Herschel-ATLAS: modelling the first strong gravitational lenses

We have determined the mass density radial profiles of the first five strong gravitational lens systems discovered by the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey. We present an enhancement of the semilinear lens inversion method of Warren & Dye which allows simultaneous reconstruction...

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Main Authors: Dye, S., Negrello, M., Hopwood, R., Nightingale, J.W., Bussmann, R.S., Amber, S., Bourne, N., Cooray, A., Dariush, A., Dunne, L., Eales, S.A., González-Nuevo, J., Ibar, E., Ivison, R.J., Maddox, S., Valiante, E.
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author Dye, S.
Negrello, M.
Hopwood, R.
Nightingale, J.W.
Bussmann, R.S.
Amber, S.
Bourne, N.
Cooray, A.
Dariush, A.
Dunne, L.
Eales, S.A.
González-Nuevo, J.
Ibar, E.
Ivison, R.J.
Maddox, S.
Valiante, E.
author_facet Dye, S.
Negrello, M.
Hopwood, R.
Nightingale, J.W.
Bussmann, R.S.
Amber, S.
Bourne, N.
Cooray, A.
Dariush, A.
Dunne, L.
Eales, S.A.
González-Nuevo, J.
Ibar, E.
Ivison, R.J.
Maddox, S.
Valiante, E.
author_sort Dye, S.
building Nottingham Research Data Repository
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description We have determined the mass density radial profiles of the first five strong gravitational lens systems discovered by the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey. We present an enhancement of the semilinear lens inversion method of Warren & Dye which allows simultaneous reconstruction of several different wavebands and apply this to dual-band imaging of the lenses acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope. The five systems analysed here have lens redshifts which span a range 0.22 ≤ z ≤ 0.94. Our findings are consistent with other studies by concluding that: (1) the logarithmic slope of the total mass density profile steepens with decreasing redshift; (2) the slope is positively correlated with the average total projected mass density of the lens contained within half the effective radius and negatively correlated with the effective radius; (3) the fraction of dark matter contained within half the effective radius increases with increasing effective radius and increases with redshift.
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spelling nottingham-422762020-05-04T16:47:03Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42276/ Herschel-ATLAS: modelling the first strong gravitational lenses Dye, S. Negrello, M. Hopwood, R. Nightingale, J.W. Bussmann, R.S. Amber, S. Bourne, N. Cooray, A. Dariush, A. Dunne, L. Eales, S.A. González-Nuevo, J. Ibar, E. Ivison, R.J. Maddox, S. Valiante, E. We have determined the mass density radial profiles of the first five strong gravitational lens systems discovered by the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey. We present an enhancement of the semilinear lens inversion method of Warren & Dye which allows simultaneous reconstruction of several different wavebands and apply this to dual-band imaging of the lenses acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope. The five systems analysed here have lens redshifts which span a range 0.22 ≤ z ≤ 0.94. Our findings are consistent with other studies by concluding that: (1) the logarithmic slope of the total mass density profile steepens with decreasing redshift; (2) the slope is positively correlated with the average total projected mass density of the lens contained within half the effective radius and negatively correlated with the effective radius; (3) the fraction of dark matter contained within half the effective radius increases with increasing effective radius and increases with redshift. Oxford University Press 2014-04-04 Article PeerReviewed Dye, S., Negrello, M., Hopwood, R., Nightingale, J.W., Bussmann, R.S., Amber, S., Bourne, N., Cooray, A., Dariush, A., Dunne, L., Eales, S.A., González-Nuevo, J., Ibar, E., Ivison, R.J., Maddox, S. and Valiante, E. (2014) Herschel-ATLAS: modelling the first strong gravitational lenses. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 440 . pp. 2013-2025. ISSN 1365-2966 galaxies: evolution galaxies: structure https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/mnras/stu305 doi:10.1093/mnras/stu305 doi:10.1093/mnras/stu305
spellingShingle galaxies: evolution
galaxies: structure
Dye, S.
Negrello, M.
Hopwood, R.
Nightingale, J.W.
Bussmann, R.S.
Amber, S.
Bourne, N.
Cooray, A.
Dariush, A.
Dunne, L.
Eales, S.A.
González-Nuevo, J.
Ibar, E.
Ivison, R.J.
Maddox, S.
Valiante, E.
Herschel-ATLAS: modelling the first strong gravitational lenses
title Herschel-ATLAS: modelling the first strong gravitational lenses
title_full Herschel-ATLAS: modelling the first strong gravitational lenses
title_fullStr Herschel-ATLAS: modelling the first strong gravitational lenses
title_full_unstemmed Herschel-ATLAS: modelling the first strong gravitational lenses
title_short Herschel-ATLAS: modelling the first strong gravitational lenses
title_sort herschel-atlas: modelling the first strong gravitational lenses
topic galaxies: evolution
galaxies: structure
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42276/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42276/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42276/