Tania Barone (AGEL Deputy Lead) chats about her article on the ongoing effort to spectroscopically confirm a diverse sample of gravitational lenses with high spatial resolution imaging, presenting 139 lenses and high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope images for 167 lenses from three programs, and finding (among others) new measured redshifts for six (five confirmed strong lenses, one probable) galaxy-scale double-source plane lenses, targets which are useful for cosmological analyses. April 4, 2026.
Talk given by Kim-Vy Tran (AGEL Team Lead) at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA on January 28, 2026
External Resources
Short explanation video (STScI)
Gravitational lensing simulator
Stone et al., (2024). Caustics: A Python Package for Accelerated Strong Gravitational Lensing Simulations. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(103), 7081, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07081