STRIDES: a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408-5354

Journal Article · Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa828· OSTI ID:1574968

Shajib, A. J.  ^[1]; Birrer, S. ^[2]; Treu, T. ^[1]; Agnello, A. ^[3]; Buckley-Geer, E. J. ^[4]; Chan, J. H. H.  ^[5]; Christensen, L. ^[3]; Lemon, C.  ^[5]; Lin, H. ^[4]; Millon, M. ^[5]; Poh, J. ^[6]; Rusu, C. E.  ^[7]; Sluse, D. ^[8]; Spiniello, C.  ^[9]; Chen, G. C-F  ^[10]; Collett, T.  ^[11]; Courbin, F. ^[5]; Fassnacht, C. D. ^[10]; Frieman, J. ^[12]; Galan, A. ^[5] ; Gilman, D. ^[1]; More, A.  ^[13]; Anguita, T.  ^[14]; Auger, M. W. ^[15]; Bonvin, V. ^[5]; McMahon, R. ^[15]; Meylan, G. ^[5]; Wong, K. C.  ^[16]; Abbott, T. M. C. ^[17]; Annis, J. ^[4]; Avila, S.  ^[18]; Bechtol, K. ^[19]; Brooks, D. ^[20]; Brout, D. ^[21]; Burke, D. L. ^[22]; Carnero Rosell, A.  ^[23]; Carrasco Kind, M.  ^[24]; Carretero, J. ^[25]; Castander, F. J. ^[26]; Costanzi, M. ^[27]; da Costa, L. N. ^[28]; De Vicente, J.  ^[29]; Desai, S. ^[30]; Dietrich, J. P. ^[31]; Doel, P. ^[20]; Drlica-Wagner, A. ^[12]; Evrard, A. E.  ^[32]; Finley, D. A. ^[4]; Flaugher, B. ^[4]; Fosalba, P. ^[26]; García-Bellido, J. ^[18]; Gerdes, D. W. ^[32]; Gruen, D.  ^[33]; Gruendl, R. A. ^[24]; Gschwend, J. ^[28]; Gutierrez, G. ^[4]; Hollowood, D. L. ^[34]; Honscheid, K. ^[35]; Huterer, D. ^[36]; James, D. J. ^[37]; Jeltema, T. ^[34]; Krause, E. ^[38]; Kuropatkin, N. ^[4]; Li, T. S.  ^[39]; Lima, M. ^[40]; MacCrann, N.  ^[35]; Maia, M. A. G. ^[28]; Marshall, J. L. ^[41]; Melchior, P.  ^[42]; Miquel, R. ^[43]; Ogando, R. L. C. ^[28]; Palmese, A.  ^[4]; Paz-Chinchón, F. ^[24]; Plazas, A. A.  ^[42]; Romer, A. K. ^[44]; Roodman, A. ^[22]; Sako, M. ^[21]; Sanchez, E. ^[29]; Santiago, B. ^[45]; Scarpine, V. ^[4]; Schubnell, M. ^[36]; Scolnic, D. ^[46]; Serrano, S. ^[47]; Sevilla-Noarbe, I. ^[29]; Smith, M.  ^[48]; Soares-Santos, M.  ^[49]; Suchyta, E.  ^[50]; Tarle, G. ^[36]; Thomas, D.  ^[11]; Walker, A. R. ^[17]; Zhang, Y. ^[4]

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1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547, USA
2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547, USA; Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
3. DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Lyngbyvej 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
4. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P. O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
5. Institute of Physics, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Observatoire de Sauverny, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland
6. Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
7. National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
8. STAR Institute, Quartier Agora - Allée du six Août, 19c B-4000 Liège, Belgium
9. INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Salita Moiariello, 16, I-80131 Napoli, Italy; European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarschild-Str. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany
10. Physics Department, UC Davis, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA
11. Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK
12. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P. O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA; Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
13. The Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Post bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India
14. Departamento de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Andres Bello, Fernandez Concha 700, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
15. Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rd, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK; Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
16. Kavli IPMU (WPI), UTIAS, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
17. Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile
18. Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
19. LSST, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA; Physics Department, 2320 Chamberlin Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1150 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706-1390, USA
20. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
21. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
22. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, P. O. Box 2450, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
23. Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain; Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil
24. Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 West Clark St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
25. Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
26. Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), E-08034 Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC), Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
27. INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, via G. B. Tiepolo 11, I-34143 Trieste, Italy; Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe, Via Beirut 2, I-34014 Trieste, Italy
28. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil; Observatório Nacional, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil
29. Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
30. Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad, Kandi, Telangana 502285, India
31. Excellence Cluster Origins, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany; Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 Munich, Germany
32. Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
33. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, P. O. Box 2450, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA; Department of Physics, Stanford University, 382 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
34. Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
35. Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
36. Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
37. Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
38. Department of Astronomy/Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721-0065, USA
39. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P. O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA; Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA; Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 813 Santa Barbara St., Pasadena, CA 91101, USA
40. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil; Departamento de Física Matemática, Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, São Paulo, SP 05314-970, Brazil
41. George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
42. Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
43. Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, E-08010 Barcelona, Spain
44. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Pevensey Building, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
45. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil; Instituto de Física, UFRGS, Caixa Postal 15051, Porto Alegre, RS - 91501-970, Brazil
46. Department of Physics, Duke University Durham, NC 27708, USA
47. Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC), Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain; Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), E-08034 Barcelona, Spain
48. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
49. Physics Department, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
50. Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA

We present a blind time-delay cosmographic analysis for the lens system DES J0408-5354. This system is extraordinary for the presence of two sets of multiple images at different redshifts, which provide the opportunity to obtain more information at the cost of increased modelling complexity with respect to previously analysed systems. We perform detailed modelling of the mass distribution for this lens system using three band Hubble Space Telescope imaging. We combine the measured time delays, line-of-sight central velocity dispersion of the deflector, and statistically constrained external convergence with our lens models to estimate two cosmological distances. We measure the ‘effective’ time-delay distance corresponding to the redshifts of the deflector and the lensed quasar $$D_{\Delta t}^{\rm eff}=$$$$3382_{-115}^{+146}$$ Mpc and the angular diameter distance to the deflector Dd = $$1711_{-280}^{+376}$$ Mpc, with covariance between the two distances. From these constraints on the cosmological distances, we infer the Hubble constant H0= $$74.2_{-3.0}^{+2.7}$$ km s-1 Mpc-1 assuming a flat ΛCDM cosmology and a uniform prior for Ωm as $$\Omega _{\rm m} \sim \mathcal {U}(0.05, 0.5)$$. This measurement gives the most precise constraint on H0 to date from a single lens. Our measurement is consistent with that obtained from the previous sample of six lenses analysed by the H0 Lenses in COSMOGRAIL’s Wellspring (H0LiCOW) collaboration. It is also consistent with measurements of H0 based on the local distance ladder, reinforcing the tension with the inference from early Universe probes, for example, with 2.2σ discrepancy from the cosmic microwave background measurement.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
• Contributing Organization: DES Collaboration
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359; SC0007859; SC0019193; AC05-00OR22725; AC02-76SF00515; HST-GO-15320; AST-1714953; AST-1906976; AST-1715611; ACI-1548562; ACI-1445606; PHY-1607611; AST-1138766; AST-1536171; 787866; 664931; AYA2015-71825; ESP2015-66861; FPA2015-68048; SEV-2016-0588; SEV-2016-0597; MDM-2015-0509; 240672; 291329; 306478
• OSTI ID: 1574968
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1638052; OSTI ID: 1646600; OSTI ID: 1659591; OSTI ID: 1697972; OSTI ID: 1784944
• Report Number(s): arXiv:1910.06306; FERMILAB-PUB-19-523-AE-SCD; DES-2019-0475; oai:inspirehep.net:1759600; TRN: US2001370
• Journal Information: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 494, Issue 4; ISSN 0035-8711
• Publisher: Royal Astronomical Society
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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