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Is the Giant Luminous Arc in A370 a Gravitational Lensing Effect?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Y. Mellier*
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Toulouse, 14, avenue E. Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France

Abstract

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A gravitational lensing model is proposed to explain the giant arc structure we observed in September 1985 in the distant cluster of galaxies Abell 370 (z=0.37.4).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988 

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