Strong biases in infrared-selected gravitational lenses
Stephen Serjeant
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Note added in proof citing Hezaveh et al. (arXiv:1203.3267); other minor changes made to match page proofs. MNRAS in press. 14 pages, 13 figures. Figures slightly degraded from publication version for smaller file sizes and reliable printing
Bright submm-selected galaxies have been found to be a rich source of strong gravitational lenses. However, strong gravitational lensing of extended sources leads inevitably to differential magnification. In this paper I quantify the effect of differential magnification on simulated far-infrared and submm surveys of strong gravitational lenses, using a foreground population of Navarro-Frenk-White plus de Vaucouleurs' density profiles, with a model source resembling the Cosmic Eyelash and QSO J1148+5251. Some emission line diagnostics are surprisingly unaffected by differential magnification effects: for example, the bolometric fractions of [C II] 158um and CO(J=1-0), often used to infer densities and ionisation parameters, have typical differential magnification effects that are smaller than the measurement errors. However, the CO ladder itself is significantly affected. Far-infrared lensed galaxy surveys (e.g. at 60um) strongly select for high-redshift galaxies with caustics close to AGN, boosting the apparent bolometric contribution of AGN. The lens configuration of IRAS F10214+4724 is naturally explained in this context. Conversely, submm/mm-wave surveys (e.g. 500-1400um) strongly select for caustics close to knots of star formation boosting the latter's bolometric fraction. In general, estimates of bolometric fractions from spectral energy distributions of strongly lensed infrared galaxies are so unreliable as to be useless, unless a lens mass model is available to correct for differential magnification.
Probing modified gravity with galaxy-cluster-lensed gravitational-wave time delays: impact of systematic effects
Imperial College(帝国理工学院);Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, Sorbonne Université, CNRS(巴黎天文台,巴黎文理研究大学,索邦大学,法国国家科学研究中心);Alma Mater Studiorum Universita di Bologna(博洛尼亚大学);INAF - Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna(意大利国家天体物理研究所博洛尼亚天文与空间科学观测站);INFN - Sezione di Bologna(意大利国家核物理研究所博洛尼亚分部)
SEAGLE - I: A pipeline for simulating and modeling strong lenses from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations
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Spectroscopic redshifts of selected flat-spectrum radio sources I
Institute of Astrophysics, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas(希腊研究与技术基金会天体物理研究所);University of Crete(克里特大学);National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Astronomical Observatory of Padova(意大利国家天体物理研究所帕多瓦天文台)
Line-of-sight shear in SLACS strong lenses I: shear and mass model parametrisations
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge(剑桥大学天文学研究所);Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge(剑桥大学卡弗里宇宙学研究所);Clare Hall(克莱尔学院);Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, CNRS & Université de Montpellier(蒙彼利埃大学与法国国家科学研究中心宇宙与粒子物理实验室);Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago(芝加哥大学天文与天体物理系);Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago(芝加哥大学卡弗里宇宙物理学研究所);Center for Astronomy, Space Science and Astrophysics, Independent University, Bangladesh(孟加拉独立大学天文、空间科学与天体物理中心)
The STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) 2016 follow-up campaign. I. Overview and classification of candidates selected by two techniques
STRong Lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey(STRDES)合作的主要目标是测量暗能量状态方程参数和暗物质的自由流长度。为了实现这一目标,科学家们正在暗能量巡天的成像数据中发现强透镜类星体,并跟踪它们以测量时间延迟、高分辨率成像和足以构建精确透镜模型的光谱学。在本文中,我们首先提出了预测的CODEDES。然后,我们描述了CFDES分类方案,并概述了2016年秋季的后续活动。我们继续详细介绍两种选择方法,离群值选择技术和形态学算法的结果,并提出一个系统,这可能是一个透镜类星体在一个不寻常的配置透镜模型。我们以2016年秋季活动的汇总统计数据结束。包括在配套论文中提出的检索(Anguita等人; Ostrovski等人),天文学家追踪了117个目标,确定了7个新的强透镜系统和7个几乎相同的类星体(NIQ),这些类星体可以通过对透镜星系的探测来证实。76名候选人被拒绝,27名候选人仍然没有结果,成功率在6- 35%之间。这一速度与之前的搜索(如SQLS)相当,尽管RISTODES的父数据集纯粹是光度学的,我们对候选数据集的选择不能依赖于光谱信息。