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Observation and Confirmation of Six Strong Lensing Systems in The Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data
B. Nord, E. Buckley-Geer, H. Lin +89
We report the observation and confirmation of the first group- and cluster-scale strong gravitational lensing systems found in Dark Energy Survey (DES) data. Through visual inspect…
Compound lensing: Einstein Zig-Zags and high multiplicity lensed images
Thomas E. Collett, David J. Bacon
Compound strong gravitational lensing is a rare phenomenon, but a handful of such lensed systems are likely to be discovered in forthcoming surveys. In this work, we use a double S…
The population of galaxy-galaxy strong lenses in forthcoming optical imaging surveys
Thomas E Collett
Ongoing and future imaging surveys represent significant improvements in depth, area and seeing compared to current data-sets. These improvements offer the opportunity to discover…
Space Warps: I. Crowd-sourcing the Discovery of Gravitational Lenses
Philip J. Marshall, Aprajita Verma, Anupreeta More +20
We describe Space Warps, a novel gravitational lens discovery service that yields samples of high purity and completeness through crowd-sourced visual inspection. Carefully produce…
Space Warps II. New Gravitational Lens Candidates from the CFHTLS Discovered through Citizen Science
Anupreeta More, Aprajita Verma, Philip J. Marshall +18
We report the discovery of 29 promising (and 59 total) new lens candidates from the CFHT Legacy Survey (CFHTLS) based on about 11 million classifications performed by citizen scien…
Correcting the z~8 Galaxy Luminosity Function for Gravitational Lensing Magnification Bias
Charlotte A. Mason, Tommaso Treu, Kasper B. Schmidt +7
We present a Bayesian framework to account for the magnification bias from both strong and weak gravitational lensing in estimates of high-redshift galaxy luminosity functions. We…