When Darwin Met Einstein: Gravitational Lens Inversion with Genetic Algorithms

Details When Darwin Met Einstein: Gravitational Lens Inversion with Genetic Algorithms When Darwin Met Einstein: Gravitational Lens Inversion with Genetic Algorithms

2005-01-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0501202v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, to appear in PASA

Scientific paper

10.1071/AS04070

Gravitational lensing can magnify a distant source, revealing structural detail which is normally unresolvable. Recovering this detail through an inversion of the influence of gravitational lensing, however, requires optimisation of not only lens parameters, but also of the surface brightness distribution of the source. This paper outlines a new approach to this inversion, utilising genetic algorithms to reconstruct the source profile. In this initial study, the effects of image degradation due to instrumental and atmospheric effects are neglected and it is assumed that the lens model is accurately known, but the genetic algorithm approach can be incorporated into more general optimisation techniques, allowing the optimisation of both the parameters for a lensing model and the surface brightness of the source.

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