Identifying Optical Einstein Rings

Autor: S. J. Warren, P. C. Hewett, G. F. Lewis, P. Møller, A. Iovino, P. A. Shaver
Rok vydání: 1996
Zdroj: Symposium - International Astronomical Union. 173:329-334
ISSN: 0074-1809
DOI: 10.1017/s0074180900231690
Popis: The discovery of gravitationally lensed radio-rings (Hewitt et al. 1988) opened up a new line of attack on the problem of dark matter in galaxies. High–resolution radio observations (Langston et al. 1989) resolve structure tangentially and radially within the rings, providing sophisticated analysis routines (Kochanek & Narayan 1992, Wallington, Narayan & Kochanek 1994) with enough constraints to compute realistic models of the mass distribution within the deflectors (Kochanek 1995). Five such systems are now known and extensive programs to identify further examples are underway.
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