Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-11-16
Astrophys.J. 623 (2005) 31-41
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
17 pages, 5 figures, accepted by ApJ on 17/12/05. This version corrects various typos
Scientific paper
10.1086/428340
We measure the mass density profile of the lens galaxy in the Einstein ring system 0047-2808 using our semi-linear inversion method developed in an earlier paper. By introducing an adaptively gridded source plane, we are able to eliminate the need for regularisation of the inversion. This removes the problem of a poorly defined number of degrees of freedom, encountered by inversion methods that employ regularisation, and so allows a proper statistical comparison between models. We confirm the results of Wayth et al. (2004), that the source is double, and that a power-law model gives a significantly better fit that the singular isothermal ellipsoid model. We measure a slope alpha=2.11+/-0.04. We find, further, that a dual-component constant M/L baryonic + dark halo model gives a significantly better fit than the power-law model, at the 99.7% confidence level. The inner logarithmic slope of the dark halo profile is found to be 0.87^{+0.69}_{-0.61} (95% CL), consistent with the predictions of CDM simulations of structure formation. We determine an unevolved B-band mass to light ratio for the baryons (only) of 3.05^{+0.53}_{-0.90} h_65 M_sol/L_Bsol (95% CL). This is the first measurement of the baryonic M/L of a single galaxy by purely gravitational lens methods. The baryons account for 65^{+10}_{-18}% (95% CL) of the total projected mass, or, assuming spherical symmetry, 84^{+12}_{-24}% (95% CL) of the total three-dimensional mass within the mean radius of 1.16'' (7.5 h_65^{-1} kpc) traced by the ring. Finally, at the level of >3sigma, we find that the halo mass is rounder than the baryonic distribution and that the two components are offset in orientation from one another.
Dye Simon
Warren Steve
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