Strong lensing provides popular techniques to investigate the mass distribution of intermediate redshift galaxies, testing galaxy evolution and formation scenarios. It especially probes the background cosmic expansion, hence constraining cosmological parameters. The measurement of Einstein radii and central velocity dispersions indeed allows to trace the ratio D_s/D_ls between the distance D_s from the observer to the source and the distance D_ls from the lens to the source. We present an improved method to explicitly include the two-component structure in the galaxy lens modelling, in order to analyse the role played by the redshift and the model dependence on a nuisance parameter, F_E, which is usually marginalized in the cosmological applications. We show how to deal with these problems and carry on a Fisher matrix analysis to infer the accuracy on cosmological parameters achieved by this method.

Cosmological parameters from lenses distance ratio / Cardone, Vincenzo F.; Piedipalumbo, Ester; Scudellaro, Paolo. - In: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. - ISSN 0035-8711. - 455:(2016), pp. 831-837. [10.1093/mnras/stv2200]

Cosmological parameters from lenses distance ratio

PIEDIPALUMBO, ESTER;SCUDELLARO, PAOLO
2016

Abstract

Strong lensing provides popular techniques to investigate the mass distribution of intermediate redshift galaxies, testing galaxy evolution and formation scenarios. It especially probes the background cosmic expansion, hence constraining cosmological parameters. The measurement of Einstein radii and central velocity dispersions indeed allows to trace the ratio D_s/D_ls between the distance D_s from the observer to the source and the distance D_ls from the lens to the source. We present an improved method to explicitly include the two-component structure in the galaxy lens modelling, in order to analyse the role played by the redshift and the model dependence on a nuisance parameter, F_E, which is usually marginalized in the cosmological applications. We show how to deal with these problems and carry on a Fisher matrix analysis to infer the accuracy on cosmological parameters achieved by this method.
2016
Cosmological parameters from lenses distance ratio / Cardone, Vincenzo F.; Piedipalumbo, Ester; Scudellaro, Paolo. - In: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. - ISSN 0035-8711. - 455:(2016), pp. 831-837. [10.1093/mnras/stv2200]
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