Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-05-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
18 pages, 4 figures, ApJ, in press
Scientific paper
10.1086/304712
Gravitational lensing of an optical QSO by a spiral galaxy is often counteracted by dust obscuration, since the line-of-sight to the QSO passes close to the center of the galactic disk. The dust in the lens is likely to be correlated with neutral hydrogen, which in turn should leave a Lyman-alpha absorption signature on the QSO spectrum. We use the estimated dust-to-gas ratio of the Milky-Way galaxy as a mean and allow a spread in its values to calculate the effects of dust on lensing by low redshift spiral galaxies. Using a no-evolution model for spirals at z<1 we find (in Lambda=0 cosmologies) that the magnification bias due to lensing is stronger than dust obscuration for QSO samples with a magnitude limit B<16. The density parameter of neutral hydrogen, Omega_HI, is overestimated in such samples and is underestimated for fainter QSOs.
Bartelmann Matthias
Loeb Abraham
Perna Rosalba
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