Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-06-29
Astrophys.J.490:31,1997
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
21 pages, uses aastex, ApJ in press
Scientific paper
10.1086/304837
The theoretically expected amplitude of the associations of background quasars with foreground galaxies as a result of gravitational lensing has been updated in this paper. Since the galactic matter alone yields an amplitude of quasar overdensity smaller than that observed, a special attention has been paid to the examination or re-examination of the uncertainties in the estimate of the quasar enhancement factor arising from the cosmic evolution of galaxies, the core radius and velocity bias of galactic matter distributions, the clusters of galaxies, the obstruction effect by galactic disks, the non-zero cosmological constant, etc. Unfortunately, none of these factors has been shown to be able to significantly improve the situation, although a combination of some effects may provide a result that marginally agrees with observations. It is concluded that the quasar-galaxy association still remains to be an unsolved puzzle in today's astronomy, if the reported quasar-galaxy associations are not due to the statistical variations and/or the observed quasar number counts as a whole have not been seriously contaminated by gravitational lensing.
Fang Li-zhi
Wu Xiang-Ping
Zhu Zong-Hong
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