A sampling strategy for high-dimensional spaces applied to free-form gravitational lensing

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 425, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3077-3084

  Lubini, Mario ^a   Coles, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gravitational lensing: strong; Methods: numerical; Methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

SAMPLING;

CONVEX POLYTOPES; FREEFORMS; GRAVITATIONAL LENS; GRAVITATIONAL LENSING; GRAVITATIONAL LENSING: STRONG; HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPACES; METHOD: NUMERICAL; METHODS:STATISTICAL; METROPOLIS-HASTINGS ALGORITHM; SAMPLING STRATEGIES;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84891361163     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21673.x     Document Type: Article

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