- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/690/670
- Title:
- The Sloan lens ACS Survey. VIII.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/690/670
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the relation between the internal structure of early-type galaxies and their environment using 70 strong gravitational lenses from the SLACS Survey. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) database is used to determine two measures of overdensity of galaxies around each lens - the projected number density of galaxies inside the tenth nearest neighbor ({Sigma}_10_) and within a cone of radius 1h^-1^Mpc (D1).
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/488/481
- Title:
- Time delays and H0 from WFI J2033-4723
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/488/481
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Gravitationally lensed quasars can be used to map the mass distribution in lensing galaxies and to estimate the Hubble constant H0 by measuring the time delays between the quasar images. Here we report the measurement of two independent time delays in the quadruply imaged quasar WFI J2033-4723 (z=1.66). Our data consist of R-band images obtained with the Swiss 1.2m EULER telescope located at La Silla and with the 1.3m SMARTS telescope located at Cerro Tololo. The light curves have 218 independent epochs spanning 3 full years of monitoring between March 2004 and May 2007, with a mean temporal sampling of one observation every 4th day. We measure the time delays using three different techniques, and we obtain Dt(B-A)=35.5+/-1.4days (3.8%) and Dt(B-C)=62.6^+4.1^_-2.3_days (^+6.5%^_-3.7%_), where A is a composite of the close, merging image pair. After correcting for the time delays, we find R-band flux ratios of FA/FB=2.88+/-0.04, FA/FC=3.38+/-0.06, and FA1/FA2=1.37+/-0.05 with no evidence for microlensing variability over a time scale of three years. However, these flux ratios do not agree with those measured in the quasar emission lines, suggesting that longer term microlensing is present. Our estimate of H0 agrees with the concordance value: non-parametric modeling of the lensing galaxy predicts H0=67^+13^_-10_km/s/Mpc, while the Single Isothermal Sphere model yields H0=63^+7^_-3_km/s/Mpc (68% confidence level). More complex lens models using a composite de Vaucouleurs plus NFW galaxy mass profile show twisting of the mass isocontours in the lensing galaxy, as do the non-parametric models. As all models also require a significant external shear, this suggests that the lens is a member of the group of galaxies seen in field of view of WFI J2033-4723.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/656/A99
- Title:
- Tomography with Magnification Bias
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/656/A99
- Date:
- 21 Mar 2022 07:10:35
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- High-z submillimetre galaxies can be used as a background sample for gravitational lensing studies thanks to their magnification bias. In particular, the magnification bias can be exploited in order to constrain the free parameters of a halo occupation distribution (HOD) model and some of the main cosmological parameters. A pseudo-tomographic analysis shows that the tomographic approach should improve the parameter estimation. In this work the magnification bias has been evaluated as cosmological tool in a tomographic set up. The cross-correlation function (CCF) data have been used to jointly constrain the astrophysical parameters M_min_, M_1_ and {alpha} in each one of the selected redshift bins, as well as the cosmological parameter {Omega}_M_, {sigma}_8_ and H_0_ for the lambda cold dark matter ({Lambda}CMD). Moreover, we explore the possible time evolution of the dark energy density introducing the {omaga}_0_ and {omage}_a_ parameters in the joint analysis ({omega}_0_CDM and {omega}_0_{omega}_a_CDM). The CCF was measured between a foreground spectroscopic sample of Galaxy And Mass Assembly galaxies and a background sample of Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) galaxies. The foreground sample was divided into four redshift bins (0.1-0.2, 0.2-0.3, 0.3-0.5, and 0.5-0.8) and the sample of H-ATLAS galaxies has photometric redshifts >1.2. The CCF was modelled using a halo model description that depends on HOD and cosmological parameters. Then a Markov chain Monte Carlo method was used to estimate the parameters for different cases. For the {Lambda}CDM model the analysis yields a maximum posterior value at 0.26 with [0.17, 0.41] 68% C.I. for {Omega}_M_ and at 0.87 with [0.75, 1] 68% C.I. for {sigma}_8_. With our current results H_0_ is not yet constrained. With a more general {omega}_0_CDM model, the constraints on {Omega}_M_ and {sigma}_8_ are similar, but we found a maximum posterior value for {omega}_0_ at -1 with [-1.56, -0.47] 68% C.I. In the {omega}_0_{omega}_a_CDM model, the results are -1.09 with [-1.72, -0.66] 68% C.I. for {omega}_0_ and -0.19 with [-1.88, 1.48] 68% C.I. for {omega}_a_. The results on Mmin show a trend towards higher values at higher redshift confirming recent findings. The tomographic analysis presented in this work improves the constraints in the {sigma}_8_-{Omega}_M_ plane with respect to previous findings exploiting the magnification bias and it confirms that magnification bias results do not show the degeneracy found with cosmic shear measurements. Moreover, related to dark energy, we found a trend of higher {omega}_0_ values for lower H_0_ values.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/455/L1
- Title:
- Variability of 5 gravitationally lensed QSOs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/455/L1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have searched for microlensing variability in the light curves of five gravitationally lensed quasars with well-determined time delays: SBS 1520+530, FBQ 0951+2635, RX J0911+0551, B1600+434 and HE 2149-2745. By comparing the light curve of the leading image with a suitably time offset light curve of a trailing image we find that two (SBS 1520+530 and FBQ 0951+2635) out of the five quasars have significant long-term (~ years) and short-term (~100-days) brightness variations that may be attributed to microlensing. The short-term variations may be due to nanolenses 10^-4^-10^-3^M_{sun}_, relativistic hot or cold spots in the quasar accretion disks, or coherent microlensing at large optical depth.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/110/1141
- Title:
- Variables in the Sagittarius dSph
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/110/1141
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present time-series CCD photometry of a field in the newly discovered dwarf spheroidal galaxy in Sagittarius (hereafter Sgr), and of a nearby control field. These data, which consist of VI images obtained during the 1994 OGLE season, were used to identify and study variable stars in both fields. We discovered ten variable stars in the Sgr field, nine of which have light curves and periods consistent with RR Lyr stars or anomalous Cepheids. The control field contains four short-period contact eclipsing binaries, but no pulsating variables. The variables in the Sgr field include a bright RR Lyr star that is almost certainly located in front of Sgr in the galactic bulge, a short-period contact binary located near or within Sgr, and a short-period pulsating star that may either be a foreground halo RR Lyr star or an anomalous Cepheid within Sgr. The seven remaining variables in the Sgr field are RR Lyr stars with very similar mean apparent magnitudes; we conclude that they are members of Sgr. We estimate the total number of RR Lyr stars in Sgr to be 1930+/-730 if M(V,Sgr)=-13, or 310+/-120 if M(V,Sgr)=-11. The frequency of pulsating variables in Sgr is consistent with earlier conclusions that the galaxy consists of a predominant old (age>~10Gyr) population.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/810/L20
- Title:
- VISTA KS photometry of EWS 2012-BLG-548
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/810/L20
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of a large timescale candidate microlensing event of a bulge stellar source based on near-infrared observations with the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea Survey (VVV). The new microlensing event is projected only 3.5 arcmin away from the center of the globular cluster NGC 6553. The source appears to be a bulge giant star with magnitude K_s_=13.52, based on the position in the color-magnitude diagram. The foreground lens may be located in the globular cluster, which has well-known parameters such as distance and proper motions. If the lens is a cluster member, we can directly estimate its mass simply following Paczynski which is a modified version of the more general case due to Refsdal. In that case, the lens would be a massive stellar remnant, with M=1.5-3.5M_{sun}_. If the blending fraction of the microlensing event appears to be small, and this lens would represent a good isolated black hole (BH) candidate, that would be the oldest BH known. Alternative explanations (with a larger blending fraction) also point to a massive stellar remnant if the lens is located in the Galactic disk and does not belong to the globular cluster.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/822/78
- Title:
- VLT/MUSE spectroscopic obs. of MACS J1149.5+2223
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/822/78
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) observations in the core of the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) galaxy cluster MACSJ1149.5+2223, where the first magnified and spatially resolved multiple images of supernova (SN) "Refsdal" at redshift 1.489 were detected. Thanks to a Director's Discretionary Time program with the Very Large Telescope and the extraordinary efficiency of MUSE, we measure 117 secure redshifts with just 4.8hr of total integration time on a single 1arcmin^2^ target pointing. We spectroscopically confirm 68 galaxy cluster members, with redshift values ranging from 0.5272 to 0.5660, and 18 multiple images belonging to seven background, lensed sources distributed in redshifts between 1.240 and 3.703. Starting from the combination of our catalog with those obtained from extensive spectroscopic and photometric campaigns using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), we select a sample of 300 (164 spectroscopic and 136 photometric) cluster members, within approximately 500kpc from the brightest cluster galaxy, and a set of 88 reliable multiple images associated with 10 different background source galaxies and 18 distinct knots in the spiral galaxy hosting SN "Refsdal". We exploit this valuable information to build six detailed strong-lensing models, the best of which reproduces the observed positions of the multiple images with an rms offset of only 0.26". We use these models to quantify the statistical and systematic errors on the predicted values of magnification and time delay of the next emerging image of SN "Refsdal". We find that its peak luminosity should occur between 2016 March and June and should be approximately 20% fainter than the dimmest (S4) of the previously detected images but above the detection limit of the planned HST/WFC3 follow-up. We present our two-dimensional reconstruction of the cluster mass density distribution and of the SN "Refsdal" host galaxy surface brightness distribution. We outline the road map toward even better strong-lensing models with a synergetic MUSE and HST effort.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/528/A42
- Title:
- VRi light curves of the lensed QSO HE 0435-1223
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/528/A42
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present VRi photometric observations of the quadruply imaged quasar HE0435-1223, carried out with the Danish 1.54m telescope at the La Silla Observatory. Our aim was to monitor and study the magnitudes and colors of each lensed component as a function of time.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/420/447
- Title:
- VRI photometry of lensed quasar QSO B2237+0305
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/420/447
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Spatially resolved CCD photometry of the Q2237+0305 gravitationally lensed quasar in V, R and I spectral bands from observations with the Maidanak 1.5-m telescope made in 1995-2000 is presented. For each of the four quasar components, - A, B, C and D, - stellar magnitudes for 78 dates in R filter, and for 17 dates in V and I and shown in Tables 4-6. The color indices V-R and V-I for 17 dates during 1995-2000 are also presented (Table 7), which permitted to analyse a behavior of colors of the lensed quasar images in microlensing, and to discover a significant correlation between the color changes and magnitude changes in the sense, that the components tend to become bluer as their brightness increases.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/54
- Title:
- VRI photometry of MOA 2009-BLG-319
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/161/54
- Date:
- 10 Dec 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an adaptive optics (AO) analysis of images from the KeckII telescope NIRC2 instrument of the planetary microlensing event MOA-2009-BLG-319. The ~10yr baseline between the event and the Keck observations allows the planetary host star to be detected at a separation of 66.5{+/-}1.7mas from the source star, consistent with the light-curve model prediction. The combination of the host star brightness and light-curve parameters yields host star and planet masses of M_host_=0.524{+/-}0.048M{sun} and m_p_=67.3{+/-}6.2M{Earth} at a distance of DL=7.1{+/-}0.7kpc. The star-planet projected separation is 2.03{+/-}0.21au. The planet-to-star mass ratio of this system, q=(3.857{+/-}0.029)x10^-4^, places it in the predicted "planet desert" at 10^-4^<q<4x10^-4^ according to the runaway gas accretion scenario of the core accretion theory. Seven of the 30 planets in the Suzuki et al. sample fall in this mass ratio range, and this is the third with a measured host mass. All three of these host stars have masses of 0.5<~M_host_/M{sun}<~0.7, which implies that this predicted mass ratio gap is filled with planets that have host stars within a factor of two of 1M{sun}. This suggests that runaway gas accretion does not play a major role in determining giant planet masses for stars somewhat less massive than the Sun. Our analysis has been accomplished with a modified DAOPHOT code that has been designed to measure the brightness and positions of closely blended stars. This will aid in the development of the primary method that the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission will use to determine the masses of microlens planets and their hosts.
