Macrolensing signatures of large-scale violations of the weak energy condition

Details Macrolensing signatures of large-scale violations of the weak energy condition Macrolensing signatures of large-scale violations of the weak energy condition

2001-04-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104075v1

Mod.Phys.Lett.A16:153-162,2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages with 9 Postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0217732301003188

We present a set of simulations of the macrolensing effects produced by large-scale cosmological violations of the energy conditions. These simulations show how the appearance of a background field of galaxies is affected when lensed by a region with an energy density equivalent to a negative mass ranging from $10^{12}$ to $10^{17}$ solar masses. We compare with the macrolensing results of equal amounts of positive mass, and show that, contrary to the usual case where tangential arc-like structures are expected, there appear radial arcs-runaway filaments-and a central void. These results make the cosmological macrolensing produced by space-time domains where the weak energy conditions is violated, observationally distinguishable from standard regions. Whether large domains with negative energy density indeed exist in the universe can now be decided by future observations of deep fields.

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