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Gravitational lenses in hydrodynamical simulations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2024

Giulia Despali Open the ORCID record for Giulia Despali [Opens in a new window] ,
Felix M. Heinze  and
Claudio Mastromarino
Giulia Despali*
Affiliation:
Alma Mater Studiorum - Universitá di Bologna, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Augusto Righi”, Via Gobetti 93/2, Bologna, Italy INAF - Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna, via Gobetti 93/3, I-40129, Bologna, Italy
Felix M. Heinze
Affiliation:
Universität Heidelberg, Zentrum für Astronomie, Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Albert-Ueberle-Straße 2, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Claudio Mastromarino
Affiliation:
Universitá degli studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 1, 00133, Roma, Italy INFN-Sezione di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 1, 00133, Roma, Italy
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email: giulia.despali@unibo.it
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Abstract

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The gravitational lensing signal produced by a galaxy or a galaxy cluster is determined by its total matter distribution, providing us with a way to directly constrain their dark matter content. State-of-the-art numerical simulations successfully reproduce many observed properties of galaxies and can be used as a source of mock observations and predictions. Many gravitational lensing studies aim at constraining the nature of dark matter, discriminating between cold dark matter and alternative models. However, many past results are based on the comparison to simulations that did not include baryonic physics. Here we show that the presence of baryons can significantly alter the predictions: we look at the structural properties (profiles and shapes) of elliptical galaxies and at the inner density slope of subhaloes. Our results demonstrate that future simulations must model the interplay between baryons and alternative dark matter, to generate realistic predictions that could significantly modify the current constraints.

Keywords

strong lensingcosmologydark matternumerical simulations
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 18 , Symposium S381: Strong Gravitational Lensing in the Era of Big Data , December 2022 , pp. 41 - 45
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