Pangloss is software module for reconstructing all the mass within a light cone through the Universe. Understanding complex mass distributions like this is important for accurate time delay lens cosmography, and also for accurate lens magnification estimation. It aspires to use all available data in an attempt to make the best of all mass maps. However, this problem is sufficiently difficult that we are mostly spending our time cultivating a garden of toy models and baby steps.
If you are interested in the ongoing investigation of this interesting problem, you should:
- Read our first paper, "Reconstructing the lensing mass in the universe from photometric catalogue data;"
- Browse the wiki to see what our current plans are;
- Fork the code and play around with it;
- Contact us (Phil Marshall, dr.phil.marshall@gmail.com, and Tom Collett, tcollett@ast.cam.ac.uk). We are keen to hear from other researchers in the field who would like to coordinate and/or collaborate with us!
Pangloss is distributed under the Gnu Public License (GPL) v2, a copy of which is delivered with this code. This basically means you can do anything you like with it, as long as you keep propagating the license information.
However, when reporting on your use of Pangloss, we do ask that you include:
- A citation to: Collett et al. (2013), MNRAS accepted, arxiv/1303.6564
- An acknowledgment including a link to this repo, such as: "This work made use of the Pangloss code, written by Tom Collett and Phil Marshall, which is freely available at https://github.com/drphilmarshall/Pangloss."
After cloning or forking the repository, add the following lines (or similar) to your .login file:
setenv PANGLOSS_DIR ${WORK_DIR}/Pangloss
setenv PYTHONPATH ${PANGLOSS_DIR}/Pangloss:${PYTHONPATH}
setenv PATH ${PATH}:${PANGLOSS_DIR}
Then "import pangloss" from python should just work, and the command line scripts should too. However, you will need to have the following packages installed as well:
import atpy,asciitable,pyfits
import numpy,scipy,getopt,matplotlib
Most (if not all) are available via pip and/or homebrew.
Right now, there are three main scripts that carry out Pangloss's functions:
- Drill.py: from an input catalog of galaxies (either real or simulated), drill out a narrow lightcone (or set of lightcones) centred on some sky position of interest, and save the resulting smaller catalog (or catalogs).
- Reconstruct.py: read in a lightcone catalog (or set of catalogs), and assign dark matter mass to the galaxies within, probabilistically. Each lightcone yields its own Pr(kappah|D), where kappah is the total gravitational lensing convergence at the centre of the lightcone - this quantity is of great relevance to the strong lens time delay distance in particular.
- Calibrate.py: kappah is (at the moment) a fairly crude approximation to the "true" convergence kappa - but we have shown that one can recover a better approximation by considering Pr(kappah,kappa|C), where C is large set of lightcone catalogs drawn from a cosmological simulation. The resulting PDF Pr(kappah|D,C) contains the assumption that this simulation is an accurate representation of our real Universe - but we're working towards relaxing this.
They all take, as their sole input, the same configuration file, an example of which is given here.
In the calib directory we include the means to obtain the halo catalog for a 1x1 square degree patch of Millennium Simulation sky, and its associated ray traced convergence map, for making the calibration lightcones. A small mock observed galaxy catalog is included in the example directory, for testing.
To get the test data, please do the following:
cd calib
Fetch.csh
The Fetch script uses wget. Additional galaxy catalogs and ray-traced convergence maps from the Millenium Simulation are available from Stefan Hilbert on request.
You should then be able to execute the following example analysis:
cd example
Drill.py example.config
Reconstruct.py example.config
Calibrate.py example.config
Analysing from start to finish will take some time. Be patient! (Drill ~2 mins, Reconstruct ~10 mins)
For more details of what the Pangloss scripts are doing, start reading the code here.