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引力透镜Q0957 +561的改进约束I.弱引力透镜

Improved Constraints on the Gravitational Lens Q0957+561. I. Weak Lensing

R. Nakajima, G. M. Bernstein, R. Fadely, C. R. Keeton, T. Schrabback

摘要:

利用强引力透镜系统Q0957+561来限制哈勃常数的尝试受到质量模型中系统不确定性的限制,因为时间延迟是非常精确的。一个重要的系统效应是质量片简并,这是由于强透镜建模不能约束均匀质量片$κ$的存在或不存在而产生的,其通过因子$(1-κ)$重新缩放$H_0$。在本文中,我们提出了新的约束质量片来自弱透镜分析的哈勃空间望远镜成像的6弧分平方区域周围的透镜类星体。在圆孔(强透镜模型区域)内的平均质量片是通过积分周围区域的切向弱引力切变来约束的。我们发现在透镜星系周围的$30"$半径内的平均会聚是$κ(<30") = 0.166\pm0.056$($1σ$置信水平),归一化到类星体红移。这包括透镜星系和周围星系团的贡献。我们还限制了其他几个低阶项的透镜潜力,通过应用多极孔径质量形式主义的引力剪切环周围的强透镜区。强透镜模型和哈勃常数的含义将在随附的论文中讨论。

英文摘要:

Attempts to constrain the Hubble constant using the strong gravitational lens system Q0957+561 are limited by systematic uncertainties in the mass model, since the time delay is known very precisely. One important systematic effect is the mass sheet degeneracy, which arises because strong lens modeling cannot constrain the presence or absence of a uniform mass sheet $κ$, which rescales $H_0$ by the factor $(1-κ)$. In this paper we present new constraints on the mass sheet derived from a weak-lensing analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope imaging of a 6 arcmin square region surrounding the lensed quasar. The average mass sheet within a circular aperture (the strong lens model region) is constrained by integrating the tangential weak gravitational shear over the surrounding area. We find the average convergence within a $30"$ radius around the lens galaxy to be $κ(<30") = 0.166\pm0.056$ ($1σ$ confidence level), normalized to the quasar redshift. This includes contributions from both the lens galaxy and the surrounding cluster. We also constrain a few other low-order terms in the lens potential by applying a multipole aperture mass formalism to the gravitational shear in an annulus around the strong lensing region. Implications for strong lens models and the Hubble constant are discussed in an accompanying paper.

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