicola R. Napolitano +3

We present a GPU-accelerated, PyTorch tensor-based simulation framework designed to generate high-fidelity galaxy-galaxy strong lensing images. By integrating synthetic Spectral En…

astro-ph.GA2026

CASCO: Cosmological and AStrophysical parameters from Cosmological simulations and Observations IV. Testing warm dark matter cosmologies with galaxy scaling relations: A joint simulation-observation study using DREAMS simulations

M. Silvestrini, C. Tortora, V. Busillo +9

Small-scale discrepancies in the standard Lambda cold dark matter paradigm have motivated the exploration of alternative dark matter (DM) models, such as warm dark matter (WDM). We…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 9 cited

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): The Strong Lensing Discovery Engine A -- System overview and lens catalogue

Euclid Collaboration, M. Walmsley, P. Holloway +372

We present a catalogue of 497 galaxy-galaxy strong lenses in the Euclid Quick Release 1 data (63 deg). In the initial 0.45\% of Euclid's surveys, we double the total number of…

astro-ph.GA2025

Euclid: Finding strong gravitational lenses in the Early Release Observations using convolutional neural networks

B. C. Nagam, J. A. Acevedo Barroso, J. Wilde +192

The Early Release Observations (ERO) from Euclid have detected several new galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses, with the all-sky survey expected to find 170,000 new systems,…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

CASCO: Cosmological and AStrophysical parameters from Cosmological simulations and Observations III. The physics behind the emergence of the golden mass scale

C. Tortora, V. Busillo, N. R. Napolitano +5

We investigate the origin and evolution of the "golden mass" (halo mass , stellar mass ), linked to peak star f…

astro-ph.GA2025

Automation of finding strong gravitational lenses in the Kilo Degree Survey with U-DenseLens (DenseLens + Segmentation)

Bharath Chowdhary Nagam, Léon V E Koopmans, Edwin A Valentijn +7

In the context of upcoming large-scale surveys like Euclid, the necessity for the automation of strong lens detection is essential. While existing machine learning pipelines heavil…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

CASCO: Cosmological and AStrophysical parameters from Cosmological simulations and Observations -- II. Constraining cosmology and astrophysical processes with early- and late-type galaxies

Valerio Busillo, Crescenzo Tortora, Giovanni Covone +3

Physical processes impact galaxy formation and evolution in diverse ways, requiring validation of their implementation in cosmological simulations through comparisons with real dat…

astro-ph.IM2024

Euclid: Searches for strong gravitational lenses using convolutional neural nets in Early Release Observations of the Perseus field

R. Pearce-Casey, B. C. Nagam, J. Wilde +204

The Euclid Wide Survey (EWS) is predicted to find approximately 170 000 galaxy-galaxy strong lenses from its lifetime observation of 14 000 deg^2 of the sky. Detecting this many le…

astro-ph.GA2024

Galaxy-Galaxy Strong Lensing with U-Net (GGSL-UNet). I. Extracting 2-Dimensional Information from Multi-Band Images in Ground and Space Observations

Fucheng Zhong, Ruibiao Luo, Nicola R. Napolitano +6

We present a novel deep learning method to separately extract the two-dimensional flux information of the foreground galaxy (deflector) and background system (source) of Galaxy-Gal…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 20 cited

Euclid: The Early Release Observations Lens Search Experiment

J. A. Acevedo Barroso, C. M. O'Riordan, B. Clément +206

We investigated the ability of the Euclid telescope to detect galaxy-scale gravitational lenses. To do so, we performed a systematic visual inspection of the Eucl…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 550 cited

Euclid. I. Overview of the Euclid mission

Euclid Collaboration, Y. Mellier, Abdurro'uf +1134

The current standard model of cosmology successfully describes a variety of measurements, but the nature of its main ingredients, dark matter and dark energy, remains unknown. Eucl…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 13 cited

AMICO galaxy clusters in KiDS-DR3: Cosmological constraints from angular power spectrum and correlation function

M. Romanello, F. Marulli, L. Moscardini +14

We study the tomographic clustering properties of the photometric cluster catalogue derived from the Third Data Release of the Kilo Degree Survey, focusing on the angular correlati…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

CASCO: Cosmological and AStrophysical parameters from Cosmological simulations and Observations -- I. Constraining physical processes in local star-forming galaxies

Valerio Busillo, Crescenzo Tortora, Nicola R. Napolitano +4

We compare the structural properties and dark matter content of star-forming galaxies taken from the CAMELS cosmological simulations to the observed trends derived from the SPARC s…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 4 cited

AMICO galaxy clusters in KiDS-DR3: constraints on CDM from extreme value statistics

Valerio Busillo, Giovanni Covone, Mauro Sereno +11

We constrain the CDM cosmological parameter by applying the extreme value statistics for galaxy cluster mass on the AMICO KiDS-DR3 catalog. We sample the posterior distr…