p. jovanovic/l. popovic: gravitational lensing statistics and cosmology
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PREDRAG JOVANOVIĆAND
LUKA Č. POPOVIĆ
ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY
BELGRADE, SERBIA
Gravitational Lensing Statistics and Cosmology
Outline
Observational cosmology: basics and parameters Cosmological experiments:3. Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR)4. Type Ia supernovae5. Gravitational lensing
Strong: detection of distant galaxies Weak: detection of dark matter Time delay: determination of H0
Statistics: constraining Ω0 and ΩΛ
Problems with gravitational lensing statistics
Conclusions
Cosmology basics
The current models of cosmology are based on the field equations of general relativity:
Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric: a solution of the Einstein field equations in the case of a simply connected, homogeneous, isotropic expanding or contracting universe:
r, ϕ, ϑ - comoving polar coordinates k - the scalar curvature of the 3-space: k = 0, > 0, or < 0 corresponds to
flat, closed, or open universe a(t) - the dimensionless scale factor of the universe ΛCDM model uses the FLRW metric, the Friedmann equations and the
cosmological equation of state to describe the universe
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1 8,
2
GR g R g T
cµν µν µν µνπ− + Λ =
( )2
2 2 2 2 2 2 22
( ) sin ,1
drds dt a t r d d
krϑ θ ϕ
= − + + + −
Cosmological parameters
H - the Hubble constant ρ - the mass density of the universe Λ - the cosmological constant k - the curvature of space a - the expansion factor of universe dimensionless density
parameters:
where the subscript “0” indicate the quantities which in general evolve with time and which are referring to the present epoch
several observational techniques are used for their estimation
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H
π ρΩ =2
20
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c
HΛΛΩ =
2 20 0
,k
k
a HΩ = − 1M kΛΩ + Ω + Ω =
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
The "angular spectrum" of the fluctuations in the WMAP full-sky map, showing the relative brightness of the "spots" in the map vs. the size of the spots. The shape of this curve contain a wealth of information about the history of the universe
Supernova Cosmology Project
Type Ia supernovae: the standard candles
Intrinsic luminosity is known Apparent luminosity can be measured The ratio of above two luminosities
can provide the luminosity-distance (dL) of a SN
The red shift z can be measured independently from spectroscopy
Using dL (z) or equivalently the magnitude(z) one can draw a Hubble diagram
Constraining the cosmological parameters
• Riess et al. 2004, ApJ, 607, 665• Tonry et al. 2003, ApJ, 594, 1
Content of the Universe
Gravitational lensing
Einstein Ring Radius of a gravitational lens
QSO 2237+030 (z=1.695), also known as “Einstein cross” and lensing galaxy ZW2237+030 (z=0.0394)
RXJ1131-1231
PG 1115+080
Examples:
Strong lensing: detection of distant galaxies
•The orange arc: an elliptical galaxy at z=0.7, •the blue arcs: star forming galaxies at z= 1 - 2.5 •the red arc and the red dot: the farthest known galaxy at z~7 (13 billion ly away, i.e.
only 750 million years after the big bang
Weak lensing: detection of dark matter
unlensed lensed
Distribution of dark matter
The Hubble constant from gravitational lens time delays
Kochanek & Schechter, 2003, astro-ph/0306040
Courbin, 2003,astro-ph/0304497
HST Key Project: determination of the H0 by the systematic observations of Cepheid variable stars in several galaxies using HST
Gravitational lensing statistics
More details about history and basics in the book: P. Schneider, C. Kochanek and J. Wambsganss, 2006, “Gravitational Lensing: Strong, Weak and Micro”, Saas-Fee Advanced Courses, Springer Berlin Heidelberg (http://www.springerlink.com/content/n37347/)
Optical depth for gravitational lensing, i.e. the probability to observe such effects (Turner et al. 1984, ApJ, 284, 1; Turner, 1990, ApJ, 365, L43):
where zS and zL are the source and lens redshifts, σ is lens velocity dispersion, φ(σ; zL) is the velocity function, A is the cross section for multiple imaging, B is the magnification bias, dV is the differential comoving volume element
The Current State: lens statistics constraints on ΩΛ and Ω0 are in good agreement with results from Type Ia supernovae
for a spatially flat universe: ΩΛ = 0.72 - 0.78 (Mitchell et al. 2005, ApJ, 622, 81)
Likelihood contours at the 68%, 90%, 95%, and 99% confidence levels. The dotted line marks spatially flat cosmologies
The separation distribution of the 12 CLASS lenses
Mitchell et al. 2005, ApJ, 622, 81
Differential (thick) and cumulative (thin) probability along the line of spatially flat cosmologies
Gravitational macrolensing optical depth
The effective optical depth is related to the number NGL(z) of multiply imaged quasars within a sample of NQSO(z) quasars with redshifts z by:
( ) ( )( )
GLGL
QSO
N zz
N zτ =
Zakharov, Popović and Jovanović, 2004, A&A, 881
Distribution of all QSOs and lensed QSOs in Veron & Veron Catalogue
Veron-Cetty & Veron, 2006, A&A, 455, 773: a sample of 85221 (NQSO) quasars among which 69 (NGL) are gravitationally lensed
The ratio of lensed to total number of quasars and optical depth for three different flat cosmological models as a function of quasar redshift
Optical depth of cosmologically distributed gravitational microlenses
(Zakharov, Popović and Jovanović, 2004, A&A, 881)
Optical depth of cosmologically distributed gravitational microlenses for three different values of ΩL
Problems with gravitational lensing statistics
Small number of observed gravitational lenses (~100) is insufficient for reliable statistics. Solution not later than 2015: LSST, SNAP, SKA and JWST projects will drastically increase the number of detected gravitational lenses
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST): 2013
SuperNova/Acceleration Probe (SNAP): 2013
Square Kilometre Array (SKA): 2015
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): 2013
Extinction by dust in the lens galaxies leads to artificially low number of observed lenses Galaxy evolution: decrease of lensing population for higher redshifts would lower the
number of observed lenses Ellipticity and clustering: mass distributions of lenses is not circularly symmetric Cosmology
Conclusions
We demonstrated constraining the cosmological parameters by gravitational lens statistics on a sample of lensed quasars from Veron & Veron catalogue of quasars and active nuclei
Obtained results are in satisfactory agreement with those obtained from CLASS and SDSS surveys (Mitchell et al. 2005, ApJ, 622, 81)
Optical depth of cosmologically distributed gravitational microlenses also depends on assumed cosmological model (Zakharov, Popović and Jovanović, 2004, A&A, 881)