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COOL-LAMPS. VII. Quantifying Strong-lens Scaling Relations with 177 Cluster-scale Gravitational Lenses in DECaLS
We compute parametric measurements of the Einstein-radius-enclosed total mass
for 177 cluster-scale strong gravitational lenses identified by the ChicagO
Optically-selected Lenses Located At the Margins of Public Surveys (COOL-LAMPS)
collaboration with lens redshifts ranging from using only two measured parameters in each lensing system: the Einstein
radius, and the brightest-cluster-galaxy (BCG) redshift. We then constrain the
Einstein-radius-enclosed luminosity and stellar mass by fitting parametric
spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with aperture photometry from the Dark
Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS) in the , , and -band Dark Energy
Camera (DECam) filters. We find that the BCG redshift, enclosed total mass, and
enclosed luminosity are strongly correlated and well described by a planar
relationship in 3D space. We also find that the enclosed total mass and stellar
mass are correlated with a logarithmic slope of , and the
enclosed total mass and stellar-to-total mass fraction are correlated with a
logarithmic slope of . The correlations described here can be
used to validate strong lensing candidates in upcoming imaging surveys -- such
as Rubin/Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) -- in which an algorithmic
treatment of lensing systems will be needed due to the sheer volume of data
these surveys will produce.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to The Astrophysical
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Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Measuring the Survey Transfer Function with Balrog
We describe an updated calibration and diagnostic framework, Balrog, used to directly sample the selection and photometric biases of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 (Y3) data set. We systematically inject onto the single-epoch images of a random 20% subset of the DES footprint an ensemble of nearly 30 million realistic galaxy models derived from DES Deep Field observations. These augmented images are analyzed in parallel with the original data to automatically inherit measurement systematics that are often too difficult to capture with generative models. The resulting object catalog is a Monte Carlo sampling of the DES transfer function and is used as a powerful diagnostic and calibration tool for a variety of DES Y3 science, particularly for the calibration of the photometric redshifts of distant "source" galaxies and magnification biases of nearer "lens" galaxies. The recovered Balrog injections are shown to closely match the photometric property distributions of the Y3 GOLD catalog, particularly in color, and capture the number density fluctuations from observing conditions of the real data within 1% for a typical galaxy sample. We find that Y3 colors are extremely well calibrated, typically within ∼1–8 mmag, but for a small subset of objects, we detect significant magnitude biases correlated with large overestimates of the injected object size due to proximity effects and blending. We discuss approaches to extend the current methodology to capture more aspects of the transfer function and reach full coverage of the survey footprint for future analyses
Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Measuring the Survey Transfer Function with Balrog
We describe an updated calibration and diagnostic framework, Balrog, used to
directly sample the selection and photometric biases of the Dark Energy
Survey's (DES) Year 3 (Y3) dataset. We systematically inject onto the
single-epoch images of a random 20% subset of the DES footprint an ensemble of
nearly 30 million realistic galaxy models derived from DES Deep Field
observations. These augmented images are analyzed in parallel with the original
data to automatically inherit measurement systematics that are often too
difficult to capture with traditional generative models. The resulting object
catalog is a Monte Carlo sampling of the DES transfer function and is used as a
powerful diagnostic and calibration tool for a variety of DES Y3 science,
particularly for the calibration of the photometric redshifts of distant
"source" galaxies and magnification biases of nearer "lens" galaxies. The
recovered Balrog injections are shown to closely match the photometric property
distributions of the Y3 GOLD catalog, particularly in color, and capture the
number density fluctuations from observing conditions of the real data within
1% for a typical galaxy sample. We find that Y3 colors are extremely well
calibrated, typically within ~1-8 millimagnitudes, but for a small subset of
objects we detect significant magnitude biases correlated with large
overestimates of the injected object size due to proximity effects and
blending. We discuss approaches to extend the current methodology to capture
more aspects of the transfer function and reach full coverage of the survey
footprint for future analyses