Simon Birrer

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First-authored papers

1. [2106.05976] lenstronomy II: A gravitational lensing software ecosystem (Jun 10, 2021)
   Simon Birrer, Anowar J. Shajib, Daniel Gilman, Aymeric Galan, Jelle Aalbers, Martin Millon, Robert Morgan, Giulia Pagano, Ji Won Park, Luca Teodori, Nicolas Tessore, Madison Ueland, Lyne Van de Vyvere, Sebastian Wagner-Carena, Ewoud Wempe, Lilan Yang, Xuheng Ding, Thomas Schmidt, Dominique Sluse, Ming Zhang, Adam Amara
   
   

Co-authored papers

1. [2506.03390] The Roman View of Strong Gravitational Lenses (Jun 3, 2025)
   Bryce Wedig, Tansu Daylan, Simon Birrer, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Cora Dvorkin, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Alan Huang, Xiaosheng Huang, Rahul Karthik, Narayan Khadka, Priyamvada Natarajan, Anna M. Nierenberg, Annika H. G. Peter, Justin D. R. Pierel, Xianzhe TZ Tang, Risa H. Wechsler
   
   
2. [2404.14487] A Strong Gravitational Lens Is Worth a Thousand Dark Matter Halos: Inference on Small-Scale Structure Using Sequential Methods (Apr 22, 2024)
   Sebastian Wagner-Carena, Jaehoon Lee, Jeffrey Pennington, Jelle Aalbers, Simon Birrer, Risa H. Wechsler
   
   
3. [2306.11784] NANCY: Next-generation All-sky Near-infrared Community surveY (Jun 20, 2023)
   Jiwon Jesse Han, Arjun Dey, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Joan Najita, Edward F. Schlafly, Andrew Saydjari, Risa H. Wechsler, Ana Bonaca, David J Schlegel, Charlie Conroy, Anand Raichoor, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Juna A. Kollmeier, Sergey E. Koposov, Gurtina Besla, Hans-Walter Rix, Alyssa Goodman, Douglas Finkbeiner, Abhijeet Anand, Matthew Ashby, Benedict Bahr-Kalus, Rachel Beaton, Jayashree Behera, Eric F. Bell, Eric C Bellm, Segev BenZvi, Leandro Beraldo e Silva, Simon Birrer, Michael R. Blanton, Jamie Bock, Floor Broekgaarden, Dillon Brout, Warren Brown, Anthony G. A. Brown, Esra Bulbul, Rodrigo Calderon, Jeffrey L Carlin, Andreia Carrillo, Francisco Javier Castander, Priyanka Chakraborty, Vedant Chandra, Yi-Kuan Chiang, Yumi Choi, Susan E. Clark, William I. Clarkson, Andrew Cooper, Brendan Crill, Katia Cunha, Emily Cunningham, Julianne Dalcanton, Shany Danieli, Tansu Daylan, Roelof S. de Jong, Joseph DeRose, Biprateep Dey, Mark Dickinson, Mariano Dominguez, Dillon Dong, Tim Eifler, Kareem El-Badry, Denis Erkal, Ivanna Escala, Giovanni Fazio, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Simone Ferraro, Carrie Filion, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Shenming Fu, Lluís Galbany, Nicolas Garavito-Camargo, Eric Gawiser, Marla Geha, Oleg Y. Gnedin, Sebastian Gomez, Jenny Greene, Julien Guy, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Keith Hawkins, Chen Heinrich, Lars Hernquist, Christopher Hirata, Joseph Hora, Benjamin Horowitz, Danny Horta, Caroline Huang, Xiaosheng Huang, Shan Huanyuan, Jason A. S. Hunt, Rodrigo Ibata, Buell Jannuzi, Kathryn V. Johnston, Michael G. Jones, Stephanie Juneau, Erin Kado-Fong, Venu Kalari, Nitya Kallivayalil, Tanveer Karim, Ryan Keeley, Sergey Khoperskov, Bokyoung Kim, András Kovács, Elisabeth Krause, Kyle Kremer, Anthony Kremin, Alex Krolewski, S. R. Kulkarni, Marine Kuna, Benjamin L'Huillier, Mark Lacy, Ting-Wen Lan, Dustin Lang, Denis Leahy, Jiaxuan Li, Seunghwan Lim, Mercedes López-Morales, Lucas Macri, Manera Marc, Sidney Mau, Patrick J McCarthy, Eithne McDonald, Kristen McQuinn, Aaron Meisner, Gary Melnick, Andrea Merloni, Cléa Millard, Martin Millon, Ivan Minchev, Paulo Montero-Camacho, Catalina Morales-Gutierrez, Nidia Morrell, John Moustakas, Leonidas Moustakas, Zachary Murray, Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil, GyuChul Myeong, Adam D. Myers, Ethan Nadler, Felipe Navarete, Melissa Ness, David L. Nidever, Robert Nikutta, Chamba Nushkia, Knut Olsen, Andrew B. Pace, Fabio Pacucci, Nikhil Padmanabhan, David Parkinson, Sarah Pearson, Eric W. Peng, Andreea O. Petric, Andreea Petric, Bridget Ratcliffe, Emami Razieh, Thomas Reiprich, Mehdi Rezaie, Marina Ricci, R. Michael Rich, Hannah Richstein, Alexander H. Riley, Constance Rockosi, Graziano Rossi, Mara Salvato, Lado Samushia, Javier Sanchez, David J Sand, Robyn E Sanderson, Nikolina Šarčević, Arnab Sarkar, Alessandro Savino, Francois Schweizer, Arman Shafieloo, Yang Shengqi, Joseph Shields, Nora Shipp, Josh Simon, Malgorzata Siudek, Zou Siwei, Zachary Slepian, Verne Smith, Jennifer Sobeck, Sangmo Tony Sohn, Debopam Som, Joshua S. Speagle, David Spergel, Robert Szabo, Ting Tan, Christopher Theissen, Erik Tollerud, Volker Tolls, Kim-Vy Tran, Kabelo Tsiane, William D. Vacca, Monica Valluri, TonyLouis Verberi, Jack Warfield, Noah Weaverdyck, Benjamin Weiner, Daniel Weisz, Andrew Wetzel, Martin White, Christina C. Williams, Scott Wolk, John F. Wu, Rosemary Wyse, Justina R. Yang, Dennis Zaritsky, Ioana A. Zelko, Zhou Zhimin, Catherine Zucker
   
   
4. [2209.08215] Report of the Topical Group on Cosmic Probes of Dark Matter for Snowmass 2021 (Sep 17, 2022)
   Alex Drlica-Wagner, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Hai-Bo Yu, Andrea Albert, Mustafa Amin, Arka Banerjee, Masha Baryakhtar, Keith Bechtol, Simeon Bird, Simon Birrer, Torsten Bringmann, Regina Caputo, Sukanya Chakrabarti, Thomas Y. Chen, Djuna Croon, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, William A. Dawson, Cora Dvorkin, Vera Gluscevic, Daniel Gilman, Daniel Grin, Renée Hložek, Rebecca K. Leane, Ting S. Li, Yao-Yuan Mao, Joel Meyers, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Julian B. Muñoz, Ferah Munshi, Ethan O. Nadler, Aditya Parikh, Kerstin Perez, Annika H. G. Peter, Stefano Profumo, Katelin Schutz, Neelima Sehgal, Joshua D. Simon, Kuver Sinha, Monica Valluri, Risa H. Wechsler
   
   
5. [2203.07354] Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Dark Matter Physics from Halo Measurements (Mar 14, 2022)
   Keith Bechtol, Simon Birrer, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Katelin Schutz, Susmita Adhikari, Mustafa Amin, Arka Banerjee, Simeon Bird, Nikita Blinov, Kimberly K. Boddy, Celine Boehm, Kevin Bundy, Malte Buschmann, Sukanya Chakrabarti, David Curtin, Liang Dai, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Cora Dvorkin, Adrienne L. Erickcek, Daniel Gilman, Saniya Heeba, Stacy Kim, Vid Iršič, Alexie Leauthaud, Mark Lovell, Zarija Lukić, Yao-Yuan Mao, Sidney Mau, Andrea Mitridate, Philip Mocz, Julian B. Muñoz, Ethan O. Nadler, Annika H. G. Peter, Adrian Price-Whelan, Andrew Robertson, Nashwan Sabti, Neelima Sehgal, Nora Shipp, Joshua D. Simon, Rajeev Singh, Ken Van Tilburg, Risa H. Wechsler, Axel Widmark, Hai-Bo Yu
   
   
6. [2203.07252] Snowmass2021: Vera C. Rubin Observatory as a Flagship Dark Matter Experiment (Mar 14, 2022)
   Yao-Yuan Mao, Annika H. G. Peter, Susmita Adhikari, Keith Bechtol, Simeon Bird, Simon Birrer, Jonathan Blazek, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Nushkia Chamba, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Tansu Daylan, Birendra Dhanasingham, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Cora Dvorkin, Christopher Fassnacht, Eric Gawiser, Maurizio Giannotti, Vera Gluscevic, Alma Gonzalez-Morales, Renee Hlozek, M. James Jee, Stacy Kim, Akhtar Mahmood, Rachel Mandelbaum, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Marc Moniez, Ethan O. Nadler, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, J. Anthony Tyson, Risa H. Wechsler, Hai-Bo Yu, Gabrijela Zaharijas
   
   
7. [2203.00690] From Images to Dark Matter: End-To-End Inference of Substructure From Hundreds of Strong Gravitational Lenses (Mar 1, 2022)
   Sebastian Wagner-Carena, Jelle Aalbers, Simon Birrer, Ethan O. Nadler, Elise Darragh-Ford, Philip J. Marshall, Risa H. Wechsler
   
   
8. [2101.07810] Dark Matter Constraints from a Unified Analysis of Strong Gravitational Lenses and Milky Way Satellite Galaxies (Jan 19, 2021)
   Ethan O. Nadler, Simon Birrer, Daniel Gilman, Risa H. Wechsler, Xiaolong Du, Andrew Benson, Anna M. Nierenberg, Tommaso Treu
   
   
9. [2010.13787] Hierarchical Inference With Bayesian Neural Networks: An Application to Strong Gravitational Lensing (Oct 26, 2020)
   Sebastian Wagner-Carena, Ji Won Park, Simon Birrer, Philip J. Marshall, Aaron Roodman, Risa H. Wechsler
   
   
10. [1903.04425] Dark Matter Science in the Era of LSST (Mar 11, 2019)
    Keith Bechtol, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Kevork N. Abazajian, Muntazir Abidi, Susmita Adhikari, Yacine Ali-Haïmoud, James Annis, Behzad Ansarinejad, Robert Armstrong, Jacobo Asorey, Carlo Baccigalupi, Arka Banerjee, Nilanjan Banik, Charles Bennett, Florian Beutler, Simeon Bird, Simon Birrer, Rahul Biswas, Andrea Biviano, Jonathan Blazek, Kimberly K. Boddy, Ana Bonaca, Julian Borrill, Sownak Bose, Jo Bovy, Brenda Frye, Alyson M. Brooks, Matthew R. Buckley, Elizabeth Buckley-Geer, Esra Bulbul, Patricia R. Burchat, Cliff Burgess, Francesca Calore, Regina Caputo, Emanuele Castorina, Chihway Chang, George Chapline, Eric Charles, Xingang Chen, Douglas Clowe, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Johan Comparat, Rupert A. C. Croft, Alessandro Cuoco, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Guido D'Amico, Tamara M Davis, William A. Dawson, Axel de la Macorra, Eleonora Di Valentino, Ana Díaz Rivero, Seth Digel, Scott Dodelson, Olivier Doré, Cora Dvorkin, Christopher Eckner, John Ellison, Denis Erkal, Arya Farahi, Christopher D. Fassnacht, Pedro G. Ferreira, Brenna Flaugher, Simon Foreman, Oliver Friedrich, Joshua Frieman, Juan García-Bellido, Eric Gawiser, Martina Gerbino, Maurizio Giannotti, Mandeep S. S. Gill, Vera Gluscevic, Nathan Golovich, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Alma X. González-Morales, Daniel Grin, Daniel Gruen, Andrew P. Hearin, David Hendel, Yashar D. Hezaveh, Christopher M. Hirata, Renee Hložek, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Bhuvnesh Jain, M. James Jee, Tesla E. Jeltema, Marc Kamionkowski, Manoj Kaplinghat, Ryan E. Keeley, Charles R. Keeton, Rishi Khatri, Sergey E. Koposov, Savvas M. Koushiappas, Ely D. Kovetz, Ofer Lahav, Casey Lam, Chien-Hsiu Lee, Ting S. Li, Michele Liguori, Tongyan Lin, Mariangela Lisanti, Marilena LoVerde, Jessica R. Lu, Rachel Mandelbaum, Yao-Yuan Mao, Samuel D. McDermott, Mitch McNanna, Michael Medford, P. Daniel Meerburg, Manuel Meyer, Mehrdad Mirbabayi, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Moniez Marc, Surhud More, John Moustakas, Julian B. Muñoz, Simona Murgia, Adam D. Myers, Ethan O. Nadler, Lina Necib, Laura Newburgh, Jeffrey A. Newman, Brian Nord, Erfan Nourbakhsh, Eric Nuss, Paul O'Connor, Andrew B. Pace, Hamsa Padmanabhan, Antonella Palmese, Hiranya V. Peiris, Annika H. G. Peter, Francesco Piacentni, Francesco Piacentini, Andrés Plazas, Daniel A. Polin, Abhishek Prakash, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Justin I. Read, Steven Ritz, Brant E. Robertson, Benjamin Rose, Rogerio Rosenfeld, Graziano Rossi, Lado Samushia, Javier Sánchez, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, Emmanuel Schaan, Neelima Sehgal, Leonardo Senatore, Hee-Jong Seo, Arman Shafieloo, Huanyuan Shan, Nora Shipp, Joshua D. Simon, Sara Simon, Tracy R. Slatyer, Anže Slosar, Srivatsan Sridhar, Albert Stebbins, Oscar Straniero, Louis E. Strigari, Tim M. P. Tait, Erik Tollerud, M. A. Troxel, J. Anthony Tyson, Cora Uhlemann, L. Arturo Urenña-López, Aprajita Verma, Ricardo Vilalta, Christopher W. Walter, Mei-Yu Wang, Scott Watson, Risa H. Wechsler, David Wittman, Weishuang Xu, Brian Yanny, Sam Young, Hai-Bo Yu, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Andrew R. Zentner, Joe Zuntz
    
    
11. [1902.01055] Probing the Fundamental Nature of Dark Matter with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (Feb 4, 2019)
    Alex Drlica-Wagner, Yao-Yuan Mao, Susmita Adhikari, Robert Armstrong, Arka Banerjee, Nilanjan Banik, Keith Bechtol, Simeon Bird, Kimberly K. Boddy, Ana Bonaca, Jo Bovy, Matthew R. Buckley, Esra Bulbul, Chihway Chang, George Chapline, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Alessandro Cuoco, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, William A. Dawson, Ana Díaz Rivero, Cora Dvorkin, Denis Erkal, Christopher D. Fassnacht, Juan García-Bellido, Maurizio Giannotti, Vera Gluscevic, Nathan Golovich, David Hendel, Yashar D. Hezaveh, Shunsaku Horiuchi, M. James Jee, Manoj Kaplinghat, Charles R. Keeton, Sergey E. Koposov, Casey Y. Lam, Ting S. Li, Jessica R. Lu, Rachel Mandelbaum, Samuel D. McDermott, Mitch McNanna, Michael Medford, Manuel Meyer, Moniez Marc, Simona Murgia, Ethan O. Nadler, Lina Necib, Eric Nuss, Andrew B. Pace, Annika H. G. Peter, Daniel A. Polin, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Justin I. Read, Rogerio Rosenfeld, Nora Shipp, Joshua D. Simon, Tracy R. Slatyer, Oscar Straniero, Louis E. Strigari, Erik Tollerud, J. Anthony Tyson, Mei-Yu Wang, Risa H. Wechsler, David Wittman, Hai-Bo Yu, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Yacine Ali-Haïmoud, James Annis, Simon Birrer, Rahul Biswas, Jonathan Blazek, Alyson M. Brooks, Elizabeth Buckley-Geer, Regina Caputo, Eric Charles, Seth Digel, Scott Dodelson, Brenna Flaugher, Joshua Frieman, Eric Gawiser, Andrew P. Hearin, Renee Hložek, Bhuvnesh Jain, Tesla E. Jeltema, Savvas M. Koushiappas, Mariangela Lisanti, Marilena LoVerde, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Jeffrey A. Newman, Brian Nord, Erfan Nourbakhsh, Steven Ritz, Brant E. Robertson, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, Anže Slosar, Tim M. P. Tait, Aprajita Verma, Ricardo Vilalta, Christopher W. Walter, Brian Yanny, Andrew R. Zentner