samwgamgee/lenstronomy-tutorials

Extension modules to the lenstronomy software package

lenstronomy tutorial notebooks

In this repository you can find a variety of notebooks with tutorials on how to use lenstronomy as well as more advanced and specific example use cases.

If you are new to gravitational lensing, check also out the mini lecture series giving an introduction to gravitational lensing with interactive Jupyter notebooks in the cloud.

Index

Getting started

• Starting guide (google colab)
• Units, coordinate system and parameter definitions (google colab)
• Handling FITS files and extracting needed information from the data (google colab)

Lens modeling

• Modeling a simple Einstein ring (google colab)
• Modeling a doubly imaged quasar (google colab)
• Modeling a quadruply imaged quasar (google colab)
• Modeling multiple bands simultaneously (google colab)
• Source reconstruction with shapelets (google colab)
• Modeling of catalogue data (google colab)
• Cosmic shear with Einstein ring simulations (google colab)

Line-of-sight effects

• Line-of-sight effects tutorial (google colab)

Numerics

• Solving lens equation (google colab)
• Lenstronomy numerics (google colab)

Simulations

• Simulation API (google colab)
• Skypy meets Lenstronomy (google colab)

Galaxy light fitting

• Fitting galaxy light profile (like Galfit) (google colab)
• Quasar-host galaxy decomposition (google colab)

Dark matter substructure

• Substructure challenge - a simple example (google colab)
• Substructure challenge - Mock production notebook (google colab)

Time-delay cosmography

• Time delay-cosmography simulations (google colab)
• Time delay-cosmography with uncertain PSF (google colab)
• Sampling of catalogue data with external information (google colab)
• Cosmology sampling of cosmographic posteriors (google colab)
• Cosmographic uncertainty estimation and forecasting (google colab)

Requirements

The notebooks require lenstronomy release version 1.10.4. Instructions for installing lenstronomy and its dependencies can be found in the Installation section of the lenstronomy documentation.

If you are using the GitHub branch of lenstronomy, you may be a bit ahead of the notebooks.

Need help or provide feedback?

Get in touch with the lenstronomy developers ([email protected]) if you encounter problems.

Attribution

A first set of notebooks were written by Simon Birrer sibirrer as the lenstronomy_extensions package. Please follow the lenstronomy citation guidelines in using these notebooks.