Gravitational lensing frequencies - Galaxy cross-sections and selection effects

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Nov 1991

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 253, Nov. 1, 1991, p. 99-106.

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Cosmology, Galaxies, Gravitational Lenses, Quasars, Universe, Astronomical Models, Galactic Mass, Luminosity, Mass Distribution

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Four issues - (1) the best currently available data on the galaxy velocity-dispersion distribution, (2) the effects of finite core radii potential ellipticity on lensing cross sections, (3) the predicted distribution of lens image separations compared to observational angular resolutions, and (4) the preferential inclusion of lens systems in flux limited samples - are considered in order to facilitate more realistic predictions of multiple image galaxy-quasar lensing frequencies. It is found that (1) the SIS lensing parameter F equals 0.047 +/-0.019 with almost 90 percent contributed by E and S0 galaxies, (2) observed E and S0 core radii are remarkably small, yielding a factor of less than about 2 reduction in total lensing cross sections, (3) 50 percent of galaxy-quasar lenses have image separations greater than about 1.3 arcsec, and (4) amplification bias factors are large and must be carefully taken into account. It is concluded that flat universe models excessively dominated by the cosmological constant are not favored by the small observed galaxy-quasar lensing rate.

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