How to Break the Mass Sheet Degeneracy with the Lightcurves of Microlensed Type Ia Supernovae
arxiv(2024)
摘要
The standardizable nature of gravitationally lensed Type Ia supernovae (glSNe
Ia) makes them an attractive target for time delay cosmography, since a source
with known luminosity breaks the mass sheet degeneracy. It is known that
microlensing by stars in the lensing galaxy can add significant stochastic
uncertainty to the unlensed luminosity which is often much larger than the
intrinsic scatter of the Ia population. In this work, we show how the temporal
microlensing variations as the supernova disc expands can be used to improve
the standardization of glSNe Ia. We find that SNe are standardizable if they do
not cross caustics as they expand. We estimate that this will be the case for
≈6 doubly imaged systems and ≈0.3 quadruply imaged systems per
year in LSST. At the end of the ten year LSST survey, these systems should
enable us to test for systematics in H_0 due to the mass sheet degeneracy at
the 1.00^+0.07_-0.06% level, or 1.8±0.2% if we can only extract
time delays from the third of systems with counter images brighter than i=24
mag.
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