A Mock Catalog of Gravitationally Lensed Quasars for the LSST Survey

Abstract

We present a mock catalog of gravitationally lensed quasars at $z_{\text{qso}}<7.5$ with simulated images for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). We adopt recent measurements of quasar luminosity functions to model the quasar population, and use the CosmoDC2 mock galaxy catalog to model the deflector galaxies, which successfully reproduces the observed galaxy velocity dispersion functions up to $z_d\sim 1.5$. The mock catalog is highly complete for lensed quasars with Einstein radius $θ_E>0\farcs07$ and quasar absolute magnitude $M_i<-20$. We estimate that there are $\sim 10^3$ lensed quasars discoverable in current imaging surveys, and LSST will increase this number to $\sim 2.4\times 10^3$. Most of the lensed quasars have image separation $Δθ>0\farcs5$, which will at least be marginally resolved in LSST images with seeing of $\sim0\farcs7$. There will be $\sim 200$ quadruply-lensed quasars discoverable in the LSST. The fraction of quad lenses among all discoverable lensed quasars is about $\sim 10\%-15\%$, and this fraction decreases with survey depth. This mock catalog shows a large diversity in the observational features of lensed quasars, in terms of lensing separation and quasar-to-deflector flux ratio. We discuss possible strategies for a complete search of lensed quasars in the LSST era.

18 pages, 12 figures, accepted by AJ, comments welcomed

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