2025-12-05 東京大学
TDCOSMO 2025 サンプルに含まれる8つの重力レンズクエーサー
(クレジット：TDCOSMO Collaboration et al. 2025, A&A, in press)
＜関連情報＞
- https://www.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/press/11007/
- https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/12/aa55801-25/aa55801-25.html
TDCOSMO 2025: 強い重力レンズ効果による時間遅延からの宇宙論的制約 TDCOSMO 2025: Cosmological constraints from strong lensing time delays
TDCOSMO Collaboration:Simon Birrer, Elizabeth J. Buckley-Geer, Michele Cappellari, Frédéric Courbin, Frédéric Dux, Christopher D. Fassnacht, Joshua A. Frieman, Aymeric Galan, Daniel Gilman, Xiang-Yu Huang, Shawn Knabel, Danial Langeroodi, Huan Lin, Martin Millon, Takahiro Morishita, Veronica Motta, Pritom Mozumdar, Eric Paic, Anowar J. Shajib, William Sheu, Dominique Sluse, Alessandro Sonnenfeld, Chiara Spiniello, Massimo Stiavelli, Sherry H. Suyu,, Chin Yi Tan, Tommaso Treu, Lyne Van de Vyvere, Han Wang, Patrick Wells, Devon M. Williams and Kenneth C. Wong
Astronomy & Astrophysics Published: 05 December 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202555801
Abstract
We present cosmological constraints from eight strongly lensed quasars (hereafter, the TDCOSMO-2025 sample). Building on previous work, our analysis incorporated new deflector stellar velocity dispersions measured from spectra obtained with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Keck Telescopes, and the Very Large Telescope (VLT), utilizing improved methods. We used integrated JWST stellar kinematics for five lenses, VLT-MUSE for 2, and resolved kinematics from Keck and JWST for RX J1131−1231. We also considered two samples of non-time-delay lenses: 11 from the Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) sample with Keck-KCWI resolved kinematics; and four from the Strong Lenses in the Legacy Survey (SL2S) sample. We improved our analysis of line-of-sight effects, the surface brightness profile of the lens galaxies, and orbital anisotropy, and corrected for projection effects in the dynamics. Our uncertainties are maximally conservative by accounting for the mass-sheet degeneracy in the deflectors’ mass density profiles. The analysis was blinded to prevent experimenter bias. Our primary result is based on the TDCOSMO-2025 sample, in combination with Ωm constraints from the Pantheon+ Type Ia supernovae (SN) dataset. In the flat Λ cold dark matter (CDM), we find H0 = 71.6+3.9−3.3 km s−1 Mpc−1. The SLACS and SL2S samples are in excellent agreement with the TDCOSMO-2025 sample, improving the precision on H0 in flat ΛCDM to 4.6%. Using the Dark Energy Survey SN Year-5 dataset (DES-SN5YR) or DESI-DR2 baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) likelihoods instead of Pantheon+ yields very similar results. We also present constraints in the open ΛCDM, wCDM, w0waCDM, and wϕCDM cosmologies. The TDCOSMO H0 inference is robust and consistent across all presented cosmological models, and our cosmological constraints in them agree with those from the BAO and SN.
