English

Probing the cosmic distance duality relation using time delay lenses

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2017-07-19 v2 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

The construction of the cosmic distance-duality relation (CDDR) has been widely studied. However, its consistency with various new observables remains a topic of interest. We present a new way to constrain the CDDR η(z)\eta(z) using different dynamic and geometric properties of strong gravitational lenses (SGL) along with SNe Ia observations. We use a sample of 102102 SGL with the measurement of corresponding velocity dispersion σ0\sigma_0 and Einstein radius θE\theta_E. In addition, we also use a dataset of 1212 two image lensing systems containing the measure of time delay Δt\Delta t between source images. Jointly these two datasets give us the angular diameter distance DAolD_{A_{ol}} of the lens. Further, for luminosity distance, we use the 740740 observations from JLA compilation of SNe Ia. To study the combined behavior of these datasets we use a model independent method, Gaussian Process (GP). We also check the efficiency of GP by applying it on simulated datasets, which are generated in a phenomenological way by using realistic cosmological error bars. Finally, we conclude that the combined bounds from the SGL and SNe Ia observation do not favor any deviation of CDDR and are in concordance with the standard value (η=1\eta=1) within 2σ2\sigma confidence region, which further strengthens the theoretical acceptance of CDDR.

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@article{arxiv.1705.04549,
  title  = {Probing the cosmic distance duality relation using time delay lenses},
  author = {Akshay Rana and Deepak Jain and Shobhit Mahajan and Amitabha Mukherjee and R. F. L. Holanda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.04549},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

15 Pages, 7 Figures, Accepted for publication in JCAP

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