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Lensing Limits On the Cosmological Constant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Hans-Walter Rix
Hans-Walter Rix*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Postfach 1523, D-85740 Garching, Germany

Abstract

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The statistics of gravitationally lensed quasars requires that λ < 0.7 at 90% confidence. This limit is weakly affected by the evolution of galaxies through merging. If E/S0 galaxies have much higher dust opacities at redshifts of 0.5-1.0 than they do locally, these limits can be evaded.

Type
Chapter 1: Classical Cosmology
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 173: Astrophysical Applications of Gravitational Lensing , 1996 , pp. 1 - 6
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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