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In particular, as a demonstration, we present the lens model for DESI-165.4754−06.0423, with imaging data from HST, and lens and source redshifts from DESI and Keck NIRES, respectively. In this effort, we have applied a\n                    <jats:italic>fully</jats:italic>\n                    forward-modeling Bayesian approach (\n                    <jats:monospace>GIGA-Lens</jats:monospace>\n                    ), using\n                    <jats:italic>multiple</jats:italic>\n                    GPUs, to a strong lens with HST data, and achieved statistical convergence.\n                  </jats:p>","journal":"The Astrophysical Journal","year":2026,"id":1827,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.4092,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2026-02-03","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":20654,"name":"Saul Baltasar","orcid":"0009-0003-4697-7079","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":20655,"name":"Nicolas Ratier-Werbin","orcid":"0009-0009-8206-0325","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":20656,"name":"Christopher Storfer","orcid":"0000-0002-0385-0014","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":20657,"name":"W. 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