Assigned ID: 510 ----- Attempting Submission 1 (Fri Feb 24 17:33:05 GMT 2012) ----- HST Phase I Proposal 510 (OrphanLenses.apt) successfully submitted. ----- Attempting Submission 2 (Sat Feb 25 00:59:19 GMT 2012) ----- HST Phase I Proposal 510 (OrphanLenses.apt) successfully submitted. ----- Attempting Submission 3 (Sat Feb 25 01:04:17 GMT 2012) ----- HST Phase I Proposal 510 (OrphanLenses.apt) successfully submitted. ----- Attempting Submission 4 (Sat Feb 25 01:06:19 GMT 2012) ----- Strong gravitational lenses are uniquely suited for the study of dark matter structure and substructure within massive halos of many scales, act as gravitational telescopes for distant faint objects, and can give powerful and competitive cosmological constraints. While hundreds of strong lenses are known to date, spanning five orders of magnitude in mass scale, thousands will be identified this decade. To fully exploit the power of these objects presently, and in the near future, we are creating the Master Lens Database. This is a clearinghouse of all known strong lens systems, with a sophisticated and modern database of uniformly measured and derived observational and lens-model derived quantities, using archival Hubble data across several instruments. This Database enables new science that can be done with a comprehensive sample of strong lenses. The operational goal of this proposal is to develop the process and the code to semi-automatically stage Hubble data of each system, create appropriate masks of the lensing objects and lensing features, and derive gravitational lens models, to provide a uniform and fairly comprehensive information set that is ingested into the Database. The scientific goal for this team is to use the properties of the ensemble of lenses to make a new study of the internal structure of lensing galaxies, and to identify new objects that show evidence of strong substructure lensing, for follow-up study. All data, scripts, masks, model setup files, and derived parameters, will be public, and free. The Database will be accessible online and through a sophisticated smartphone application, which will also be free. COSMOLOGY 12 Medium false 0.0 0.0 false false false false SUPPORTED