Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1)
Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 711, pp. A31
Abstract
The Euclid mission aims to survey around 14 000 deg 2 of extragalactic sky, providing around 10 5 gravitational lens images. Modelling of gravitational lenses is fundamental to estimate the total mass of the lens galaxy, along with its dark matter content. Traditional modelling of gravitational lenses is computationally intensive and requires manual input. In this paper, we use a Bayesian neural network, LEns MOdelling with Neural networks (LEMON), to model Euclid gravitational lenses with a singular isothermal ellipsoid mass profile. Our method estimates key lens mass profile parameters, such as the Einstein radius, while also predicting the light parameters of foreground galaxies and their uncertainties. We validate LEMON’s performance on both mock Euclid datasets, real lenses observed with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that have been degraded to match observations with the same depth of the Euclid Wide Survey, and real Euclid lenses, demonstrating the ability of LEMON to predict parameters of both simulated and real lenses. Results show promising accuracy and reliability in predicting the Einstein radius, mass and light ellipticities, effective radius, Sérsic index, lens magnitude, and unlensed source position for simulated lens galaxies. The application to real data, including the latest Quick Release 1 strong lens candidates, provides encouraging results in the recovery of the parameters for real lenses. We also verified that LEMON has the potential to accelerate traditional modelling methods, by giving to the classical optimiser the LEMON predictions as starting points, resulting in a speed-up of up to 26 times the original time needed to model a sample of gravitational lenses, a result that would be impossible with randomly initialised guesses. Moreover, LEMON can be used to cross-validate results from the traditional modelling methods, and thus has the potential to reduce the failure rate of the Euclid modelling pipeline. This work represents a significant step towards efficient, automated gravitational lens modelling, which is crucial for handling the large data volumes expected from Euclid .
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National Institute for Astrophysics · Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare · Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli · University of Naples Federico II · Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte
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Department of Physics “E. Pancini”, University Federico II
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte
INFN section of Naples
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National Institute for Astrophysics · Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte
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INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte
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Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio · National Institute for Astrophysics · University of Bologna
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Augusto Righi” – Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
INAF-Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna
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School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University
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Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio · National Institute for Astrophysics · Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna
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Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio · National Institute for Astrophysics · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives · CEA Paris-Saclay - Etablissement de Saclay · CEA Paris-Saclay · Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers · University of Bologna · CEA Cadarache
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CEA Saclay, DFR/IRFU, Service d’Astrophysique
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna
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CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (Centre de Saclay Centre de Grenoble Centre de Cadarache etc - France)
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris · Sorbonne Université · Aix-Marseille Université · Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille
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Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CNES, LAM
Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, UMR 7095, CNRS, and Sorbonne Université
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School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University
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Institude for Astrophysics, School of Physics, Zhengzhou University
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National Institute for Astrophysics · Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare · Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli · University of Naples Federico II · Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte
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Department of Physics “E. Pancini”, University Federico II
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte
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National Institute for Astrophysics · Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare · Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli · University of Naples Federico II · Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte
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Dipartimento di Fisica “E. Pancini”, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
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INFN section of Naples
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Institut de Ciències del Cosmos · Universitat de Barcelona · Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
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Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)
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University of Manchester · University of Toronto
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David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Aix-Marseille Université · Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille
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University of British Columbia
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Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio · National Institute for Astrophysics · University of Bologna
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Augusto Righi” – Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules · Aix-Marseille Université · Centre de physique des particules de Marseille
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Technical University of Denmark
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Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN)
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