J/ApJS/243/17 Strong DES lens candidates from neural networks (Jacobs+, 2019) ================================================================================ An extended catalog of galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses discovered in DES using convolutional neural networks. Jacobs C., Collett T., Glazebrook K., Buckley-Geer E., Diehl H.T., Lin H., McCarthy C., Qin A.K., Odden C., Escudero M.C., Dial P., Yung V.J., Gaitsch S., Pellico A., Lindgren K.A., Abbott T.M.C., Annis J., Avila S., Brooks D., Burke D.L., Rosell A.C., Kind M.C., Carretero J., da Costa L.N., De Vicente J., Fosalba P., Frieman J., Garcia-Bellido J., Gaztanaga E., Goldstein D.A., Gruen D., Gruendl R.A., Gschwend J., Hollowood D.L., Honscheid K., Hoyle B., James D.J., Krause E., Kuropatkin N., Lahav O., Lima M., Maia M.A.G., Marshall J.L., Miquel R., Plazas A.A., Roodman A., Sanchez E., Scarpine V., Serrano S., Sevilla-Noarbe I., Smith M., Sobreira F., Suchyta E., Swanson M.E.C., Tarle G., Vikram V., Walker A.R., Zhang Y. =2019ApJS..243...17J ================================================================================ ADC_Keywords: Gravitational lensing; Surveys; Redshifts; Photometry, RI Keywords: gravitational lensing: strong; methods: data analysis; methods: statistical; surveys Abstract: We search Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 imaging for galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses using convolutional neural networks, extending previous work with new training sets and covering a wider range of redshifts and colors. We train two neural networks using images of simulated lenses, then use them to score postage-stamp images of 7.9 million sources from DES chosen to have plausible lens colors based on simulations. We examine 1175 of the highest-scored candidates and identify 152 probable or definite lenses. Examining an additional 20000 images with lower scores, we identify a further 247 probable or definite candidates. After including 86 candidates discovered in earlier searches using neural networks and 26 candidates discovered through visual inspection of blue-near-red objects in the DES catalog, we present a catalog of 511 lens candidates. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 72 511 Strong lens candidates from visual inspection of the neural network-selected sources table5.dat 32 743 *Possible strong lens systems selected by convolutional neural network (CNN) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note on table5.dat: Possible strong lens systems but with grades 0