Multi-band Reconstruction of Sixteen Gravitational Lens Systems using PISCO data
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| author | Qu, Huimin Ballard, Daniel J. Lewis, Geraint F. Glazebrook, Karl Stark, Antony Sweet, Sarah M. Jacobs, Colin Tran, Kim-Vy Stalder, Brian Barone, Tania M. Jones, Tucker C., Keerthi Vasan G. Collett, Thomas E. Kacprzak, Glenn G. Bayer, Dorota |
| author_facet | Qu, Huimin Ballard, Daniel J. Lewis, Geraint F. Glazebrook, Karl Stark, Antony Sweet, Sarah M. Jacobs, Colin Tran, Kim-Vy Stalder, Brian Barone, Tania M. Jones, Tucker C., Keerthi Vasan G. Collett, Thomas E. Kacprzak, Glenn G. Bayer, Dorota |
| contents | Next-generation surveys such as the Euclid survey, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), and the China Space Station Telescope (CSST) survey are expected to discover ~10^5 galaxy-galaxy scale strong gravitational lenses. This motivates the development of scalable and robust lens modeling approaches that can efficiently and reliably learn from wide-field survey datasets before high-resolution follow-up. We design a scalable, Bayesian, Lenstronomy-based pipeline and apply it to a sample of sixteen lens candidates observed with the Parallel Imager for Southern Cosmology Observations (PISCO) on the Magellan telescope. PISCO provides four-band imaging (z, i, r, g) with colours, depth and seeing conditions comparable to LSST. To fully exploit the constraining power of this dataset, our pipeline performs simultaneous multi-band modeling, using a common mass profile across all four bands while allowing independent light profiles in each. This approach leverages color information to provide joint constraints on the lens mass and yields reduced uncertainties compared to single-band analyses. Fifteen out of sixteen PISCO lens candidates are successfully recovered with interpretable lensing configurations, including DESJ0533-2536, the first reported hyperbolic-umbilic galaxy-galaxy scale strong lensing candidate. We further assess how much model complexity can be reliably constrained given the resolution and seeing of PISCO-like data. Overall, our results demonstrate that scalable, multi-band lens modeling of ground-based data can extract meaningful constraints on mass and source morphology, providing a practical pathway to maximize the scientific return from large samples in upcoming surveys. |
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| spellingShingle | Multi-band Reconstruction of Sixteen Gravitational Lens Systems using PISCO data Qu, Huimin Ballard, Daniel J. Lewis, Geraint F. Glazebrook, Karl Stark, Antony Sweet, Sarah M. Jacobs, Colin Tran, Kim-Vy Stalder, Brian Barone, Tania M. Jones, Tucker C., Keerthi Vasan G. Collett, Thomas E. Kacprzak, Glenn G. Bayer, Dorota Astrophysics of Galaxies Next-generation surveys such as the Euclid survey, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), and the China Space Station Telescope (CSST) survey are expected to discover ~10^5 galaxy-galaxy scale strong gravitational lenses. This motivates the development of scalable and robust lens modeling approaches that can efficiently and reliably learn from wide-field survey datasets before high-resolution follow-up. We design a scalable, Bayesian, Lenstronomy-based pipeline and apply it to a sample of sixteen lens candidates observed with the Parallel Imager for Southern Cosmology Observations (PISCO) on the Magellan telescope. PISCO provides four-band imaging (z, i, r, g) with colours, depth and seeing conditions comparable to LSST. To fully exploit the constraining power of this dataset, our pipeline performs simultaneous multi-band modeling, using a common mass profile across all four bands while allowing independent light profiles in each. This approach leverages color information to provide joint constraints on the lens mass and yields reduced uncertainties compared to single-band analyses. Fifteen out of sixteen PISCO lens candidates are successfully recovered with interpretable lensing configurations, including DESJ0533-2536, the first reported hyperbolic-umbilic galaxy-galaxy scale strong lensing candidate. We further assess how much model complexity can be reliably constrained given the resolution and seeing of PISCO-like data. Overall, our results demonstrate that scalable, multi-band lens modeling of ground-based data can extract meaningful constraints on mass and source morphology, providing a practical pathway to maximize the scientific return from large samples in upcoming surveys. |
| title | Multi-band Reconstruction of Sixteen Gravitational Lens Systems using PISCO data |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15585 |