Astro Tools

LensCalc

Einstein radius, enclosed mass, image positions, magnification and time delay for a singular isothermal sphere or a point-mass lens, in flat ΛCDM.

Lens model
Given
Cosmology: flat ΛCDM, H0 = 67.66, Ωm = 0.30966 (Planck 2018)
Examples:

Lens plane

Source (unlensed position) Image, positive parity Image, negative parity

Total magnification vs source offset

Dot: the current β. Hover the curve to read μ at other offsets.

Images

Formulas used


    

Distances are angular-diameter distances in a flat universe with matter and Λ only (radiation neglected; differences from astropy's Planck18 are below 0.3% at z < 10). Dls = (DC(zs) − DC(zl)) / (1 + zs). M(<θE) is the projected mass inside the Einstein radius, valid for any circularly symmetric lens. Real cluster lenses need a full mass model; the isothermal sphere gives order-of-magnitude numbers.