Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-03-28
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 305 (1999) 746
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, AASTeX, 4 figures
Scientific paper
The dispersion in the peak luminosities of high redshift type Ia supernovae will change with redshift due to gravitational lensing. This lensing is investigated with an emphasis on the prospects of measuring it and separating it from other possible sources of redshift dependent dispersion. Measuring the lensing induced dispersion would directly constrain the power spectrum of density fluctuations on smaller length scales than are easily probed in any other way. The skew of the magnification distribution is related to the bispectrum of density fluctuations. Using cold dark matter models it is found that the amount and quality of data needed is attainable in a few years. A parameterization of the signal as a power law of the angular size distance to the supernovae is motivated by these models. This information can be used in detecting lensing, detecting other systematic changes in supernovae and calculating the uncertainties in cosmological parameter estimates.
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