On the accuracy of time-delay cosmography in the Frontier Fields Cluster MACS J1149.5+2223 with supernova Refsdal

Abstract

We study possible systematic effects on the values of the cosmological parameters measured through strong lensing analyses of the HFF galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223. We use the observed positions of a large set of spectroscopically selected multiple images, including those of supernova "Refsdal" with their estimated time delays. Starting from our reference model in a flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmology, published in Grillo et al. (2018), we confirm the relevance of the longest measurable time delay, between SX and S1, and an approximately linear relation between its value and that of $H_0$. We perform true blind tests by considering a range of time delays around its original estimate of $345\pm 10$ days, as an accurate measurement of this time delay was not known at the time of analysis and writing. We investigate separately the impact of a constant sheet of mass at the cluster redshift, of a power-law profile for the mass density of the cluster main halo and of some scatter in the cluster member scaling relations. Remarkably, we find that these systematic effects do not introduce a significant bias on the inferred values of $H_0$ and ${\Omega }_{\mathrm{m}}$ and that the statistical uncertainties dominate the total error budget: a 3% uncertainty on the time delay of image SX translates into approximately 6% and 40% (including both statistical and systematic $1\sigma$) uncertainties for $H_0$ and ${\Omega }_{\mathrm{m}}$, respectively. Furthermore, our model accurately reproduces the extended surface brightness distribution of the supernova host, covering more than $3\times 10^4$ $HST$ pixels. We also present the interesting possibility of measuring the value of the equation-of-state parameter $w$ of the dark energy density, currently with a 30% uncertainty. We conclude that time-delay cluster lenses have the potential to become soon an alternative and competitive cosmological probe.

10 pages, 8 figures, 1 table; ApJ in press (all main results and figures unchanged, only minor changes during revision)

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