5 papers
SLSim: a strong lensing population simulation package
Narayan Khadka, Simon Birrer, Henry Best +45
Gravitational lensing offers unique insights into cosmology by bending light around massive objects. Strong gravitational lensing, in particular, produces magnified and often multi…
The Dark Energy Bedrock All-Sky Supernova Program: Motivation, Design, Implementation, and Preliminary Data Release
Nora F. Sherman, Maria Acevedo, Dillon Brout +20
Precise measurements of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at low redshifts () serve as one of the most viable keys to unlocking our understanding of cosmic expansion, isotropy, and gr…
Analyzing Line-of-sight selection biases in galaxy-scale strong lensing with external convergence and shear
Xianzhe TZ Tang, Simon Birrer, Anowar J. Shajib +3
The upcoming Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will dramatically increase the number of strong gravitational lensing systems, requiring precise modeling…
The Roman View of Strong Gravitational Lenses
Bryce Wedig, Tansu Daylan, Simon Birrer +13
Galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses can constrain dark matter models and the Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmological paradigm at sub-galactic scales. Currently, there is a deart…
Uniting the Observed Dynamical Dark Energy Preference with the Discrepancies in and Across Cosmological Probes
Xianzhe TZ Tang, Dillon Brout, Tanvi Karwal +3
Recent results from Type Ia Supernovae (SNe), baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) indicate 1) potentially discrepant measurements of the m…