Gravitational lensing by an ellipsoidal Navarro-Frenk-White dark-matter halo: An analytic solution and its properties

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202450189" target="_blank" >10.1051/0004-6361/202450189</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Gravitational lensing by an ellipsoidal Navarro-Frenk-White dark-matter halo: An analytic solution and its properties

Original language description

Context. The analysis of gravitational lensing by galaxies and galaxy clusters typically relies on ellipsoidal lens models to describe the deflection of light by the involved dark-matter halos. These models are most often based on the isothermal density profile - not an optimal description of the halo, but easy to use because it leads to an analytic deflection-angle formula. Aims. Dark-matter halos are better described by the Navarro-Frenk-White (hereafter NFW) density profile. We set out to study lensing by a general triaxial ellipsoidal NFW halo, with the aim of providing an analytic model that would be more consistent with the current understanding of dark-matter halos. Methods. We computed the conversion between the properties of a triaxial ellipsoidal lens model and its elliptical surface-density profile. In the case of the NFW lens model, its angular scale is defined by the projected scale semi-major axis of the halo, while its lensing regime depends on two parameters: the projected eccentricity e and the convergence parameter kappa s. We employed the Bourassa &amp; Kantowski formalism to compute the complex scattering function of the model, which yields the deflection-angle components when separated into its real and imaginary parts. Results. We present the obtained closed-form expressions for the deflection-angle components, valid for an arbitrary eccentricity of the surface-density profile. We use them to compute and describe the lensing properties of the model, including: the shear, its components, and the phase; the critical curves, caustics, and the parameter-space mapping of their different geometries; the deformations and orientations of images. Conclusions. The analytically solved ellipsoidal NFW lens model is available for implementation in gravitational lensing software. The techniques introduced here such as the image-plane analysis can prove to be useful for understanding the properties of other lens models as well.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10300 - Physical sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics

ISSN

0004-6361

e-ISSN

1432-0746

Volume of the periodical

690

Issue of the periodical within the volume

690

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

40

Pages from-to

A19

UT code for WoS article

001322237700014

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85206342806