Corrections for gravitational lensing of supernovae: better than average?

Details Corrections for gravitational lensing of supernovae: better than average? Corrections for gravitational lensing of supernovae: better than average?

2005-06-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0506764v2

Astrophys.J.640:417-427,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Matches accepted version, includes clarifications and additional issues. 28 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/499346

We investigate the possibility of correcting for the magnification due to gravitational lensing of standard candle sources, such as Type Ia supernovae. Our method uses the observed properties of the foreground galaxies along the lines-of-sight to each source and the accuracy of the lensing correction depends on the quality and depth of these observations as well as the uncertainties in translating the observed luminosities to the matter distribution in the lensing galaxies. The current work is limited to cases where the matter density is dominated by the individual galaxy halos. However, it is straightforward to generalize the method to include also gravitational lensing from cluster scale halos. We show that the dispersion due to lensing for a standard candle source at z=1.5 can be reduced from about 7% to ~< 3%, i.e. the magnification correction is useful in reducing the scatter in the Type Ia Hubble diagram, especially at high redshifts where the required long exposure times makes it hard to reach large statistics and the dispersion due to lensing becomes comparable to the intrinsic Type Ia scatter.

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