Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-09-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
19 pages, 1 figure, uses aasms4.sty, submitted to ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/308878
The frequency with which background galaxies appear as long arcs as a result of gravitational lensing by foreground clusters of galaxies has recently been found to be a very sensitive probe of cosmological models by Bartelmann et al. (1998). They have found that such arcs would be expected far less frequently than observed (by an order of magnitude) in the currently favored model for the universe, with a large cosmological constant $\Omega_\Lambda \sim 0.7$. Here we analyze whether including the effect of cluster galaxies on the likelihood of clusters to generate long-arc images of background galaxies can change the statistics. Taking into account a variety of constraints on the properties of cluster galaxies, we find that there are not enough sufficiently massive galaxies in a cluster for them to significantly enhance the cross section of clusters to generate long arcs. We find that cluster galaxies typically enhance the cross section by only $\lesssim 15%$.
Flores Ricardo A.
Maller Ariyeh H.
Primack Joel R.
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