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2019MNRAS.490.1743C - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 490, 1743-1773 (2019/December-1)

A SHARP view of H0LiCOW: H0 from three time-delay gravitational lens systems with adaptive optics imaging.

CHEN G.C.-F., FASSNACHT C.D., SUYU S.H., RUSU C.E., CHAN J.H.H., WONG K.C., AUGER M.W., HILBERT S., BONVIN V., BIRRER S., MILLON M., KOOPMANS L.V.E., LAGATTUTA D.J., McKEAN J.P., VEGETTI S., COURBIN F., DING X., HALKOLA A., JEE I., SHAJIB A.J., SLUSE D., SONNENFELD A. and TREU T.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present the measurement of the Hubble constant, H0, with three strong gravitational lens systems. We describe a blind analysis of both PG 1115+080 and HE 0435-1223 as well as an extension of our previous analysis of RXJ 1131-1231. For each lens, we combine new adaptive optics (AO) imaging from the Keck Telescope, obtained as part of the SHARP (Strong-lensing High Angular Resolution Programme) AO effort, with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging, velocity dispersion measurements, and a description of the line-of-sight mass distribution to build an accurate and precise lens mass model. This mass model is then combined with the COSMOGRAIL-measured time delays in these systems to determine H0. We do both an AO-only and an AO + HST analysis of the systems and find that AO and HST results are consistent. After unblinding, the AO-only analysis gives H0=82.8+9.4–8.3∼ km s–1 Mpc–1 for PG 1115+080, H0=70.1+5.3–4.5∼ km s–1 Mpc–1 for HE 0435-1223, and H0=77.0+4.0–4.6∼ km s–1 Mpc–1 for RXJ 1131-1231. The joint AO-only result for the three lenses is H0=75.6+3.2–3.3∼ km s–1 Mpc–1. The joint result of the AO + HST analysis for the three lenses is H0=76.8+2.6–2.6∼ km s–1 Mpc–1. All of these results assume a flat Λ cold dark matter cosmology with a uniform prior on Ωm in [0.05, 0.5] and H0 in [0, 150] km s–1 Mpc–1. This work is a collaboration of the SHARP and H0LiCOW teams, and shows that AO data can be used as the high-resolution imaging component in lens-based measurements of H0. The full time-delay cosmography results from a total of six strongly lensed systems are presented in a companion paper.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): gravitational lensing: strong - instrumentation: adaptive optics - distance scale

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