Hubble Imaging Excludes Cosmic String Lens

Details Hubble Imaging Excludes Cosmic String Lens Hubble Imaging Excludes Cosmic String Lens

2006-03-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603838v3

Phys.Rev. D73 (2006) 087302

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

3 pages, 2 figures. Higher quality versions of figures are available online. Bibliography modified. Accepted as a brief report

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.73.087302

The galaxy image pair CSL-1 has been a leading candidate for a cosmic string lens. High quality imaging data from the Hubble Space Telescope presented here show that it is not a lens but a pair of galaxies. The galaxies show different orientations of their principal axes, not consistent with any lens model. We present a new direct test of the straight-string lens model, using a displaced difference of the image from itself to exclude CSL-1 at high confidence.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Hubble Imaging Excludes Cosmic String Lens does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Hubble Imaging Excludes Cosmic String Lens, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Hubble Imaging Excludes Cosmic String Lens will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-331892