Crowd-sourced discovery of gravitational lenses. We are a Zooniverse project, which launched in Spring 2013 at http://spacewarps.org. This repository contains code and documentation being developed by the science team.
Two papers on the first dataset we searched for lenses, the CFHTLS, are being prepared:
- Marshall et al 2014, in prep: Crowd-sourcing the Discovery of Gravitational Lenses
- More et al 2014, in prep: Results from CFHTLS
The web app itself is being developed here as part of the Zooniverse project. If you are interested in building a site like Space Warps using Zooniverse techology, keep an eye on their website or drop them a line.
See also, for fun:
- Phil Marshall (KIPAC, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
- Aprajita Verma (Physics Department, University of Oxford)
- Anupreeta More (Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo)
All our code is free to re-use under the GPL v2 license, which just means you have to make yours available in the same way. If you make use of any of it in your research, please cite us at this website, and (for now) as "(Marshall et al, More et al in preparation)". Please do get in touch though - it would be great to collaborate on improving the SWAP analysis, for example!