strong lensing lectures

A set of interactive lecture notes about strong gravitational lensing. This is work in progress.

The lecture notes are in the form of Jupyter notebooks and are making use of lenstronomy.

• lecture I: lensing basics
• lecture II: lensing observables and degeneracies
• lecture III: lens modelling

If you have feedback, please let me know!

There are also an additional set of educational notebooks available in the Examples folder.

Additional material and partial sources of the notebooks:

Lecture notes:

• Lecture notes by M. Meneghetti
• Bartelmann & Schneider 2001; Weak gravitational lensing
• Slides by S. Suyu for the XXIV Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics 2012
• wikipedia: gravitational lensing formalism
• Saas Fee lectures by C.S. Kochanek, P. Schneider, J. Wambsganss 2004
• Introduction to Gravitational Lensing and Cosmology, P. Schneider
• Weak Gravitational Lensing, Bartelmann & Maturi 2017

Books (incomplete collection):

• Introduction to Gravitational Lensing (with Python exampels); by M. Meneghetti

Other open-source notebooks (incomplete collection)

• LensingLectures; by M. Meneghetti