Model-fitting and Numerical Simulation
The data and figures on this page are described in K.-H. Chae, The Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey: statistical strong lensing, cosmological parameters, and global properties of galaxy populations. You can get a postscript preprint from Astro-ph.
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Each data file contains a grid of Delta(chi-squared) values on a 2-D or 3-D parameter (sub)space. Here chi-squared = -2 ln(Likelihood). The first column of each file is the array of Delta(chi-squared) values. Please ignore the other columns if present.
Since a multi-dimensional grid was written into a column using a nested loop, the data column has to be read using the same nested loop. I will use letters I, J, and K as indices from the outer to the inner loop. In other words, J runs within I (and K runs within J). Each index corresponds to an axis (of a parameter space) representing an astrophysical quantity.
2-D grids
All the 2-D grid are shown on Figures 6, 7, 8 and 9 of astro-ph/0211244. At each grid point of each parameter plane, the rest of the free parameters were varied to minimize the chi-squared.
3-D grids
The axes of the 3-D space are Omega_matter, Omega_Lambda, & sigma_*^(e). The other two free parameters [i.e. ellipticity & sigma_*^(s)] are held fixed at their global maximum likelihood estimates. The files are gzipped to reduce their size.
Each 3-D grid can be regarded as the sigma_*^(e) axis added to the Omega_matter-Omega_Lambda plane. Thus, CLASS_3Dgrid_x.dat corresponds to the extension of OmLam_CLASS_profgrid_x.dat (where x=a, b, c, d) shown on Fig. 6.
I: runs from 0 to 200 corresponds to Omega_matter of [0, 4]
J: runs from 0 to 200, corresponds to Omega_Lambda of [-1, 3]
K: runs from 0 to 200, corresponds to sigma_*^(e) of [100, 300]