lenstronomy swMATH ID: 37024 Software Authors: Simon Birrer; Adam Amara Description: lenstronomy: Multi-purpose gravitational lens modelling software package. We present lenstronomy, a multi-purpose open-source gravitational lens modelling python package. lenstronomy is able to reconstruct the lens mass and surface brightness distributions of strong lensing systems using forward modelling. lenstronomy supports a wide range of analytic lens and light models in arbitrary combination. The software is also able to reconstruct complex extended sources (Birrer et. al 2015) as well as being able to model point sources. We designed lenstronomy to be stable, flexible and numerically accurate, with a clear user interface that could be deployed across different platforms. Throughout its development, we have actively used lenstronomy to make several measurements including deriving constraints on dark matter properties in strong lenses, measuring the expansion history of the universe with time-delay cosmography, measuring cosmic shear with Einstein rings and decomposing quasar and host galaxy light. The software is distributed under the MIT license. The documentation, starter guide, example notebooks, source code and installation guidelines can be found at https://lenstronomy.readthedocs.io. Homepage: https://lenstronomy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Source Code: https://github.com/sibirrer/lenstronomy Keywords: lenstronomy II; gravitational lensing; Journal of Open Source Software; Python; Astropy; lenstronomy API; open source Related Software: Astropy; Python; NumPy; Matplotlib; SciPy; gravlens; visilens; PyAutoLens; emcee; PyMultiNest; PyAutoFit; Numba; dynesty; corner.py; COLOSSUS; pyquad; PySwarms; scikit-image; Scikit; AutoLens Cited in: 1 Publication Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software Year Cited by 3 Authors 1 Fleury, Pierre 1 Larena, Julien 1 Uzan, Jean-Philippe Cited in 1 Serial 1 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Cited in 3 Fields 1 Optics, electromagnetic theory (78-XX) 1 Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX) 1 Astronomy and astrophysics (85-XX) Citations by Year