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Gravitational Lensing in the Metric Theory Proposed by Sobouti

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2008

T. Bernal*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, México
S. Mendoza
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, México
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Abstract

We have made evaluations of the α parameter used in the metric theory f(R) proposed by Sobouti (2007), adjusting the theory to X-ray observations of 13 clusters of galaxies with gravitational lensing.

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Research Article
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© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2008

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