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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2023

Measuring line-of-sight shear with Einstein rings: a proof of concept

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Line-of-sight effects in strong gravitational lensing have long been treated as a nuisance. However, it was recently proposed that the line-of-sight shear could be a cosmological observable in its own right, if it is not degenerate with lens model parameters. Using the formalism introduced by Fleury et al. (2021a), we firstly demonstrate that the line-of-sight shear can be accurately measured from a simple simulated strong lensing image with percent precision. We then extend our analysis to more complex simulated images and stress test the recovery of the line-of-sight shear when using deficient fitting models, finding that it escapes from degeneracies with lens model parameters, albeit at the expense of the precision. Lastly, we check the validity of the tidal approximation by simulating and fitting an image generated in the presence of many line-of-sight dark matter haloes, finding that an explicit violation of the tidal approximation does not necessarily prevent one from measuring the line-of-sight shear.
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hal-03833837 , version 1 (19-01-2024)

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Natalie B. Hogg, Pierre Fleury, Julien Larena, Matteo Martinelli. Measuring line-of-sight shear with Einstein rings: a proof of concept. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023, 520 (4), pp.5982-6000. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stad512⟩. ⟨hal-03833837⟩
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