Prajakta Mane
MS19054
IDC451: Seminar Delivery
Topic of the Work
Gravitational Lensing
Why Lensed Type Ia Supernovae
Science Steps and Results
Topic of the Work
Source: https://www.lsst.org/about
Topic of the Work
Gravitational Lensing
Bending of light due to the gravitational field of massive objects.
Different forms
Strong gravitational lensing
Weak gravitational lensing
Microlensing
JWST's First Deep Field Image
Lens Equation
The Lens Equation
Deflection Angle
where
where, lensing/deflection potential is given as,
and Fermat Potential,
The Fermat principle: The physical light rays are those for which the light travel time is stationary.
1. Magnification
2. Distortion
3. Time Delay
Magnification and Distortion
The magnification of each image is related to the Jacobian of the transformation equation.
where the magnification matrix is given as,
where the magnification matrix can also be written as,
combination of the symmetric magnification and the sheer
The magnification of each image is related to the Jacobian of the transformation equation.
µ = fluxes observed from image/fluxes observed from unlensed source
Magnification and Distortion
Critical Curves in image plane
Extended, elliptical lens
Joachim Wambsganss, 1998 + Narayan and Bartelmann, 1998
Caustics in source plane
curves
Based on the eigenvalues of the Jacobian A, the lensed images can be divided into three types
contours
Blandford and Narayan, 1986
Time Delay
Two components
1. Geometrical Time Delay: the individual light rays get deflected at different angles, their geometrical lengths are different giving rise to the geometrical time delay.
2. Gravitational Time Delay: light rays propagate through a gravitational potential which retards them, resulting in the gravitational time delay.
Total time delay = geometrical time delay + gravitational time delay
Collaborations like H0LiCoW, COSMOGRAIL, TDCOSMO
Vera Rubin Observatory and the LSST
Subaru Telescope and Hyper-Suprime Cam
Vera Rubin Observatory and the LSST
Simulating lensing events for a set of supernovae and generate a catalog of information required for the further step of injection
Simulating lensing events for a set of supernovae and generate a catalog of information required for the further step of injection
Injecting the information from the catalog produced in step one in a real patch of sky observed by the HSC
(tract 9813) in the LSST Framework. This data, partly real-partly simulated, will be processed further in the LSST Stack.
Simulating lensing events for a set of supernovae and generate a catalog of information required for the further step of injection
Injecting the information from the catalog produced in step one in a real patch of sky observed by the HSC
(tract 9813) in the LSST Framework. This data, partly real-partly simulated, will be processed further in the LSST Stack.
Subtracting the output image (science image) of the real sky with the injected lensed supernovae from the reference image containing only the real information of the same tract. Further analysis and tests will be performed on the recovered image to determine the efficiency of the the analysis pipeline. The pipeline will be
tweaked, if required, to get better results.
Light curves of some simulated supernova. X-axis is time in Modified Julian Dates(MJDs) and Y-axis is the apparent magnitude of the source and its lensed images in observer frame HSC-i bandpass. The vertical lines show the t0 parameter of the light curves corresponding to each supernova. The horizontal line shows the maximum magnitude observable by the HSC in Ultra-deep level for i band.
Peak Band Apparent Magnitudes for
Unlensed Supernovae
Peak Band Apparent Magnitudes after Lensing of Supernovae
We plan continue this project and complete the analysis by performing the science step 2 and 3. Once completed, this pipeline could be used to analyze the upcoming LSST data in order to find the strongly lensed type Ia supernovae.
The type Ia supernovae retrieved with the help of this pipeline from the LSST data could be studied further in the direction of obtaining independent constraints on the value of the Hubble Constant, although this aspect has not been discussed of as of presently.