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一种新的混合框架,有效地模拟引力透镜的视线

A New Hybrid Framework to Efficiently Model Lines of Sight to Gravitational Lenses

Curtis McCully, Charles R. Keeton, Kenneth C. Wong, Ann I. Zabludoff

摘要:

在强引力透镜系统中,光的弯曲通常由一个主星系主导,但可能会受到视线(LOS)上其他质量的影响。剪切和会聚可以用来近似不太重要的扰动(例如,那些远离透镜或具有小质量的扰动)的贡献,但对于更接近或更大质量的物体,需要包括高阶效应。我们开发了一个多平面透镜的框架,可以处理剪切和收敛处理的潮汐平面和精确处理的平面的任意组合(即,包括高阶项)。该框架解决了所有传统的透镜观测量,包括图像位置,通量和时间延迟,以促进透镜建模,包括由于沿LOS的质量的非线性效应。它平衡了精度(在必要时考虑高阶项)与效率(将所有其他LOS效应压缩到一组矩阵中,这些矩阵可以预先计算并缓存用于镜头建模)。我们确定了一个广义的多平面质量片简并,其中的有效剪切和收敛的总和在特定的,红移相关的权重因子的透镜平面。

英文摘要:

In strong gravitational lens systems, the light bending is usually dominated by one main galaxy, but may be affected by other mass along the line of sight (LOS). Shear and convergence can be used to approximate the contributions from less significant perturbers (e.g. those that are projected far from the lens or have a small mass), but higher order effects need to be included for objects that are closer or more massive. We develop a framework for multiplane lensing that can handle an arbitrary combination of tidal planes treated with shear and convergence and planes treated exactly (i.e., including higher order terms). This framework addresses all of the traditional lensing observables including image positions, fluxes, and time delays to facilitate lens modelling that includes the non-linear effects due to mass along the LOS. It balances accuracy (accounting for higher-order terms when necessary) with efficiency (compressing all other LOS effects into a set of matrices that can be calculated up front and cached for lens modelling). We identify a generalized multiplane mass sheet degeneracy, in which the effective shear and convergence are sums over the lensing planes with specific, redshift-dependent weighting factors.

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