A direct measurement of the high-mass end of the velocity dispersion function at z ~ 0.55 from SDSS-III/BOSS

Montero-Dorta, Antonio D.; Bolton, Adam S.; Shu, Yiping

doi:10.1093/mnras/stx321

Title: A direct measurement of the high-mass end of the velocity dispersion function at z ~ 0.55 from SDSS-III/BOSS

Journal Article · Fri Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx321· OSTI ID:1419944

Montero-Dorta, Antonio D. ^[1]; Bolton, Adam S. ^[2]; Shu, Yiping ^[3]

The Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
The Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States); National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), Tucson, AZ (United States)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)

When two galaxies that are distant from one another (and also distant from Earth) happen to lie along a single line of sight in the sky, the resulting phenomenon is known as a “gravitational lens.” The gravity of the more nearby galaxy warps the image of the more distant galaxy into multiple images or complete rings (know as “Einstein rings” since the quantitative description of the gravitational lensing effect relies on Einstein’s theory of gravity.) Strong gravitational lens systems have multiple scientific applications. If the more distant galaxy happens to contain a time-varying quasar (bright emission powered by a supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s center) or supernova explosion, the time delay between multiple images can be used as a probe of the expansion rate of the universe (and other cosmological parameters.) Forecasting the incidence of gravitational lenses in future large-scale sky surveys relies on quantifying the population of potential lens galaxies in the universe in terms of their abundance and their lensing efficiency. The lensing efficiency is most directly correlated with the galaxy’s “velocity dispersion:” the characteristic speed with which stars in the galaxy are orbiting under the influence of the galaxy’s overall gravitational field. This paper uses previous results quantifying the combined demographics of galaxies in brightness and velocity dispersion to compute the demographics of massive “elliptical” galaxies in velocity dispersion alone, thereby providing the essential ingredient for forecasting the expected incidence of strong gravitational lensing by these types of galaxies in future sky surveys such as DESI and LSST. These results are also applicable to the association of massive galaxies with their associated dark-matter “halos,” which is an essential ingredient for the most accurate and informative extraction of cosmological parameters from the data sets produced by large-scale surveys of the universe.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

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OSTI ID:: 1419944

Journal Information:: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 468, Issue 1; ISSN 0035-8711

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