Dr Qiuhan He qiuhan.he@durham.ac.uk
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Galaxy–galaxy strong lens perturbations: line-of-sight haloes versus lens subhaloes
He, Qiuhan; Li, Ran; Frenk, Carlos S; Nightingale, James; Cole, Shaun; Amorisco, Nicola C; Massey, Richard; Robertson, Andrew; Etherington, Amy; Amvrosiadis, Aristeidis; Cao, Xiaoyue
Authors
Ran Li
Professor Carlos Frenk c.s.frenk@durham.ac.uk
Professor
James Nightingale james.w.nightingale@durham.ac.uk
Academic Visitor
Professor Shaun Cole shaun.cole@durham.ac.uk
Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology
Nicola C Amorisco
Professor Richard Massey r.j.massey@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Andrew Robertson
Amy Etherington amy.etherington@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy
Aristeidis Amvrosiadis aristeidis.amvrosiadis@durham.ac.uk
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Xiaoyue Cao
Abstract
We rederive the number density of intervening line-of-sight haloes relative to lens subhaloes in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing observations, where these perturbers can generate detectable image fluctuations. Previous studies have calculated the detection limit of a line-of-sight small-mass dark halo by comparing the lensing deflection angles it would cause, to those caused by a subhalo within the lens. However, this overly simplifies the difference in observational consequences between a subhalo and a line-of-sight halo. Furthermore, it does not take into account degeneracies between an extra subhalo and the uncertain properties of the main lens. More in keeping with analyses of real-world observations, we regard a line-of-sight halo as detectable only if adding it to a smooth model generates a statistically significant improvement in the reconstructed image. We find that the number density of detectable line-of-sight perturbers has been overestimated by as much as a factor of two in the previous literature. For typical lensing geometries and configurations, very deep imaging is sensitive to twice as many line-of-sight perturbers as subhaloes, but moderate depth imaging is sensitive to only slightly more line-of-sight perturbers than subhaloes.
Citation
He, Q., Li, R., Frenk, C. S., Nightingale, J., Cole, S., Amorisco, N. C., …Cao, X. (2022). Galaxy–galaxy strong lens perturbations: line-of-sight haloes versus lens subhaloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512(4), 5862-5873. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac759
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Mar 11, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 21, 2022 |
Publication Date | 2022-06 |
Deposit Date | Jul 12, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 12, 2022 |
Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Print ISSN | 0035-8711 |
Electronic ISSN | 1365-2966 |
Publisher | Royal Astronomical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 512 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 5862-5873 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac759 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1198803 |
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