Publications associées à Objectif de longue focale

Searching for Strong Gravitational Lenses

Frédéric Courbin, Cameron Alexander Campbell Lemon

Strong gravitational lenses provide unique laboratories for cosmological and astrophysical investigations, but they must first be discovered - a task that can be met with significant contamination by other astrophysical objects and asterisms. Here we revie ...

Springer2024

The impact of human expert visual inspection on the discovery of strong gravitational lenses

Frédéric Courbin, Benjamin Yvan Alexandre Clement, Eric Gérard Guy Paic, Hung-Hsu Chan, Martin Raoul Robert Millon, Karina Alexandra Rojas Olate, Rémy Elie Joseph, Elodie Marie Charlène Savary, Yue Pan

We investigate the ability of human 'expert' classifiers to identify strong gravitational lens candidates in Dark Energy Survey like imaging. We recruited a total of 55 people that completed more than 25 per cent of the project. During the classification t ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

Media Coverage of 3D Visual Tools Used in Urban Participatory Planning

Jens Ingensand, Thibaud Nicolas Chassin

The opportunities provided by adopting digitally-generated visual tools in urban participatory planning are compelling. These visual tools can promote interactions between authorities and citizens and among citizens. However, the urban participatory practi ...

IGI GLOBAL2023

Gravitationally lensed quasars in Gaia - IV. 150 new lenses, quasar pairs, and projected quasars

Frédéric Courbin, Aymeric Alexandre Galan, Cameron Alexander Campbell Lemon, Adriano Agnello

We report the spectroscopic follow-up of 175 lensed quasar candidates selected using Gaia Data Release 2 observations following Paper III of this series. Systems include 86 confirmed lensed quasars and a further 17 likely lensed quasars based on imaging an ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

The autoregressive neural network architecture of the Boltzmann distribution of pairwise interacting spins systems

Indaco Biazzo

Autoregressive Neural Networks (ARNNs) have shown exceptional results in generation tasks across image, language, and scientific domains. Despite their success, ARNN architectures often operate as black boxes without a clear connection to underlying physic ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Using wavelets to capture deviations from smoothness in galaxy-scale strong lenses

Frédéric Courbin, Aymeric Alexandre Galan, Georgios Vernardos, Austin Chandler Peel

Modeling the mass distribution of galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses is a task of increasing difficulty. The high-resolution and depth of imaging data now available render simple analytical forms ineffective at capturing lens structures spanning a la ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2022

TOCOSMO VIII. A key test of systematics in the hierarchical method of time-delay cosmography

Frédéric Courbin

The largest source of systematic errors in the time-delay cosmography method likely arises from the lens model mass distribution, where an inaccurate choice of model could in principle bias the value of H-0. A Bayesian hierarchical framework has been propo ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2022

High-Resolution Multi-Spectral Imaging With Diffractive Lenses and Learned Reconstruction

Oguzhan Fatih Kar, Can Deniz Bezek

Spectral imaging is a fundamental diagnostic technique with widespread application. Conventional spectral imaging approaches have intrinsic limitations on spatial and spectral resolutions due to the physical components they rely on. To overcome these physi ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Single-shot observation of breathers from noise-induced modulation instability using heterodyne temporal imaging

Alexey Tikan

We report phase and amplitude measurements of large coherent structures originating from the noise-induced modulation instability in optical fibers. By using a specifically designed time-lens system (SEAHORSE) in which aberrations are compensated, the comp ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2021

Phase resolved characterization of nanoscale features in optical microstructures

Michail Symeonidis

In this study, we apply interferometric microscopy to study the phase, alongside the intensity, of the light field transmitted through a wide variety of samples. Additionally, we conduct those interferometric measurements at different wavelengths within th ...

EPFL2019