Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-03-09
Astrophys.J.633:23-28,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, 7 EPS files. An assessment of our assumption of constancy in shear and convergence has been included. Version accepte
Scientific paper
10.1086/452623
The cold dark matter (CDM) structure formation model predicts that about 5-10 percent of a typical galactic halo of mass $\sim 10^{12} \ms$ is in substructures with masses $\lesssim 10^8 \ms$. To directly detect such substructures, we propose to observe dust continuum emission from a strongly lensed QSO-host galaxy using a large submillimeter interferometer array with a high angular resolution of $\sim 0.01$arcsec such as the planned Atacama Large Submillimeter Array (ALMA). To assess their observational feasibility, we numerically simulate millilensing of an extended circular source by a CDM substructure modeled as a tidally truncated singular isothermal sphere (SIS) embedded in a typical QSO-galaxy lens system, B1422+231, modeled as a singular isothermal ellipsoid (SIE) with an external constant shear and a constant convergence. Assuming an angular resolution of 0.01arcsec, we find that the angular positions of $\sim 10^8 \ms$ substructures at several kpc from the center of the macrolens halo can be directly measured if the size of the dust continuum emission region and the gradient of the surface brightness at the position of the perturber are sufficiently large. From the astrometric shift on a scale of a few times $10~$mas of an image perturbed by a subhalo with respect to an unperturbed macrolensed image, we can break the degeneracy between subhalo mass and distance provided that macrolensing parameters are determined from positions and fluxes of multiple images.
Chiba Masashi
Taro Inoue Kaiki
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