The LensingETC tool allows to optimize observing strategies for multi-filter
imaging campaigns of galaxy-scale strong lensing systems. See Shajib et al.
(2022) for a description of the tool. See the notebook Lensing Exposure
Time Calculator.ipynb for an example of how to setup and run the tool.
LensingETC is built on top of lenstronomy(GitHub repo),
a lens modelling software program affiliated
with Astropy. See here
for a full list of contributors to lenstronomy.
This package does not need an installation, as it is intended to be used
through a Jupyter notebook that is placed at the same directory of the file
lensing_etc.py. However, lenstronomy needs to be installed, which can be
done with:
pip install lenstronomy
You can also check the
lenstronomy(GitHub repo) page if you
want to install a bleeding-edge version.
If you have used LensingETC in planning an observing campaign, we request
you to cite the following paper in your publication that uses data from the observing campaign: