STRIDES: a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408-5354 Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • ABSTRACT We present a blind time-delay cosmographic analysis for the lens system DES J04085354. This system is extraordinary for the presence of two sets of multiple images at different redshifts, which provide the opportunity to obtain more information at the cost of increased modelling complexity with respect to previously analysed systems. We perform detailed modelling of the mass distribution for this lens system using three band Hubble Space Telescope imaging. We combine the measured time delays, line-of-sight central velocity dispersion of the deflector, and statistically constrained external convergence with our lens models to estimate two cosmological distances. We measure the effective time-delay distance corresponding to the redshifts of the deflector and the lensed quasar $D_{Delta t}^{
    m eff}=$$3382_{-115}^{+146}$Mpc and the angular diameter distance to the deflector Dd = $1711_{-280}^{+376}$Mpc, with covariance between the two distances. From these constraints on the cosmological distances, we infer the Hubble constant H0= $74.2_{-3.0}^{+2.7}$kms1Mpc1 assuming a flat CDM cosmology and a uniform prior for m as $Omega _{
    m m} sim mathcal {U}(0.05, 0.5)$. This measurement gives the most precise constraint on H0 to date from a single lens. Our measurement is consistent with that obtained from the previous sample of six lenses analysed by the H0 Lenses in COSMOGRAILs Wellspring (H0LiCOW) collaboration. It is also consistent with measurements of H0 based on the local distance ladder, reinforcing the tension with the inference from early Universe probes, for example, with 2.2 discrepancy from the cosmic microwave background measurement.

published proceedings

  • MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

altmetric score

  • 96.516

author list (cited authors)

  • Shajib, A. J., Birrer, S., Treu, T., Agnello, A., Buckley-Geer, E. J., Chan, J., ... Zhang, Y.

citation count

  • 143

complete list of authors

  • Shajib, AJ||Birrer, S||Treu, T||Agnello, A||Buckley-Geer, EJ||Chan, JHH||Christensen, L||Lemon, C||Lin, H||Millon, M||Poh, J||Rusu, CE||Sluse, D||Spiniello, C||Chen, GC-F||Collett, T||Courbin, F||Fassnacht, CD||Frieman, J||Galan, A||Gilman, D||More, A||Anguita, T||Auger, MW||Bonvin, V||McMahon, R||Meylan, G||Wong, KC||Abbott, TMC||Annis, J||Avila, S||Bechtol, K||Brooks, D||Brout, D||Burke, DL||Rose, A Carnero||Kind, M Carrasco||Carretero, J||Castander, FJ||Costanzi, M||da Costa, LN||De Vicente, J||Desai, S||Dietrich, JP||Doel, P||Drlica-Wagner, A||Evrard, AE||Finley, DA||Flaugher, B||Fosalba, P||Garcia-Bellido, J||Gerdes, DW||Gruen, D||Gruendl, RA||Gschwend, J||Gutierrez, G||Hollowood, DL||Honscheid, K||Huterer, D||James, DJ||Jeltema, T||Krause, E||Kuropatkin, N||Li, TS||Lima, M||MacCrann, N||Maia, MAG||Marsha, JL||Melchior, P||Mique, R||Ogando, RLC||Palmese, A||Paz-Chinchon, F||Plazas, AA||Romer, AK||Roodman, A||Sako, M||Sanchez, E||Santiago, B||Scarpine, V||Schubnell, M||Scolnic, D||Serrano, S||Sevilla-Noarbe, I||Smith, M||Soares-Santos, M||Suchyta, E||Tarle, G||Thomas, D||Walker, AR||Zhang, Y

publication date

  • June 2020