A versatile tool for cluster lensing source reconstruction. I.
  methodology and illustration on sources in the Hubble Frontier Field Cluster
  MACS J0717.5+3745
  We describe a general purpose method to reconstruct the intrinsic properties
of sources lensed by the gravitational potential of foreground clusters of
galaxies. The tool Lenstruction is implemented in the publicly available
multi-purpose gravitational lensing software Lenstronomy, in order to provide
an easy and fast solution to this common astrophysical problem. The tool is
based on forward modeling the appearance of the source in the image plane,
taking into account the distortion by lensing and the instrumental point spread
function (PSF). For singly-imaged sources a global lens model in the format of
the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) lensing maps is required as a starting point.
For multiply-imaged sources, the tool can also fit and apply first
(deflection), second (shear, convergence), and third order (flexion)
corrections to the local gravitational potential to improve the reconstruction,
depending on the quality of the data. We illustrate the performance and
features of the code with two examples of multiply-imaged systems taken from
the Hubble Frontier Fields, starting from five different publicly available
cluster models. We find that, after our correction, the relative magnification
- and other lensing properties - between the multiple images become robustly
constrained. Furthermore, we find that scatter between models of the
reconstructed source size and magnitude is reduced. The code and jupyter
notebooks are publicly available.
