Improved time-delay lens modelling and H 0 inference with transient sources
Abstract
ABSTRACT Strongly lensed explosive transients such as supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, fast radio bursts, and gravitational waves are very promising tools to determine the Hubble constant (H0) in the near future in addition to strongly lensed quasars. In this work, we show that the transient nature of the point source provides an advantage over quasars: The lensed host galaxy can be observed before or after the transient’s appearance. Therefore, the lens model can be derived from images free of contamination from bright point sources. We quantify this advantage by comparing the precision of a lens model obtained from the same lenses with and without point sources. Based on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) observations with the same sets of lensing parameters, we simulate realistic mock data sets of 48 quasar lensing systems (i.e. adding AGN in the galaxy centre) and 48 galaxy–galaxy lensing systems (assuming the transient source is not visible but the time delay and image positions have been or will be measured). We then model the images and compare the inferences of the lens model parameters and H0. We find that the precision of the lens models (in terms of the deflector mass slope) ismore »
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- Kavli IPMU (WPI), UTIAS, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547, USA
- School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 606374, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547, USA
- School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- USDOE
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- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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- Journal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal Volume: 504 Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711
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- Oxford University Press
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- United Kingdom
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- English
Citation Formats
Ding, Xuheng, Liao, Kai, Birrer, Simon, Shajib, Anowar J., Treu, Tommaso, and Yang, Lilan. Improved time-delay lens modelling and H 0 inference with transient sources. United Kingdom: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1093/mnras/stab1240.
Ding, Xuheng, Liao, Kai, Birrer, Simon, Shajib, Anowar J., Treu, Tommaso, & Yang, Lilan. Improved time-delay lens modelling and H 0 inference with transient sources. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1240
Ding, Xuheng, Liao, Kai, Birrer, Simon, Shajib, Anowar J., Treu, Tommaso, and Yang, Lilan. Tue .
"Improved time-delay lens modelling and H 0 inference with transient sources". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1240.
@article{osti_1784394,
title = {Improved time-delay lens modelling and H 0 inference with transient sources},
author = {Ding, Xuheng and Liao, Kai and Birrer, Simon and Shajib, Anowar J. and Treu, Tommaso and Yang, Lilan},
abstractNote = {ABSTRACT Strongly lensed explosive transients such as supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, fast radio bursts, and gravitational waves are very promising tools to determine the Hubble constant (H0) in the near future in addition to strongly lensed quasars. In this work, we show that the transient nature of the point source provides an advantage over quasars: The lensed host galaxy can be observed before or after the transient’s appearance. Therefore, the lens model can be derived from images free of contamination from bright point sources. We quantify this advantage by comparing the precision of a lens model obtained from the same lenses with and without point sources. Based on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) observations with the same sets of lensing parameters, we simulate realistic mock data sets of 48 quasar lensing systems (i.e. adding AGN in the galaxy centre) and 48 galaxy–galaxy lensing systems (assuming the transient source is not visible but the time delay and image positions have been or will be measured). We then model the images and compare the inferences of the lens model parameters and H0. We find that the precision of the lens models (in terms of the deflector mass slope) is better by a factor of 4.1 for the sample without lensed point sources, resulting in an increase of H0 precision by a factor of 2.9. The opportunity to observe the lens systems without the transient point sources provides an additional advantage for time-delay cosmography over lensed quasars. It facilitates the determination of higher signal-to-noise stellar kinematics of the main deflector, and thus its mass density profile, which, in turn plays a key role in breaking the mass-sheet degeneracy and constraining H0.},
doi = {10.1093/mnras/stab1240},
journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
number = 4,
volume = 504,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Tue May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Tue May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1240
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