lenstronomy release 1.5.0

[Simon Birrer]

Dear Lenstronomers,

lenstronomy version 1.5.0 has been released on pypi. It follows the current master branch and the extension notebooks have been updated accordingly.

The release itself is minor but there is one change that most of you will be affected:

The previously known lens model ‘SPEMD’ has been renamed to ‘PEMD’, which stands for Power-law Elliptical Mass Distribution.

The previously known ‘SPEMD_SMOOTH’ has been renamed to ‘SPEMD’, which stands for Smoothed Power-law Elliptical Mass Distribution.

So the previous naming was inconsistent and I finally decided to change it. The only thing you need to change is the name of the lens model profile in your scripts.

I have also updated some of the example notebooks with more detailed descriptions based on your feedback and questions. - Thank you very much for this!

Let me know if you have questions, find bugs or have suggestions for improvements!

Best,

Simon

lenstronomy 1.5.0 release notes - April 5th 2020

Lens Model module:

- re-naming profile SPEMD -> PEMD

- re-naming profile SPEMD_SMOOTH -> SPEMD

- Warning statement when fastell4py is not installed changed to raise statement

ImSim module:

- Option in adaptive numerics without super-sampled convolution kernel for speed-up

Sampling module:

- re-designed MPI pool such that dependency on schwimmbad is on master branch