Globular Clusters as Candidates for Gravitational Lenses to Explain Quasar-Galaxy Associations

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2003-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304207v1

Astron.Lett. 29 (2003) 214-223

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

22 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1134/1.1564852

We argue that globular clusters (GCs) are good candidates for gravitational lenses in explaining quasar-galaxy associations. The catalog of associations (Bukhmastova 2001) compiled from the LEDA catalog of galaxies (Paturel 1997) and from the catalog of quasars (Veron-Cetty and Veron 1998) is used. Based on the new catalog containing 8382 pairs, we show that one might expect an increased number of GCs around irregular galaxies of types 9 and 10 from the hypothesis that distant compact sources are gravitationally lensed by GCs in the halos of foreground galaxies. The King model is used to determine the central surface densities of 135 GCs in the Milky Way. The distribution of GCs in central surface density was found to be lognormal.

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