Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-02-20
Astrophys.J. 489 (1997) 476
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
21 pages, 4 figures, AASTeX4
Scientific paper
10.1086/304810
In a flat, k=0 cosmology with galaxies that approximate singular isothermal spheres, gravitational lens image separations should be uncorrelated with source redshift. But in an open k=-1 cosmology such gravitational lens image separations become smaller with increasing source redshift. The observed separations do become smaller with increasing source redshift but the effect is even stronger than that expected in an Omega=0 cosmology. The observations are thus not compatible with the "standard" gravitational lensing statistics model in a flat universe. We try various open and flat cosmologies, galaxy mass profiles, galaxy merging and evolution models, and lensing aided by clusters to explain the correlation. We find the data is not compatible with any of these possibilities within the 95% confidence limit, leaving us with a puzzle. If we regard the observed result as a statistical fluke, it is worth noting that we are about twice as likely to observe it in an open universe (with 0
Gott III Richard J.
Park Myeong-Gu
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