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

A. J. Shajib; S. Birrer; T. Treu; A. Agnello; E. J. Buckley-Geer; J. H. H. Chan; L. Christensen; C. Lemon; H. Lin; M. Millon; J. Poh; C. E. Rusu; D. Sluse; C. Spiniello; G. C-F Chen; T. Collett; F. Courbin; C. D. Fassnacht; J. Frieman; A. Galan; D. Gilman; A. More; T. Anguita; M. W. Auger; Bonvin; R. McMahon; G. Meylan; K. C. Wong; T. M. C. Abbott; J. Annis; S. Avila; K. Bechtol; D. Brooks; D. Brout; D. L. Burke; A. Carnero Rose; M. Carrasco Kind; J. Carretero; F. J. Castander; M. Costanzi; L. N. da Costa; J. De Vicente; S. Desai; J. P. Dietrich; P. Doel; A. Drlica-Wagner; A. E. Evrard; D. A. Finley; B. Flaugher; P. Fosalba; J. Garcia-Bellido; D. W. Gerdes; D. Gruen; R. A. Gruendl; J. Gschwend; G. Gutierrez; D. L. Hollowood; K. Honscheid; D. Huterer; D. J. James; T. Jeltema; E. Krause; N. Kuropatkin; T. S. Li; M. Lima; N. MacCrann; M. A. G. Maia; J. L. Marsha; P. Melchior; R. Mique; R. L. C. Ogando; A. Palmese; F. Paz-Chinchon; A. A. Plazas; A. K. Romer; A. Roodman; M. Sako; E. Sanchez; B. Santiago; Scarpine; M. Schubnell; D. Scolnic; S. Serrano; Sevilla-Noarbe; M. Smith; M. Soares-Santos; E. Suchyta; G. Tarle; D. Thomas; A. R. Walker; Y. Zhang; Liege U

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

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

A. J. Shajib, S. Birrer, T. Treu, A. Agnello, E. J. Buckley-Geer, J. H. H. Chan, L. Christensen, C. Lemon, H. Lin, M. Millon, …

Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.494(4), pp.6072-6102

06/01/2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa828

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We present a blind time-delay cosmographic analysis for the lens system DES J0408-5354. 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 themeasured 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(eff) = 3382(-115)(+146) Mpc and the angular diameter distance to the deflector D-d = 1711(-280)(+376) Mpc, with covariance between the two distances. From these constraints on the cosmological distances, we infer the Hubble constant H-0 = 74.2(-3.0)(+2.7) km s(-1) Mpc(-1) assuming a flat Lambda CDM cosmology and a uniform prior for Omega(m) as Omega(m) similar to U(0.05, 0.5). This measurement gives the most precise constraint on H-0 to date from a single lens. Our measurement is consistent with that obtained from the previous sample of six lenses analysed by the H-0 Lenses in COSMOGRAIL's Wellspring (H0LiCOW) collaboration. It is also consistent with measurements of H-0 based on the local distance ladder, reinforcing the tension with the inference from early Universe probes, for example, with 2.2 sigma discrepancy from the cosmic microwave background measurement.

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Title: STRIDES: a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408-5354
Creators: A. J. Shajib - University of California, Los Angeles
S. Birrer - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
T. Treu - University of California, Los Angeles
A. Agnello - University of Copenhagen
E. J. Buckley-Geer - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
J. H. H. Chan - Federal Reserve
L. Christensen - University of Copenhagen
C. Lemon - Federal Reserve
H. Lin - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
M. Millon - Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne EPFL, Inst Phys, Lab Astrophys, Observ Sauverny, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland
J. Poh - University of Chicago
C. E. Rusu - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
D. Sluse - Agora
C. Spiniello - INAF Osservatorio Astron Capodimonte, Salita Moiatiello 16, I-80131 Naples, Italy
G. C-F Chen - University of California, Davis
T. Collett - University of Portsmouth
F. Courbin - Federal Reserve
C. D. Fassnacht - University of California, Davis
J. Frieman - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
A. Galan - Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne EPFL, Inst Phys, Lab Astrophys, Observ Sauverny, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland
D. Gilman - Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Phys & Astron, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
A. More - Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
T. Anguita - Millennium Institute of Astrophysics
M. W. Auger - University of Cambridge
Bonvin - Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne EPFL, Inst Phys, Lab Astrophys, Observ Sauverny, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland
R. McMahon - University of Cambridge
G. Meylan - Federal Reserve
K. C. Wong - Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
T. M. C. Abbott - Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
J. Annis - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
S. Avila - University of Portsmouth
K. Bechtol - University of Wisconsin–Madison
D. Brooks - University College London
D. Brout - University of Pennsylvania
D. L. Burke - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
A. Carnero Rose - Ctr Invest Energet Medioambietatales & Tecnol CIE, Madrid, Spain
M. Carrasco Kind - National Center for Supercomputing Applications
J. Carretero - Institute for High Energy Physics
F. J. Castander - Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya
M. Costanzi - Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe
L. N. da Costa - Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia
J. De Vicente - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
S. Desai - Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
J. P. Dietrich - Excellence Cluster Origins
P. Doel - University College London
A. Drlica-Wagner - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
A. E. Evrard - University of Michigan
D. A. Finley - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
B. Flaugher - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
P. Fosalba - Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya
J. Garcia-Bellido - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
D. W. Gerdes - University of Michigan
D. Gruen - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
R. A. Gruendl - National Center for Supercomputing Applications
J. Gschwend - Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia
G. Gutierrez - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
D. L. Hollowood - University of California, Santa Cruz
K. Honscheid - The Ohio State University
D. Huterer - University of Michigan
D. J. James - Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian
T. Jeltema - Santa Cruz Inst Particle Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
E. Krause - University of Arizona
N. Kuropatkin - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
T. S. Li - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
M. Lima - Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia
N. MacCrann - The Ohio State University
M. A. G. Maia - Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia
J. L. Marsha - Texas A&M Univ, George P & Cynthia Woods Mitchell Inst Fundamenta, Coll Stn, TX 77843 USA
P. Melchior - Princeton University
R. Mique - Barcelona Inst Sci & Technol, Inst Fis Altes Energies IFAE, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
R. L. C. Ogando - Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia
A. Palmese - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
F. Paz-Chinchon - National Center for Supercomputing Applications
A. A. Plazas - Princeton University
A. K. Romer - University of Sussex
A. Roodman - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
M. Sako - University of Pennsylvania
E. Sanchez - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
B. Santiago - Lab Interinst & Astron LIneA, Rua Gal Jose Cristino 77, BR-20921400 Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Scarpine - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
M. Schubnell - University of Michigan
D. Scolnic - University of Chicago
S. Serrano - Institute of Space Sciences
Sevilla-Noarbe - Ctr Invest Energet Medioambietatales & Tecnol CIE, Madrid, Spain
M. Smith - University of Southampton
M. Soares-Santos - Brandeis University, Martin A. Fisher School of Physics
E. Suchyta - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
G. Tarle - Institute for High Energy Physics
D. Thomas - University of Portsmouth
A. R. Walker - Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Y. Zhang - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Liege U
Publication Details: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.494(4), pp.6072-6102
Publisher: Oxford Univ Press
Number of pages: 31
Grant note: European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013); European Research Council (ERC) University of Edinburgh University of Chicago U.S. Department of Energy; United States Department of Energy (DOE) World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, Japan; Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; United States Department of Energy (DOE) HST-GO-15320 / National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia e Inovacao; Spanish Government Ministry of Science and Education of Spain; Spanish Government
Identifiers: 9924552850101921
Academic Unit: Martin A. Fisher School of Physics
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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