J/MNRAS/474/3700    Gravitational lens candidates models     (Kung+, 2018)

Models of gravitational lens candidates from Space Warps CFHTLS. Kung R., Saha P., Ferreras I., Baeten E., Coles J., Cornen C., Macmillan C., Marshall P., More A., Oswald L., Verma A., Wilcox J.K. <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 474, 3700-3713 (2018)> =2018MNRAS.474.3700K 2018MNRAS.474.3700K (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Gravitational lensing ; Models Keywords: gravitational lensing: strong - galaxies: general - galaxies: stellar content - dark matter Abstract: We report modelling follow-up of recently discovered gravitational-lens candidates in the Canada France Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey. Lens modelling was done by a small group of specially interested volunteers from the Space Warps citizen-science community who originally found the candidate lenses. Models are categorized according to seven diagnostics indicating (a) the image morphology and how clear or indistinct it is, (b) whether the mass map and synthetic lensed image appear to be plausible, and (c) how the lens-model mass compares with the stellar mass and the abundance-matched halo mass. The lensing masses range from ∼1011 to >1013M{sun|. Preliminary estimates of the stellar masses show a smaller spread in stellar mass (except for two lenses): a factor of a few below or above ∼1011M. Therefore, we expect the stellar-to-total mass fraction to decline sharply as lensing mass increases. The most massive system with a convincing model is J1434+522 (SW 05). The two low-mass outliers are J0206-095 (SW 19) and J2217+015 (SW 42); if these two are indeed lenses, they probe an interesting regime of very low star formation efficiency. Some improvements to the modelling software (SpaghettiLens), and discussion of strategies regarding scaling to future surveys with more and frequent discoveries, are included. Description: We report on a first set of mass distributions and follow-up diagnostics for the Space Warps lens candidates created with a novel approach that aims to be scalable by orders of magnitude to prepare for the many thousands of lenses the next generation of wide-field surveys will yield (e.g. Euclid and WFIRST). Table 1 is a summary of our results. It characterizes each modelled system with seven diagnostics, indicating (a) the image morphology and how clear or indistinct it is, (b) whether the mass map and synthetic lensed image appear to be plausible, and (c) how the model mass compares with the estimated stellar and full-halo masses. Missing entries are due unavailable imaging data, whereas missing rows are due to models that were not created for this particular candidate. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 160 59 Diagnostics of the selected models for each Space Warps candidate (see Section 6) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 A4 --- SWID SW designation, SWNN, [MVM2016] SWNN in Simbad 6- 15 A10 --- ZooID Zoo designation 17- 32 A16 --- CFHTLS CFHTLS designation (JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS) 34- 37 F4.2 --- zlens ?=- Lens redshift 39 A1 --- Unbled [Y-N] Unblended image 41 A1 --- Alldis [Y-N] All images discernible 43 A1 --- Isolens [Y-N] Isolated lens 45- 46 A2 --- Mtype Image morphology (1) 48 A1 --- SyntI [Y-N] Synthetic image reasonable 50 A1 --- Mmap [Y-N] Mass map reasonable 52- 61 E10.5 [Msun] log10Mstel ? Stellar mass 63- 72 E10.5 [Msun] log10Mlens ? Lens mass 74- 78 F5.3 --- H ? Halo-matching index H 80- 89 E10.5 Msun Mstel ? Stellar mass 91-100 E10.5 Msun Mlens ? Lens mass 102-111 E10.5 Msun Mmoster ? Moster et al. (2010ApJ...710..903M 2010ApJ...710..903M) mass 113-122 E10.5 Msun Mstel-yr ? Stellar mass yr (not explained in the paper) 124-133 E10.5 Msun Mstel-sr ? Stellar mass sr (not explained in the paper) 135-144 E10.5 Msun Mlens-min ? Minimum lens mass 146-155 E10.5 Msun Mlens-max ? Maximum lens mass 157-160 F4.2 arcsec REins ? Einstein radius -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Image morphology code as follows: D = source at larger transverse distance tend to produce doubles Q = source close to being dead-centre behind a lens tend to produce quads LQ = source is inferred as displaced along the long axis of the lens SQ = displaced along the short axis IQ = inclined to both axes CQ = only very little or no displacement is evident -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From electronic version of the journal
(End) Patricia Vannier [CDS] 26-Feb-2021
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