Line-of-sight effects in strong gravitational lensing
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Publication:5070232
DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/08/024zbMATH Open1492.85014arXiv2104.08883OpenAlexW3153458674MaRDI QIDQ5070232FDOQ5070232
J. Larena, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Pierre Fleury
Publication date: 11 April 2022
Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: While most strong-gravitational-lensing systems may be roughly modelled by a single massive object between the source and the observer, in the details all the structures near the light path contribute to the observed images. These additional contributions, known as line-of-sight effects, are non-negligible in practice. This article proposes a new theoretical framework to model the line-of-sight effects, together with very promising applications at the interface of weak and strong lensing. Our approach relies on the dominant-lens approximation, where one deflector is treated as the main lens while the others are treated as perturbations. The resulting framework is technically simpler to handle than the multi-plane lensing formalism, while allowing one to consistently model any sub-critical perturbation. In particular, it is not limited to the usual external-convergence and external-shear parameterisation. As a first application, we identify a specific notion of line-of-sight shear that is not degenerate with the ellipticity of the main lens, and which could thus be extracted from strong-lensing images. This result supports and improves the recent proposal that Einstein rings might be powerful probes of cosmic shear. As a second application, we investigate the distortions of strong-lensing critical curves under line-of-sight effects, and more particularly their correlations across the sky. We find that such correlations may be used to probe, not only the large-scale structure of the Universe, but also the dark-matter halo profiles of strong lenses. This last possibility would be a key asset to improve the accuracy of the measurement of the Hubble-Lema^itre constant via time-delay cosmography.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08883
Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)
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