TDCOSMO XVII. New time delays in 22 lensed quasars from optical monitoring with the ESO-VST 2.6m and MPG 2.2m telescopes
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| author | Dux, Frédéric Millon, Martin Galan, Aymeric Paic, Eric Lemon, Cameron Courbin, Frédéric Bonvin, Vivien Anguita, Timo Auger, Matt Birrer, Simon Buckley-Geer, Elisabeth Fassnacht, Chris Frieman, Joshua McMahon, Richard G. Marshall, Philip J. Melo, Alejandra Motta, Verónica Neira, Favio Sluse, Dominique Suyu, Sherry H. Treu, Tommaso Agnello, Adriano Ávila, Felipe Chan, James Chijani, M. A. Rojas, Karina Hempel, Angela Hempel, Maren Kim, Sam Eigenthaler, Paul Lachaume, Regis Rabus, Markus |
| author_facet | Dux, Frédéric Millon, Martin Galan, Aymeric Paic, Eric Lemon, Cameron Courbin, Frédéric Bonvin, Vivien Anguita, Timo Auger, Matt Birrer, Simon Buckley-Geer, Elisabeth Fassnacht, Chris Frieman, Joshua McMahon, Richard G. Marshall, Philip J. Melo, Alejandra Motta, Verónica Neira, Favio Sluse, Dominique Suyu, Sherry H. Treu, Tommaso Agnello, Adriano Ávila, Felipe Chan, James Chijani, M. A. Rojas, Karina Hempel, Angela Hempel, Maren Kim, Sam Eigenthaler, Paul Lachaume, Regis Rabus, Markus |
| contents | We present new time delays, the main ingredient of time delay cosmography, for 22 lensed quasars resulting from high-cadence r-band monitoring on the 2.6 m ESO VLT Survey Telescope and Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 2.2 m telescope. Each lensed quasar was typically monitored for one to four seasons, often shared between the two telescopes to mitigate the interruptions forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample of targets consists of 19 quadruply and 3 doubly imaged quasars, which received a total of 1 918 hours of on-sky time split into 21 581 wide-field frames, each 320 seconds long. In a given field, the 5-σ depth of the combined exposures typically reaches the 27th magnitude, while that of single visits is 24.5 mag - similar to the expected depth of the upcoming Vera-Rubin LSST. The fluxes of the different lensed images of the targets were reliably de-blended, providing not only light curves with photometric precision down to the photon noise limit, but also high-resolution models of the targets whose features and astrometry were systematically confirmed in Hubble Space Telescope imaging. This was made possible thanks to a new photometric pipeline, lightcurver, and the forward modelling method STARRED. Finally, the time delays between pairs of curves and their uncertainties were estimated, taking into account the degeneracy due to microlensing, and for the first time the full covariance matrices of the delay pairs are provided. Of note, this survey, with 13 square degrees, has applications beyond that of time delays, such as the study of the structure function of the multiple high-redshift quasars present in the footprint at a new high in terms of both depth and frequency. The reduced images will be available through the European Southern Observatory Science Portal. |
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| spellingShingle | TDCOSMO XVII. New time delays in 22 lensed quasars from optical monitoring with the ESO-VST 2.6m and MPG 2.2m telescopes Dux, Frédéric Millon, Martin Galan, Aymeric Paic, Eric Lemon, Cameron Courbin, Frédéric Bonvin, Vivien Anguita, Timo Auger, Matt Birrer, Simon Buckley-Geer, Elisabeth Fassnacht, Chris Frieman, Joshua McMahon, Richard G. Marshall, Philip J. Melo, Alejandra Motta, Verónica Neira, Favio Sluse, Dominique Suyu, Sherry H. Treu, Tommaso Agnello, Adriano Ávila, Felipe Chan, James Chijani, M. A. Rojas, Karina Hempel, Angela Hempel, Maren Kim, Sam Eigenthaler, Paul Lachaume, Regis Rabus, Markus Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics We present new time delays, the main ingredient of time delay cosmography, for 22 lensed quasars resulting from high-cadence r-band monitoring on the 2.6 m ESO VLT Survey Telescope and Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 2.2 m telescope. Each lensed quasar was typically monitored for one to four seasons, often shared between the two telescopes to mitigate the interruptions forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample of targets consists of 19 quadruply and 3 doubly imaged quasars, which received a total of 1 918 hours of on-sky time split into 21 581 wide-field frames, each 320 seconds long. In a given field, the 5-σ depth of the combined exposures typically reaches the 27th magnitude, while that of single visits is 24.5 mag - similar to the expected depth of the upcoming Vera-Rubin LSST. The fluxes of the different lensed images of the targets were reliably de-blended, providing not only light curves with photometric precision down to the photon noise limit, but also high-resolution models of the targets whose features and astrometry were systematically confirmed in Hubble Space Telescope imaging. This was made possible thanks to a new photometric pipeline, lightcurver, and the forward modelling method STARRED. Finally, the time delays between pairs of curves and their uncertainties were estimated, taking into account the degeneracy due to microlensing, and for the first time the full covariance matrices of the delay pairs are provided. Of note, this survey, with 13 square degrees, has applications beyond that of time delays, such as the study of the structure function of the multiple high-redshift quasars present in the footprint at a new high in terms of both depth and frequency. The reduced images will be available through the European Southern Observatory Science Portal. |
| title | TDCOSMO XVII. New time delays in 22 lensed quasars from optical monitoring with the ESO-VST 2.6m and MPG 2.2m telescopes |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02932 |