Limits on Cosmological Models From Radio-Selected Gravitational Lenses

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1997-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9707032v1

Astrophys.J. 494 (1998) 47-59

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

33 pp, 8 .ps figs, submitted to ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/305207

We are conducting a redshift survey of 177 flat-spectrum radio sources in 3 samples covering the 5GHz flux ranges 50-100, 100-200 and 200-250 mJy. So far, we have measured 124 redshifts with completenesses of 80%, 68% and 58% for the bright, intermediate, and faint flux ranges. Using the newly determined redshift distribution we can derive cosmological limits from the statistics of the 6 gravitational lenses in the JVAS sample of 2500 flat-spectrum radio sources brighter than 200 mJy at 5GHz. For flat cosmological models with a cosmological constant, the limit using only radio data is Omega_0 > 0.27 at 2-sigma (0.47 < Omega_0 < 1.38 at 1-sigma). The limits are statistically consistent with those for lensed quasars, and the combined radio + optical sample requires Omega_0 > 0.38 at 2-sigma (0.64 < Omega_0 < 1.66 at 1-sigma) for our most conservative redshift completeness model and assuming that there are no quasar lenses produced by spiral galaxies. Our best fit model improves by approximately 1-sigma if extinction in the early-type galaxies makes the lensed quasars fainter by Delta m = 0.58 +- 0.45 mag, but we still find a limit of Omega_0 > 0.26 at 2-sigma in flat cosmologies. The increasing fraction of radio galaxies as compared to quasars at fainter radio fluxes (rising from ~10% at 1 Jy to ~50% at 0.1 Jy) explains why lensed optical emission is common for radio lenses and partly explains the red color of radio-selected lenses.

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