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引力透镜时间延迟的宇宙学约束

Cosmological Constraints from Gravitational Lens Time Delays

Dan Coe, Leonidas Moustakas

摘要:

未来的大合奏的时间延迟透镜有可能提供有趣的宇宙学约束的补充,其他方法。在一个包含普朗克先验的常数w的平坦宇宙中,约4,000个透镜的LSST时间延迟测量应该将局部哈勃常数h限制在约0.007(约1%),Omega_DE限制在约0.005,w限制在约0.026(所有1-sigma精度)。类似的限制可以通过一个专门的引力透镜天文台(欧米茄)获得,它将获得精确的时间延迟和质量模型测量约100个良好的研究透镜。我们比较这些约束(以及那些一般的宇宙学)的“乐观的第四阶段”的约束,预计从弱透镜,超新星,重子声学振荡,和集群计数,计算的暗能量工作组。时间延迟对随时间变化的w(z)产生适度的约束,其中对w(z)的最佳约束在z ~ 0.31的“枢轴红移”处。我们的Fisher矩阵计算提供,使时间延迟的约束,可以很容易地比较,并结合其他实验的约束。我们还展示了宇宙学约束力如何随透镜数量、透镜模型不确定性、时间延迟精度、红移精度以及四像透镜与二像透镜之比而变化。

英文摘要:

Future large ensembles of time delay lenses have the potential to provide interesting cosmological constraints complementary to those of other methods. In a flat universe with constant w including a Planck prior, LSST time delay measurements for ~4,000 lenses should constrain the local Hubble constant h to ~0.007 (~1%), Omega_DE to ~0.005, and w to ~0.026 (all 1-sigma precisions). Similar constraints could be obtained by a dedicated gravitational lens observatory (OMEGA) which would obtain precise time delay and mass model measurements for ~100 well-studied lenses. We compare these constraints (as well as those for a general cosmology) to the "optimistic Stage IV" constraints expected from weak lensing, supernovae, baryon acoustic oscillations, and cluster counts, as calculated by the Dark Energy Task Force. Time delays yield a modest constraint on a time-varying w(z), with the best constraint on w(z) at the "pivot redshift" of z ~ 0.31. Our Fisher matrix calculation is provided to allow time delay constraints to be easily compared to and combined with constraints from other experiments. We also show how cosmological constraining power varies as a function of numbers of lenses, lens model uncertainty, time delay precision, redshift precision, and the ratio of four-image to two-image lenses.

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