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From Images to Dark Matter: End-to-end Inference of Substructure from Hundreds of Strong Gravitational Lenses

From Images to Dark Matter: End-to-end Inference of Substructure from Hundreds of Strong Gravitational Lenses

Constraining the distribution of small-scale structure in our universe allows us to probe alternatives to the cold dark matter paradigm. Strong gravitational lensing offers a unique window into small dark matter halos ($<10^{10} M_\odot$) because these halos impart a gravitational lensing signal even if they do not host luminous galaxies. …