The Effects of Massive Substructures on Image Multiplicities in Gravitati onal Lenses

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2003-06-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306171v2

Astrophys.J. 608 (2004) 25-35

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

23 pages, 7 figures, more discussion of sis vs sie and inclusion of uncorrelated contributions

Scientific paper

10.1086/392491

Surveys for gravitational lens systems have typically found a significantly larger fraction of lenses with four (or more) images than are predicted by standard ellipsoidal lens models (50% versus 25-30%). We show that including the effects of smaller satellite galaxies, with an abundance normalized by the observations, significantly increases the expected number of systems with more than two images and largely explains the discrepancy. The effect is dominated by satellites with ~20% the luminosity of the primary lens, in rough agreement with the typical luminosities of the observed satellites. We find that the lens systems with satellites cannot, however, be dropped from estimates of the cosmological model based on gravitational lens statistics without significantly biasing the results.

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