[PRE REVIEW]: Caustics: A Python Package for Accelerated Strong Gravitational Lensing Simulations

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Submitting author: @ConnorStoneAstro (Connor Stone)
Repository: https://github.com/Ciela-Institute/caustics
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Reviewers: @andigu
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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.21105/joss.03283 is OK
- 10.21105/joss.02825 is OK
- 10.3847/1538-4357/ac6de4 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2404.14487 is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/stu1859 is OK
- 10.1051/0004-6361/202039363 is OK
- 10.1051/0004-6361/201015481 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2302.05329 is OK
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.122001 is OK
- 10.3847/1538-4357/acf5cd is OK
- 10.1117/1.JATIS.9.2.028007 is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/stad2477 is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/staa1477 is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/stac311 is OK
- 10.3847/1538-4357/ab4c41 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2206.14820 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2010.07032 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2211.04365 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2402.08725 is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/staa278 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.1805.07439 is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/stx2052 is OK
- 10.3847/1538-4357/abd62b is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/stz3094 is OK
- 10.1038/s41592-019-0686-2 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.1701.02434 is OK
- 10.1086/670067 is OK
- 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/11/048 is OK
- 10.1038/nature23463 is OK
- 10.3847/2041-8213/aa9704 is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/stu1284 is OK
- 10.1086/506266 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2211.03812 is OK
- 10.3847/1538-4357/accf84 is OK
- 10.1051/0004-6361/202243054 is OK
- 10.1088/0004-637X/811/1/20 is OK
- 10.1038/s41550-021-01450-9 is OK
- 10.3847/2041-8213/ac9d39 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: LENSTOOL: A Gravitational Lensing Software for Mod...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: GRAVLENS: Computational Methods for Gravitational ...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Dee...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: JAX: composable transformations of Python+NumPy pr...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Numba: A llvm-based python jit compiler
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Pyro: Deep universal probabilistic programming

INVALID DOIs

- None

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Commit count by author:

   216	Connor Stone
   126	Adam Coogan
    38	AlexandreAdam
    27	Alexandre Adam
    21	Connor Stone, PhD
    20	Don Setiawan
    19	Andreas Filipp
    12	pre-commit-ci[bot]
    10	dependabot[bot]
     8	Cordero Core
     6	mjyb16
     1	Gabriel Missael Barco
     1	Landung 'Don' Setiawan

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📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 3248

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

✅ License found: MIT License (Valid open source OSI approved license)

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@ConnorStoneAstro I am taking over as editor. I will be looking for reviewers in the next week or so. Please let me know if you have suggestions for appropriate reviewers, here or via e-mail.

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Hi @ivastar that's great! There are many people who could give excellent reviews including: Simon Birrer, Andi Gu, Robert Morgan, James Nightingale, R. Benton Metcalf, Margarita Petkova, and Sebastian Wagner-Carena. They have all been involved in gravitational lensing software projects, and are cited in the paper.

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@rmorgan10, @swagnercarena would you be interested in reviewing this submission for JOSS?

The submission repository is at: https://github.com/Ciela-Institute/caustics You can see the full submission here: #6922 (this issue)

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I am happy to review the submission if you are still looking for reviewers.