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The Magnificent Five Images of Supernova Refsdal: Time Delay and Magnification Measurements

  • Authors: Patrick L. Kelly, Steven Rodney, Tommaso Treu, Simon Birrer, Vivien Bonvin, Luc Dessart, Ryan J. Foley, Alexei V. Filippenko, Daniel Gilman, Saurabh Jha, Jens Hjorth, Kaisey Mandel, Martin Millon, Justin Pierel, Stephen Thorp, Adi Zitrin, Tom Broadhurst, Wenlei Chen, Jose M. Diego, Alan Dressler, Or Graur, Mathilde Jauzac, Matthew A. Malkan, Curtis McCully, Masamune Oguri, Marc Postman, Kasper Borello Schmidt, Keren Sharon, Brad E. Tucker, Anja von der Linden, Joachim Wambsganss

Patrick L. Kelly et al 2023 The Astrophysical Journal 948 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

Inferred SEDs of three separate underlying components at the positions of the images of SN Refsdal. Measured flux densities are shown relative to the F160W band. The BCG+ICL are shown as red squares, the early-type galaxy that lenses the SN images S1–S4 are black triangles, and the background flux density that accounts for the SN Refsdal host galaxy are blue circles. All flux densities were measured using GALFIT (Peng et al. 2002) modeling, treating the BCG+ICL as a single Sérsic profile and the elliptical galaxy lens as a separate Sérsic profile. The light from the SN Refsdal host galaxy (the background spiral) is accounted for as a background flux level above the uniform sky brightness. Photometry is corrected for foreground Milky Way extinction using Schlafly & Finkbeiner (2011). Measurement uncertainties are shown but are smaller than the size of the points. See the main text for further details of the fitting procedure.

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