PS1QLS

The Pan-STARRS 1 Quasar Lens Search, documents and analysis code.

If you are a PS1SC member, you can read our original notes and plans at the PS1SC wiki. More recently, you can follow our progress here:

• Investigating catalog selection in the SDSS DR10 testbed

People

• Phil Marshall (KIPAC)
• Eric Morganson (MPIA)
• Mike Baumer (KIPAC)

Citation, Licensing etc

This is work in progress. If you are interested in finding and using lenses in the PS1 survey, please do drop us a note in the issues! If you make use of any of the ideas or code in this repository, please cite us as (Marshall et al in preparation). The code is available via the MIT licence.

Using the Code

Python code for this project is in the "PS1QLS" sub-directory. Add this to your path, and then just

import PS1QLS

from python. We are trying to keep things object-oriented. Hah!