The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy–an overview

Dark Energy Survey Collaboration:… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
This overview paper describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark
Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the …

Strong gravitational lensing of explosive transients

M Oguri - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent rapid progress in time domain surveys makes it possible to detect various types of
explosive transients in the Universe in large numbers, some of which will be gravitationally …

The population of galaxy–galaxy strong lenses in forthcoming optical imaging surveys

TE Collett - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

The next generation Virgo cluster survey (NGVS). I. Introduction to the survey

L Ferrarese, P Cote, JC Cuillandre… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY (NGVS). I. INTRODUCTION TO THE
SURVEY - IOPscience Skip to content IOP Science home Accessibility Help Search Journals …

Cmu deeplens: deep learning for automatic image-based galaxy–galaxy strong lens finding

F Lanusse, Q Ma, N Li, TE Collett, CL Li… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing can not only provide a valuable probe of the dark
matter distribution of massive galaxies, but also provide valuable cosmological constraints …

The first and second data releases of the Kilo-Degree Survey

JTA de Jong, GAV Kleijn, DR Boxhoorn… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
Context. The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) is an optical wide-field imaging survey carried out
with the VLT Survey Telescope and the OmegaCAM camera. KiDS will image 1500 square …

An extended Catalog of galaxy–galaxy strong gravitational lenses discovered in DES using convolutional neural networks

C Jacobs, T Collett, K Glazebrook… - The astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We search Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 imaging for galaxy–galaxy strong
gravitational lenses using convolutional neural networks, extending previous work with new …

Finding strong gravitational lenses in the kilo degree survey with convolutional neural networks

CE Petrillo, C Tortora, S Chatterjee… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The volume of data that will be produced by new-generation surveys requires automatic
classification methods to select and analyse sources. Indeed, this is the case for the search …

Cosmological constraints from a combination of galaxy clustering and lensing–I. Theoretical framework

FC van den Bosch, S More, M Cacciato… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We present a new method that simultaneously solves for cosmology and galaxy bias on non-
linear scales. The method uses the halo model to analytically describe the (non-linear) …

The strong gravitational lens finding challenge

RB Metcalf, M Meneghetti, C Avestruz… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Large-scale imaging surveys will increase the number of galaxy-scale strong lensing
candidates by maybe three orders of magnitudes beyond the number known today. Finding …