Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-01-17
New Astron.Rev. 49 (2005) 387-391
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 4 figures. To appear in the conference proceedings of "Wide Field Imaging from Space" (published in New Astronomy Rev
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.newar.2005.08.009
Basic considerations of lens detection and identification indicate that a wide field survey of the types planned for weak lensing and Type Ia SNe with SNAP are close to optimal for the optical detection of strong lenses. Such a ``piggy-back'' survey might be expected even pessimistically to provide a catalogue of a few thousand new strong lenses, with the numbers dominated by systems of faint blue galaxies lensed by foreground ellipticals. After sketching out our strategy for detecting and measuring these galaxy lenses using the SNAP images, we discuss some of the scientific applications of such a large sample of gravitational lenses: in particular we comment on the partition of information between lens structure, the source population properties and cosmology. Understanding this partitioning is key to assessing strong lens cosmography's value as a cosmological probe.
Blandford Roger
Marshall Phil
Sako Masao
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