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Lightcone is a cosmological software package which illustrates and animates strong gravitational lensing data in the hopes of helping scientists better understand dark matter data. Strong lensing is a promising research field with the potential to further constrain dark matter subhalos which will in turn help scientists further and more accurately understand the problems with the ΔCDM Model.
I was an undergraduate research assistant under Dr. Birrer at Stony Brook University and was a contributor and assistant developer for Lightcone during my final semester. Lightcone builds off of Dr. Birrer's Lenstronomy Python package and also is able to use features from Sebastian Wagner-Carena's Paltas Python package.
Lightcone:
https://github.com/sibirrer/lightcone
https://lightcone-lenstronomy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/readme.html
Lenstronomy:
https://github.com/lenstronomy/lenstronomy
Paltas:
https://github.com/swagnercarena/paltas
Figure 1: Transition from interpolated image from the animation into expected noised image you would actually see from the CCD camera.
Figure 2: Full animation of lense galaxy with its light rays shooting out toward the main deflector and reaching the observer + Figure 1 added at the end of the animation.
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