- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/249/16
- Title:
- Microlensing event in the OGLE-IV GVS survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/249/16
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Searches for gravitational microlensing events are traditionally concentrated on the central regions of the Galactic bulge but many microlensing events are expected to occur in the Galactic plane, far from the Galactic Center. Owing to the difficulty in conducting high-cadence observations of the Galactic plane over its vast area, which are necessary for the detection of microlensing events, their global properties were hitherto unknown. Here, we present results of the first comprehensive search for microlensing events in the Galactic plane. We searched an area of almost 3000 square degrees along the Galactic plane (|b|<7{deg}, 0{deg}<l<50{deg}, 190{deg}<l<360{deg}) observed by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) during 2013-2019 and detected 630 events. We demonstrate that the mean Einstein timescales of Galactic plane microlensing events are on average three times longer than those of Galactic bulge events, with little dependence on the Galactic longitude. We also measure the microlensing optical depth and event rate as a function of Galactic longitude and demonstrate that they exponentially decrease with the angular distance from the Galactic Center (with the characteristic angular scale length of 32{deg}). The average optical depth decreases from 0.5x10^-6^ at l=10{deg} to 1.5x10^-8^ in the Galactic anticenter. We also find that the optical depth in the longitude range 240{deg}<l<330{deg} is asymmetric about the Galactic equator, which we interpret as a signature of the Galactic warp.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/778/150
- Title:
- Microlensing events toward the Bulge from MOA-II
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/778/150
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present measurements of the microlensing optical depth and event rate toward the Galactic Bulge (GB) based on two years of the MOA-II survey. This sample contains ~1000 microlensing events, with an Einstein radius crossing time of t_E_<=200 days in 22 bulge fields covering ~42deg^2^ between -5{deg}<l<10{deg} and -7{deg}<b<-1{deg}. Our event rate and optical depth analysis uses 474 events with well-defined microlensing parameters. In the central fields with |l|<5{deg}, we find an event rate of {Gamma}=[2.39+/-1.1]e^[0.60+/-0.05](3-|b|)^x10^-5^/star/yr and an optical depth (for events with t_E_<=200days) of {tau}_200_=[2.35+/-0.18]e^[0.51+/-0.07](3-|b|)^x10^-6^ for the 427 events, using all sources brighter than I_s_<=20mag. The distribution of observed fields is centered at (l,b)=(0.{deg}38, -3.{deg}72). We find that the event rate is maximized at low latitudes and a longitude of l{approx}1{deg}. For the 111 events in 3.2deg^2^ of the central GB at |b|<=3.{deg}0 and 0.{deg}0<=l<=2.{deg}0, centered at (l,b)=(0.{deg}97, -2.{deg}26), we find {Gamma}=4.57_-0.46_^+0.51^x10^-5^/star/yr and {tau}_200_=3.64_-0.45_^+0.51^x10^-6^. We also consider a red clump giant (RCG) star sample with I_s_<17.5, and we find that the event rate for the RCG sample is slightly lower than but consistent with the all-source event rate. The main difference is the lack of long duration events in the RCG sample due to a known selection effect. Our results are consistent with previous optical depth measurements, but they are somewhat lower than previous all-source measurements, and slightly higher than previous RCG optical depth measurements. This suggests that the previously observed difference in optical depth measurements between all-source and RCG samples may largely be due to statistical fluctuations. These event rate measurements toward the central GB are necessary to predict the microlensing event rate and to optimize the survey fields in future space missions such as Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/244/29
- Title:
- Microlensing events toward the Galactic bulge
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/244/29
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The number and properties of observed gravitational microlensing events depend on the distribution and kinematics of stars and other compact objects along the line of sight. In particular, precise measurements of the microlensing optical depth and event rate toward the Galactic bulge enable strict tests of competing models of the Milky Way. Previous estimates, based on samples of up to a few hundred events, gave larger values than expected from the Galactic models and were difficult to reconcile with other constraints on the Galactic structure. Here we used long-term photometric observations of the Galactic bulge by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) to select a homogeneous sample of 8000 gravitational microlensing events. We created the largest and most accurate microlensing optical depth and event rate maps of the Galactic bulge. The new maps ease the tension between the previous measurements and Galactic models. They are consistent with some earlier calculations based on bright stars and are systematically ~30% smaller than the other estimates based on "all-source" samples of microlensing events. The difference is caused by the careful estimation of the source star population. The new maps agree well with predictions based on the Besancon model of the Galaxy. Apart from testing the Milky Way models, our maps may have numerous other applications, such as the measurement of the initial mass function or constraining the dark matter content in the Milky Way center. The new maps will also inform the planning of future space-based microlensing experiments by revising the expected number of events.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/827/139
- Title:
- Microlensing optical depth & event rates from MOA-II
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/827/139
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We find that significant incompleteness in stellar number counts results in a significant overestimate of the microlensing optical depth {tau} and event rate per star per year {Gamma} toward the Galactic bulge from the first two years of the MOA-II survey. We find that the completeness in red clump giant (RCG) counts f_RC_ decreases proportional to the galactic latitude b, as f_RC_=(0.63+/-0.11)-(0.052+/-0.028)xb, ranging between 1 and 0.7 at b=-6{deg}~-1.5{deg}. The previous measurements using all sources by difference image analysis (DIA) by MACHO and MOA-I suffer the same bias. On the other hand, the measurements using an RCG sample by OGLE-II, MACHO, and EROS were free from this bias because they selected only the events associated with the resolved stars. Thus, the incompleteness both in the number of events and stellar number count cancel out. We estimate {tau} and {Gamma} by correcting this incompleteness. In the central fields with |l|<5{deg}, we find {Gamma}=[18.74+/-0.91]x10^-6^exp[(0.53+/-0.05)(3-|b|)]/star/yr and {tau}_200_=[1.84+/-0.14]x10^-6^exp[(0.44+/-0.07)(3-|b|)] for the 427 events with t_E_<=200 days using all sources brighter than I_s_<=20mag. Our revised all-source {tau} measurements are about 2{sigma} smaller than the other all-source measurements and are consistent with the RCG measurements within 1{sigma}. We conclude that the long-standing problem on discrepancy between the high {tau} with all-source samples by DIA and low {tau} with RCG samples can probably be explained by the incompleteness of the stellar number count. A model fit to these measurements predicts {Gamma}=4.60+/-0.25x10^-5^/star/yr at |b|~-1.4{deg} and -2.25{deg}<l<3.75{deg} for sources with I<=20, where the future space mission, Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope, will observe.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/567/A111
- Title:
- Multi-color detection of gravitational arcs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/567/A111
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Strong gravitational lensing provides fundamental insights into the understanding of the dark matter distribution in massive galaxies, galaxy clusters and the background cosmology. Despite their importance, the number of gravitational arcs discovered so far is small. The urge for more complete, large samples and unbiased methods of selecting candidates is rising. A number of methods for the automatic detection of arcs have been proposed in the literature, but large amounts of spurious detections retrieved by these methods forces observers to visually inspect thousands of candidates per square degree in order to clean the samples. This approach is largely subjective and requires a huge amount of eye-ball checking, especially considering the actual and upcoming wide field surveys, which will cover thousands of square degrees. In this paper we study the statistical properties of colours of gravitational arcs detected in the 37deg^2^ of the CARS survey.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/621/53
- Title:
- Multiple arc systems in A1689
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/621/53
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyze deep multicolor Advanced Camera images of the largest known gravitational lens, A1689. Radial and tangential arcs delineate the critical curves in unprecedented detail, and many small counterimages are found near the center of mass.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/749/97
- Title:
- Multiple lensed images in MCS J1206.2-0847
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/749/97
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a strong-lensing analysis of the galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2-0847 (z=0.44) using UV, Optical, and IR, HST/ACS/WFC3 data taken as part of the CLASH multi-cycle treasury program, with VLT/VIMOS spectroscopy for some of the multiply lensed arcs. The CLASH observations, combined with our mass model, allow us to identify 47 new multiply lensed images of 12 distant sources. These images, along with the previously known arc, span the redshift range 1<~z<~5.5, and thus enable us to derive a detailed mass distribution and to accurately constrain, for the first time, the inner mass profile of this cluster. We find an inner profile slope of dlog{Sigma}/dlog{theta}=~-0.55+/-0.1 (in the range [1",53"], or 5kpc<~r<~300kpc), as commonly found for relaxed and well-concentrated clusters. Using the many systems uncovered here we derive credible critical curves and Einstein radii for different source redshifts. For a source at z_s_=~2.5, the critical curve encloses a large area with an effective Einstein radius of {theta}_E_=28"+/-3", and a projected mass of (1.34+/-0.15)x10^14^M_{sun}_. From the current understanding of structure formation in concordance cosmology, these values are relatively high for clusters at z~0.5, so that detailed studies of the inner mass distribution of clusters such as MACS J1206.2-0847 can provide stringent tests of the {Lambda}CDM paradigm.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/817/60
- Title:
- Multiply imaged supernova Refsdal
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/817/60
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Supernova "Refsdal", multiply imaged by cluster MACS1149.5+2223, represents a rare opportunity to make a true blind test of model predictions in extragalactic astronomy, on a timescale that is short compared to a human lifetime. In order to take advantage of this event, we produced seven gravitational lens models with five independent methods, based on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Hubble Frontier Field images, along with extensive spectroscopic follow-up observations by HST, the Very Large and the Keck Telescopes. We compare the model predictions and show that they agree reasonably well with the measured time delays and magnification ratios between the known images, even though these quantities were not used as input. This agreement is encouraging, considering that the models only provide statistical uncertainties, and do not include additional sources of uncertainties such as structure along the line of sight, cosmology, and the mass sheet degeneracy. We then present the model predictions for the other appearances of supernova "Refsdal". A future image will reach its peak in the first half of 2016, while another image appeared between 1994 and 2004. The past image would have been too faint to be detected in existing archival images. The future image should be approximately one-third as bright as the brightest known image (i.e., H_AB_~25.7mag at peak and H_AB_~26.7mag six months before peak), and thus detectable in single-orbit HST images. We will find out soon whether our predictions are correct.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/592/A75
- Title:
- New lens candidates in CFHTLS
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/592/A75
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a new search for galaxy-scale strong lensing systems in CFHTLS Wide. Our lens-finding technique involves a preselection of potential lens galaxies, applying simple cuts in size and magnitude. We then perform a Principal Component Analysis of the galaxy images, ensuring a clean removal of the light profile. Lensed features are searched for in the residual images using the clustering topometric algorithm DBSCAN. We find 1098 lens candidates that we inspect visually, leading to a cleaned sample of 109 new lens candidates. Using realistic image simulations we estimate the completeness of our sample and show that it is independent of source surface brightness, Einstein ring size (image separation) or lens redshift. We compare the properties of our sample to previous lens searches in CFHTLS. Including the present search, the total number of lenses found in CFHTLS amounts to 678, which corresponds to ~4 lenses per square degree down to i(AB)=24.8. This is equivalent to ~60.000 lenses in total in a survey as wide as Euclid, but at the CFHTLS resolution and depth.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/300/323
- Title:
- NOT GL survey of multiply imaged quasars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/300/323
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A gravitational lens (GL)-search program, initiated in 1990 at the Nordic Optcal Telescope (NOT), has revealed several possible GL-candidates among a sample of 168 quasars (QSOs), chosen from three lists compiled by C. Hazard, D. Reimers and J. Surdej, respectively. Some of these candidates, selected for having close companions (within 5 arcseconds), were imaged in several filters and their colours compared. Low dispersion spectra of the most promising candidates were also obtained at the NOT and ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT). None of these has proved to be strong candidates of gravitational lensing effects. We present this new sample of QSOs and combine it with previously published optical QSO samples in a statistical analysis to yield constraints on flat cosmologies and galaxy velocity dispersions.
