Table 1 Properties of low-mass perturber \({\mathcal{V}}\) inferred from the fully parametric analysis and their 1σ uncertainties

From: A million-solar-mass object detected at a cosmological distance using gravitational imaging

Profile \(\boldsymbol{\mathcal{A}}\)

Profile \(\boldsymbol{\mathcal{V}}\)

\({\mathbf\Delta}{\mathbf{log}}\boldsymbol{\mathcal{E}}\)

\({\mathbf{m}}_{\mathbf{80},{\boldsymbol{\mathcal{V}}}}\) (106M)

\({\mathbf{m}}_{\mathbf{{tot}},{\boldsymbol{\mathcal{V}}}}\) (106M)

\({\mathbf{r}}_{\mathbf{t},{\boldsymbol{\mathcal{V}}}}\) (pc)

PJ_tidal

PJ_free

364

1.13 ± 0.04

2.82 ± 0.26

149 ± 18

PJ_free

PJ_free

364

1.14 ± 0.03

2.78 ± 0.23

145 ± 17

NFW_sub

PJ_free

362

1.13 ± 0.03

2.81 ± 0.25

150 ± 18

PJ_tidal

PJ_tidal

348

1.07 ± 0.04

1.54 ± 0.07

53 ± 1

None

PJ_free

343

1.10 ± 0.04

2.41 ± 0.23

123 ± 18

PJ_tidal

None

16

PJ_free

None

16

NFW_sub

None

13

None

None

≡ 0

  1. The variable\({\mathcal{V}}\) was fixed to the lens redshift zl = 0.881 in this work. The tidal radius rt of \({\mathcal{V}}=\) PJ_tidal was derived from the lens and perturber masses and positions and was not a free parameter.