Optical rings - A large number of gravitational lenses?

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Dec 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992mnras.259p..31m&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 259, no. 3, p. 31P-34P.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Gravitational Lenses, Light (Visible Radiation), Rings, Radio Astronomy, Visual Observation

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We propose that a large number of gravitationally lensed rings should be observable in the optical. We argue that the probability of forming a ring is likely to be similar for optical and radio sources. The number of optical rings in the sky can then be estimated from the rate of occurrence of rings in radio sources, and the observed number of optical sources. This gives about 100 optical rings per square degree, or a few million over the whole sky, to a magnitude limit of B = 26. Most of the rings should be substantially bluer than the foreground lenses, allowing them to be detected with multicolor imaging. The discovery of optical rings could reveal a large number of new lensing systems, studies of which could investigate the mass distribution in the lenses, the structure of the background sources, and time delays if the background galaxy contains an active nucleus or supernovae.

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