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Testing Cosmogonic Models With Gravitational Lensing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Joachim Wambsganss
Affiliation:
Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
Renyue Cen
Affiliation:
Princeton University Observatory, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Affiliation:
Princeton University Observatory, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
Edwin L. Turner
Affiliation:
Princeton University Observatory, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

Abstract

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Gravitational lensing provides a strict test of cosmogonic models. We use fully non-linear numerical propagation of light rays through a model universe with inhomogeneities derived from a particular cosmogonic model, i.e. three-dimensional lensing simulations, to study its lensing properties. As a first example we present results for the standard CDM scenario. The lensing test for this model predicts that we should have seen far more widely split quasar images than have been found.

Type
Chapter 3: Large Scale Structure
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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