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Simulating time-varying strong lenses

Vernardos, G.  
February 25, 2022
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society

We present a self-consistent and versatile forward modelling software package that can produce time series and pixel-level simulations of time-varying strongly lensed systems. The time dimension, which needs to take into account different physical mechanisms for variability such as microlensing, has been missing from existing approaches and it is of direct relevance to time delay, and consequently H-0, measurements and caustic crossing event predictions. Such experiments are becoming more streamlined, especially with the advent of time domain surveys, and understanding their systematic and statistical uncertainties in a model-aware and physics-driven way can help improve their accuracy and precision. Here, we demonstrate the software's capabilities by exploring the effect of measuring time delays from lensed quasars and supernovae in many wavelengths and under different microlensing and intrinsic variability assumptions. In this initial application, we find that the cadence of the observations and combining information from different wavelengths plays an important role in the correct recovery of the time delays. The mock lenses in time software package is available at https://github.com/gvernard/molet.

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Type
research article
DOI
10.1093/mnras/stac268
Web of Science ID

WOS:000760980800003

Author(s)
Vernardos, G.  
Date Issued

2022-02-25

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS

Published in
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society
Volume

511

Issue

3

Start page

4417

End page

4429

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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gravitational lensing: strong

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gravitational lensing: micro

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dark-matter substructure

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active galactic nuclei

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mass function

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quasars

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probe

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supernovae

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delays

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galaxy

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model

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event

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