Connor J Stone

PhDAstrophysics | Data Science | Science Communication

Latest Publications


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Caustics: A Python Package for Accelerated Strong Gravitational Lensing Simulations Gravitational lensing is the deflection of light rays due to the gravity of intervening masses. This phenomenon is observed in a variety of scales and configurations, involving any non-uniform mass such as planets, stars, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and even the large scale structure of the universe. Strong lensing occurs when the distortions are… August 7, 2024
August 7, 2024
AstroPhot: Fitting Everything Everywhere All at Once in Astronomical Images We present AstroPhot, a fast, powerful, and user-friendly Python based astronomical image photometry solver. AstroPhot incorporates automatic differentiation and GPU (or parallel CPU) acceleration, powered by the machine learning library PyTorch. Everything: AstroPhot can fit models for sky, stars, galaxies, PSFs, and more in a principled χ2 forward optimization, recovering Bayesian posterior information and… August 17, 2023
August 7, 2024
PROBES. I. A Compendium of Deep Rotation Curves and Matched Multiband Photometry We present the Photometry and Rotation Curve Observations from Extragalactic Surveys (PROBES) compendium of extended rotation curves for 3163 late-typespirals, with matching homogeneous multiband photometry for 1677 of them.PROBES rotation curves originally extracted from Halpha long-slit spectra andaperture synthesis HI (21cm) velocity maps typically extend out to a median2R_e (or 1R_{23.5, r}). Our… September 22, 2022
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