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基于自适应网格的贝叶斯强引力透镜模型:Galerkin质量子结构的客观检测

Bayesian Strong Gravitational-Lens Modeling on Adaptive Grids: Objective Detection of Mass Substructure in Galaxies

S. Vegetti, L. V. E. Koopmans

摘要:

我们介绍了一种新的自适应和完全贝叶斯网格为基础的方法来模拟强引力透镜与扩展图像。该方法的主要目标是通过它们对高度放大的弧和爱因斯坦环的影响来量化大质量星系中亮质量和暗质量子结构的水平。该方法在源平面上是自适应的,其中Delaunay细分根据规则网格到源平面上的透镜映射来定义。贝叶斯罚函数允许我们恢复最佳的非线性势模型参数和/或基于网格的势校正,并客观地量化源和势的正则化水平。此外,我们还实现了嵌套采样技术来量化所有非线性质量模型参数的误差。--并允许根据边缘化证据对不同的潜在模型进行客观排名。特别是,我们感兴趣的是比较非常光滑的镜头质量模型与包含质量子结构。该算法已经过测试的范围内的模拟数据集,从一个现实的镜头系统的模型创建。其中一个透镜系统的特点是一个光滑的潜力与幂律密度分布,12个包括一个NFW暗物质子结构的不同质量和在不同的位置和一个包含两个NFW暗子结构具有相同的质量,但具有不同的位置。对所有这些系统的源和透镜势的重建表明,该方法能够在现实情况下识别质量大于等于10^7太阳质量的扰动。对于环内外的位置,质量至少需要10^9太阳质量(...)。

英文摘要:

We introduce a new adaptive and fully Bayesian grid-based method to model strong gravitational lenses with extended images. The primary goal of this method is to quantify the level of luminous and dark-mass substructure in massive galaxies, through their effect on highly-magnified arcs and Einstein rings. The method is adaptive on the source plane, where a Delaunay tessellation is defined according to the lens mapping of a regular grid onto the source plane. The Bayesian penalty function allows us to recover the best non-linear potential-model parameters and/or a grid-based potential correction and to objectively quantify the level of regularization for both the source and the potential. In addition, we implement a Nested-Sampling technique to quantify the errors on all non-linear mass model parameters -- ... -- and allow an objective ranking of different potential models in terms of the marginalized evidence. In particular, we are interested in comparing very smooth lens mass models with ones that contain mass-substructures. The algorithm has been tested on a range of simulated data sets, created from a model of a realistic lens system. One of the lens systems is characterized by a smooth potential with a power-law density profile, twelve include a NFW dark-matter substructure of different masses and at different positions and one contains two NFW dark substructures with the same mass but with different positions. Reconstruction of the source and of the lens potential for all of these systems shows the method is able, in a realistic scenario, to identify perturbations with masses >=10^7 solar mass when located on the Einstein ring. For positions both inside and outside of the ring, masses of at least 10^9 solar mass are required (...).

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