An observational constraint on gravitational lensing by objects of mass 10^(9.5) - 10^(10.9) Mo

Details An observational constraint on gravitational lensing by objects of mass 10^(9.5) - 10^(10.9) Mo An observational constraint on gravitational lensing by objects of mass 10^(9.5) - 10^(10.9) Mo

2000-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0011569v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 320 (2000) L40-L44

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS (Letters) 5 pages, 2 Figures

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04231.x

A radio-based search for strong gravitational lensing, with image separations in the range 160-300 milliarcsec (mas), has yielded a null result for a sample of 1665 sources (Augusto, Wilkinson & Browne 1998) whose mean redshift is estimated to be ~1.3. The lensing rate for this previously-unexplored separation range, <1:555 at the 95% confidence level, is less than on arcsecond-scales - as expected from models of lensing galaxy populations. Lensing on 160-300 mas scales is expected to arise predominantly from spiral galaxies at a rate dependent on the disk-halo mass ratio and the evolving number density of the population with redshift. While the present sample is too small for there to be a high probability of finding spiral galaxy lenses, our work is a pilot survey for a much larger search based on the full CLASS database which would provide useful information on galactic structure at z~0.5. We examine other possible lens populations relevant to our present search, in particular dwarf galaxies and supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei, and conclude that none of them are likely to be detected. Our null result enables us formally to rule out a cosmologically significant population of uniformly-distributed compact objects: Omega (CO)<0.1 (95% confidence) in the mass range 10^(9.5) - 10^(10.9) Mo.

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