STRIDES: a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408-5354
Abstract
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.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547, USA
- 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
- DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Lyngbyvej 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P. O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
- Institute of Physics, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Observatoire de Sauverny, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland
- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
- STAR Institute, Quartier Agora - Allée du six Août, 19c B-4000 Liège, Belgium
- INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Salita Moiariello, 16, I-80131 Napoli, Italy; European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarschild-Str. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany
- Physics Department, UC Davis, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA
- Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P. O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA; Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- The Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Post bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India
- Departamento de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Andres Bello, Fernandez Concha 700, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
- Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rd, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK; Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
- Kavli IPMU (WPI), UTIAS, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
- Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile
- Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
- 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
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad, Kandi, Telangana 502285, India
- Excellence Cluster Origins, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany; Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 Munich, Germany
- Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- 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
- Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
- 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
- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Department of Astronomy/Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721-0065, USA
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
- 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
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Pevensey Building, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
- 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
- Department of Physics, Duke University Durham, NC 27708, USA
- 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
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
- Physics Department, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
- Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- 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 Org.:
- DES Collaboration
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1574968
- Alternate Identifier(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
Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711; oai:inspirehep.net:1759600; TRN: US2001370
- 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
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 494; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711
- Publisher:
- Royal Astronomical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; gravitational lensing: strong; cosmological parameters; distance scale; cosmology: observations
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Shajib, A. J., Birrer, S., Treu, T., Agnello, A., Buckley-Geer, E. J., Chan, J. H. H., Christensen, L., Lemon, C., Lin, H., Millon, M., Poh, J., Rusu, C. E., Sluse, D., Spiniello, C., Chen, G. C-F, Collett, T., Courbin, F., Fassnacht, C. D., Frieman, J., Galan, A., Gilman, D., More, A., Anguita, T., Auger, M. W., Bonvin, V., McMahon, R., Meylan, G., Wong, K. C., Abbott, T. M. C., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bechtol, K., Brooks, D., Brout, D., Burke, D. L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Evrard, A. E., Finley, D. A., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., García-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D. W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Huterer, D., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Li, T. S., Lima, M., MacCrann, N., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Miquel, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Sako, M., Sanchez, E., Santiago, B., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Scolnic, D., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Walker, A. R., and Zhang, Y. STRIDES: a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408-5354. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1093/mnras/staa828.
Shajib, A. J., Birrer, S., Treu, T., Agnello, A., Buckley-Geer, E. J., Chan, J. H. H., Christensen, L., Lemon, C., Lin, H., Millon, M., Poh, J., Rusu, C. E., Sluse, D., Spiniello, C., Chen, G. C-F, Collett, T., Courbin, F., Fassnacht, C. D., Frieman, J., Galan, A., Gilman, D., More, A., Anguita, T., Auger, M. W., Bonvin, V., McMahon, R., Meylan, G., Wong, K. C., Abbott, T. M. C., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bechtol, K., Brooks, D., Brout, D., Burke, D. L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Evrard, A. E., Finley, D. A., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., García-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D. W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Huterer, D., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Li, T. S., Lima, M., MacCrann, N., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Miquel, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Sako, M., Sanchez, E., Santiago, B., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Scolnic, D., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Walker, A. R., & Zhang, Y. STRIDES: a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408-5354. United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa828
Shajib, A. J., Birrer, S., Treu, T., Agnello, A., Buckley-Geer, E. J., Chan, J. H. H., Christensen, L., Lemon, C., Lin, H., Millon, M., Poh, J., Rusu, C. E., Sluse, D., Spiniello, C., Chen, G. C-F, Collett, T., Courbin, F., Fassnacht, C. D., Frieman, J., Galan, A., Gilman, D., More, A., Anguita, T., Auger, M. W., Bonvin, V., McMahon, R., Meylan, G., Wong, K. C., Abbott, T. M. C., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bechtol, K., Brooks, D., Brout, D., Burke, D. L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Evrard, A. E., Finley, D. A., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., García-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D. W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Huterer, D., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Li, T. S., Lima, M., MacCrann, N., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Miquel, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Sako, M., Sanchez, E., Santiago, B., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Scolnic, D., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Walker, A. R., and Zhang, Y. Sat .
"STRIDES: a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408-5354". United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa828. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1574968.
@article{osti_1574968,
title = {STRIDES: a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408-5354},
author = {Shajib, A. J. and Birrer, S. and Treu, T. and Agnello, A. and Buckley-Geer, E. J. and Chan, J. H. H. and Christensen, L. and Lemon, C. and Lin, H. and Millon, M. and Poh, J. and Rusu, C. E. and Sluse, D. and Spiniello, C. and Chen, G. C-F and Collett, T. and Courbin, F. and Fassnacht, C. D. and Frieman, J. and Galan, A. and Gilman, D. and More, A. and Anguita, T. and Auger, M. W. and Bonvin, V. and McMahon, R. and Meylan, G. and Wong, K. C. and Abbott, T. M. C. and Annis, J. and Avila, S. and Bechtol, K. and Brooks, D. and Brout, D. and Burke, D. L. and Carnero Rosell, A. and Carrasco Kind, M. and Carretero, J. and Castander, F. J. and Costanzi, M. and da Costa, L. N. and De Vicente, J. and Desai, S. and Dietrich, J. P. and Doel, P. and Drlica-Wagner, A. and Evrard, A. E. and Finley, D. A. and Flaugher, B. and Fosalba, P. and García-Bellido, J. and Gerdes, D. W. and Gruen, D. and Gruendl, R. A. and Gschwend, J. and Gutierrez, G. and Hollowood, D. L. and Honscheid, K. and Huterer, D. and James, D. J. and Jeltema, T. and Krause, E. and Kuropatkin, N. and Li, T. S. and Lima, M. and MacCrann, N. and Maia, M. A. G. and Marshall, J. L. and Melchior, P. and Miquel, R. and Ogando, R. L. C. and Palmese, A. and Paz-Chinchón, F. and Plazas, A. A. and Romer, A. K. and Roodman, A. and Sako, M. and Sanchez, E. and Santiago, B. and Scarpine, V. and Schubnell, M. and Scolnic, D. and Serrano, S. and Sevilla-Noarbe, I. and Smith, M. and Soares-Santos, M. and Suchyta, E. and Tarle, G. and Thomas, D. and Walker, A. R. and Zhang, Y.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1093/mnras/staa828},
journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
number = 4,
volume = 494,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {3}
}
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