TDCOSMO XXIV. First spatially resolved kinematics of the lens galaxy obtained using JWST-NIRSpec to improve time-delay cosmography
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| author | Shajib, Anowar J. Treu, Tommaso Suyu, Sherry H. Law, David Yıldırım, Akın Cappellari, Michele Galan, Aymeric Knabel, Shawn Wang, Han Birrer, Simon Courbin, Frédéric Fassnacht, Christopher D. Frieman, Joshua A. Melo, Alejandra Morishita, Takahiro Mozumdar, Pritom Sluse, Dominique Stiavelli, Massimo |
| author_facet | Shajib, Anowar J. Treu, Tommaso Suyu, Sherry H. Law, David Yıldırım, Akın Cappellari, Michele Galan, Aymeric Knabel, Shawn Wang, Han Birrer, Simon Courbin, Frédéric Fassnacht, Christopher D. Frieman, Joshua A. Melo, Alejandra Morishita, Takahiro Mozumdar, Pritom Sluse, Dominique Stiavelli, Massimo |
| contents | Spatially resolved stellar kinematics has become a key ingredient in time-delay cosmography to break the mass-sheet degeneracy in the mass profile and in turn provide a precise constraint on the Hubble constant and other cosmological parameters. In this paper, we present the first measurements of 2D resolved stellar kinematics for the lens galaxy in the quadruply lensed quasar system RXJ1131$-$1231 using integral field spectroscopy from JWST's Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), marking the first such measurement conducted with JWST. In extracting robust kinematic measurements from this first-of-its-kind dataset, we have made methodological improvements both in the data reduction and kinematic extraction. In our kinematic extraction procedure, we performed joint modeling of the lens galaxy, the quasar, and its host galaxy's contributions in the spectra to deblend the lens galaxy component and robustly constrain its stellar kinematics. Our improved methodological frameworks are released as software pipelines for future use: squirrel, for extracting stellar kinematics, and RegalJumper, for JWST-NIRSpec data reduction. We incorporated additional artifact cleaning beyond the standard JWST pipeline. We compared our measured stellar kinematics from the JWST NIRSpec with previously obtained ground-based measurements from the Keck Cosmic Web Imager integral field unit and find that the two datasets are statistically consistent at a $\sim$1.1$σ$ confidence level. Our measured kinematics will be used in a future study to improve the precision of the Hubble constant measurement. |
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| spellingShingle | TDCOSMO XXIV. First spatially resolved kinematics of the lens galaxy obtained using JWST-NIRSpec to improve time-delay cosmography Shajib, Anowar J. Treu, Tommaso Suyu, Sherry H. Law, David Yıldırım, Akın Cappellari, Michele Galan, Aymeric Knabel, Shawn Wang, Han Birrer, Simon Courbin, Frédéric Fassnacht, Christopher D. Frieman, Joshua A. Melo, Alejandra Morishita, Takahiro Mozumdar, Pritom Sluse, Dominique Stiavelli, Massimo Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Spatially resolved stellar kinematics has become a key ingredient in time-delay cosmography to break the mass-sheet degeneracy in the mass profile and in turn provide a precise constraint on the Hubble constant and other cosmological parameters. In this paper, we present the first measurements of 2D resolved stellar kinematics for the lens galaxy in the quadruply lensed quasar system RXJ1131$-$1231 using integral field spectroscopy from JWST's Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), marking the first such measurement conducted with JWST. In extracting robust kinematic measurements from this first-of-its-kind dataset, we have made methodological improvements both in the data reduction and kinematic extraction. In our kinematic extraction procedure, we performed joint modeling of the lens galaxy, the quasar, and its host galaxy's contributions in the spectra to deblend the lens galaxy component and robustly constrain its stellar kinematics. Our improved methodological frameworks are released as software pipelines for future use: squirrel, for extracting stellar kinematics, and RegalJumper, for JWST-NIRSpec data reduction. We incorporated additional artifact cleaning beyond the standard JWST pipeline. We compared our measured stellar kinematics from the JWST NIRSpec with previously obtained ground-based measurements from the Keck Cosmic Web Imager integral field unit and find that the two datasets are statistically consistent at a $\sim$1.1$σ$ confidence level. Our measured kinematics will be used in a future study to improve the precision of the Hubble constant measurement. |
| title | TDCOSMO XXIV. First spatially resolved kinematics of the lens galaxy obtained using JWST-NIRSpec to improve time-delay cosmography |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21665 |