The signature of substructure on gravitational lensing in the [and]CDM cosmological model /

We present a study of the lens properties of quadruply imaged systems, lensed by numerically simulated galaxies. We investigate a simulated elliptical and disc galaxy drawn from high resolution simulations of galaxy formation in a concordance [and]CDM universe. The simulations include the effects of...

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Main Authors: Bradač, Maruša. (Author), Schneider, Peter, 1958- (Author), Lombardi, Marco. (Author), Steinmetz, Matthias. (Author), Koopmans, Luitje Vincent Ewoud, 1973- (Author), Navarro, Julio F., 1962- (Author)
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Online dostop:http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20040168
Sorodne knjige/članki:Vsebovano v: Astronomy & astrophysics
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500 |a Soavtorji: P. Schneider, M. Lombardi, M. Steinmetz, L. V. E. Koopmans and J. F. Navarro.  
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520 |a We present a study of the lens properties of quadruply imaged systems, lensed by numerically simulated galaxies. We investigate a simulated elliptical and disc galaxy drawn from high resolution simulations of galaxy formation in a concordance [and]CDM universe. The simulations include the effects of gas dynamics, star formation and feedback processes. Flux-ratio anomalies observed in strong gravitational lensing potentially provide an indicator for the presence of mass substructure in lens galaxies as predicted from CDM simulations. We particularly concentrate on the prediction that, for an ideal cusp caustic, the sum of the signed magnifications of the three highly magnified images should vanish when the source approaches the cusp. Strong violation of this cusp relation indicates the presence of substructure, regardless of the global, smooth mass model of the lens galaxy. We draw the following conclusions: (1) the level of substructure present in simulations produces violations of the cusp relation comparable to those observed; (2) higher-order catastrophes (e.g. swallowtails) can also cause changes of the order of 0.6 in the cusp relation as predicted by a smooth model; (3) the flux anomaly distribution depends on the image parity and flux and both the brightest minimum and saddle-point images are more affected by substructure than the fainter images. In addition, the brightest saddle point is demagnified w.r.t. the brightest minimum. Our results are fully numerical and properly include all mass scales, without making semi-analytic assumptions. They are ultimately limited by the mass resolution of single particles in the simulation determined by current computational limits, however show that our results are not affected by shot-noise due to the finite number of particles. 
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653 0 |a physics  |a astrophysics  |a cosmology  |a dark matter  |a galaxies  |a gravitational lensing 
700 1 2 |a Bradač, Maruša.   |4 aut 
700 1 2 |a Schneider, Peter,   |d 1958-   |4 aut 
700 1 2 |a Lombardi, Marco.   |4 aut 
700 1 2 |a Steinmetz, Matthias.   |4 aut 
700 1 2 |a Koopmans, Luitje Vincent Ewoud,   |d 1973-   |4 aut 
700 1 2 |a Navarro, Julio F.,   |d 1962-   |4 aut 
773 0 |t Astronomy & astrophysics  |d Les Ulis : EDP Sciences, 1969-  |x 0004-6361  |g 423 (2004), str. 797-809 
856 4 1 |u http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20040168