Radial distribution and strong lensing statistics of satellite galaxies and substructure using high-resolution ΛCDM hydrodynamical simulations     

Andrea V. Macciò  Ben Moore  Joachim Stadel  Jürg Diemand 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,366(4):1529-1538

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The polarization signature from microlensing of circumstellar envelopes in caustic crossing events     

R. Ignace  J. E. Bjorkman  H. M. Bryce 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,366(1):92-100

In recent years, it has been shown that microlensing is a powerful tool for examining the atmospheres of stars in the Galactic bulge and Magellanic Clouds. The high gradient of magnification across the source during both small impact parameter events and caustic crossings offers a unique opportunity for determining the surface brightness profile of the source. Furthermore, models indicate that these events can also provide an appreciable polarization signal: arising from differential magnification across the otherwise symmetric source. Earlier work has addressed the signal from a scattering photosphere for both point mass lenses and caustic crossings. In a previous paper, polarimetric variations from point lensing of a circumstellar envelope were considered, as would be suitable for an extended envelope around a red giant. In this work, we examine the polarization in the context of caustic crossing events, the scenario that represents the most easily accessible situation for actually observing a polarization signal in Galactic microlensing. Furthermore, we present an analysis of the effectiveness of using the polarimetric data to determine the envelope properties, illustrating the potential of employing polarimetry in addition to photometry and spectroscopy with microlensing follow-up campaigns.  相似文献   

The Shear Testing Programme – I. Weak lensing analysis of simulated ground-based observations     

Catherine Heymans  Ludovic Van Waerbeke  David Bacon  Joel Berge  Gary Bernstein  Emmanuel Bertin  Sarah Bridle  Michael L. Brown  Douglas Clowe  Håkon Dahle  Thomas Erben  Meghan Gray  Marco Hetterscheidt  Henk Hoekstra  Patrick Hudelot  Mike Jarvis  Konrad Kuijken  Vera Margoniner  Richard Massey  Yannick Mellier  Reiko Nakajima  Alexandre Refregier  Jason Rhodes  Tim Schrabback  David Wittman 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,368(3):1323-1339

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Cosmological Constant, Minimal Mass and Electroweak Interaction     

Corrado Massa 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2006,306(3):175-176

A lower bound for the mass of a rotating body is derived in the general relativity theory with positive cosmological term Λ. The bound suggests a neutrino rest mass ∼1 meV and a neutrino magnetic moment of 10⁻⁴¹ erg/gauss ∼ Planck's magnetic moment. A connection between gravity and electroweak interaction is suggested.  相似文献   

A Remark on Using Gravitational Lensing Probability as a Probe of the Central Regions of CDM Halos     

YunLiNational Astronomical Observatories  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Beijing 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2002,2(5):399-407

We calculate the gravitational lensing probabilities by cold dark matter (CDM) halos with different density profiles, and compare them with current observations from the Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey (CLASS) and the Jodrell-Bank VLA Astrometric Survey (JVAS). We find that the lensing probability is dramatically sensitive to the clumping of the dark matter, or quantitatively, the concentration parameter. We also find that our predicted lensing probabilities in most cases show inconsistency with the observations. It is argued that high lensing probability may not be an effective tool for probing the statistical properties of inner structures of dark matter halos.  相似文献   

Substructure and the cusp and fold relations     

Amir Babak Aazami  Priyamvada Natarajan 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,372(4):1692-1698

Gravitational lensing of a background source by a foreground galaxy lens occasionally produces four images of the source. The cusp and the fold relations impose conditions on the ratios of magnifications of these four-image lenses. In this theoretical investigation, we explore the sensitivity of these relations to the presence of substructure in the lens. Starting with a smooth lens potential, we add varying amounts of substructure, while keeping the source position fixed, and find that the fold relation is a more robust indicator of substructure than the cusp relation for the images. This robustness is independent of the detailed spatial distribution of the substructure, as well as of the ellipticity of the lensing potential and the presence of external shear.  相似文献   

Constraints on the velocity profiles of galaxies from strong lensing statistics and semi-analytical modelling of galaxy formation     

Kyu-Hyun Chae  Shude Mao  Xi Kang 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,373(4):1369-1378

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Contamination in the MACHO data set and the puzzle of Large Magellanic Cloud microlensing     

Kim Griest  Christian L. Thomas 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,359(2):464-468

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Short-period AM CVn systems as optical, X-ray and gravitational-wave sources   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

G. Nelemans  L. R. Yungelson  S. F. Portegies Zwart 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,349(1):181-192

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On statistical lensing and the anticorrelation between 2dF QSOs and foreground galaxies     

A. D. Myers  P. J. Outram  T. Shanks  B. J. Boyle  S. M. Croom  N. S. Loaring  L. Miller  R. J. Smith 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,359(2):741-754

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