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Discovering Strong Gravitational Lenses in the Dark Energy Survey with Interactive Machine Learning and Crowd-sourced Inspection with Space Warps

  • Authors: J. González, P. Holloway, T. Collett, A. Verma, K. Bechtol, P. Marshall, A. More, J. Acevedo Barroso, G. Cartwright, M. Martinez, T. Li, K. Rojas, S. Schuldt, S. Birrer, H. T. Diehl, R. Morgan, A. Drlica-Wagner, J. H. O'Donnell, E. Zaborowski, B. Nord, E. M. Baeten, L. C. Johnson, C. Macmillan, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena, S. S. Allam, D. Brooks, E. Buckley-Geer, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, J. Carretero, R. Cawthon, T. M. Davis, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, P. Doel, S. Everett, B. Flaugher, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, G. Giannini, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, G. Gutierrez, S. R. Hinton, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, D. J. James, K. Kuehn, O. Lahav, S. Lee, M. Lima, J. L. Marshall, J. Mena-Fernández, R. Miquel, J. Myles, M. E. S. Pereira, A. Pieres, A. A. Plazas Malagón, A. Roodman, S. Samuroff, E. Sanchez, D. Sanchez Cid, B. Santiago, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, M. Smith, E. Suchyta, G. Tarle, D. L. Tucker, V. Vikram, A. R. Walker, N. Weaverdyck

J. González et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1002 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

Examples of strong lensing candidates (C. Jacobs et al. 2019a, 2019b; J. H. O’Donnell et al. 2022) not retrieved by the main ML model. Each image title indicates the assigned class, the model’s probability of being “Single” (single-plane strong lens), and the expert-assigned “grade” or “rank” (0–3 for Jacobs, 0–10 for O’Donnell). Candidates from the O’Donnell catalog have a green frame, while those from the Jacobs catalog have a purple frame. Most unrecovered candidates lack definite strong lensing signs (with lower “grades” from C. Jacobs et al. 2019a, 2019b) or group-scale strong lensing candidates. Each cutout measures ∼12″ × 12″.

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