3 papers
astro-ph.CO2026
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…
astro-ph.IM2026
JAXtronomy: A JAX port of lenstronomy
Alan Huang, Simon Birrer, Daniel Gilman +4
Gravitational lensing is a phenomenon where light bends around massive objects, resulting in distorted images seen by an observer. Studying gravitationally lensed systems provides…
astro-ph.CO2025
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…