lenstronomy release 1.6.0

[Simon Birrer]

Dear lenstronomy community,

I am pleased to announce the release of lenstronomy version 1.6.0 on PyPi.

This version is following the current master branch. This is a minor release and most scripts you run should be able to run without changes. You can find the release notes below and the extension notebooks are all updated to 1.6.0 (basically without changes).

Thank you very much for your direct contribution to this release (@Aymeric Galan, @Nicolas Tessore, @Madison Ueland, @Lyne Van de Vyvere, @Daniel Gilman, @Ji Won Park) and all your feedback that helps improving the source code and documentation of lenstronomy!

If you encounter problems or have questions, please let me know! You can ping me by email, start a thread on Slack or open an issue on GitHub (Github issues and Slack preferred as it is the most transparent for all users to see).

Please spread the word to your colleague and make them join the mailing list and/or Slack channel to stay up to date with the development.

Best,

Simon

lenstronomy v1.6.0 release notes (09.07.2020):

ImSim module:

- interface with SLITronomy (https://github.com/aymgal/SLITronomy) for using the SLIT algorithm within lenstronomy (for specific model choices) (by Aymeric Galan).

- lens equation solver keyword arguments are jointly part of ‘kwargs_lens_eqn_solver’ within ‘kwargs_model’ to simplify model instances and for identical use in the Analysis module

- dependency of convolution compatible with latest scipy version

LensModel module:

- ‘EPL' model with identical parameterization as ‘PEMD' (‘gamma’ previously ’t’)

- Multipole model (by Lyne Van de Vyvere)

SimulationAPI module:

- simplified design

- incorporation of observation configuration templates of current and future surveys (by Madison Ueland and Ji Won Park)

Sampling module:

- enabled sampling of redshifts in multi lens plane mode (still experimental)

Workflow module:

- adopted PSF reconstruction for error estimates

Various minor improvements and documentation.