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Gravitational lenses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
Abstract
In approximately half the systems currently recognized as strongly gravitationally lensed, the background object is an extragalactic radio source. Radio observations have played an important role in the identification of lensed systems, and the properties of radio sources allow some of the astrophysical applications of lensing to be realized. High redshift galaxies can be studied through lens modeling and by observing more than one ray path through the lens. The morphological, spectral, and polarization information of high resolution radio images provides strong constraints on the mass distribution in the lensing galaxies. On cosmological scales, radio variability has been applied to the time delay measurement of angular diameter distance.
- Type
- Properties of Radio Sources
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 175: Extragalactic Radio Sources , 1996 , pp. 105 - 110
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1996