• Title/Summary/Keyword: Gravitational lensing

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QUADRUPLY-IMAGED QUASARS: SOME GENERAL FEATURES

  • Tuan-Anh, P.;Thai, T.T.;Tuan, N.A.;Darriulat, P.;Diep, P.N.;Hoai, D.T.;Ngoc, N.B.;Nhung, P.T.;Phuong, N.T.
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제53권6호
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    • pp.149-159
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    • 2020
  • Gravitational lensing of point sources located inside the lens caustic is known to produce four images in a configuration closely related to the source position. We study this relation in the particular case of a sample of quadruply-imaged quasars observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Strong correlations between the parameters defining the image configuration are revealed. The relation between the image configuration and the source position is studied. Some simple features of the selected data sample are exposed and commented upon. In particular, evidence is found for the selected sample to be biased in favor of large magnification systems. While having no direct impact on practical analyses of specific systems, our results have pedagogical value and deepen our understanding of the mechanism of gravitational lensing.

THE IMAGE CONFIGURATION OF MICRO LENSING WITH AN EXTENDED SOURCE

  • Chang, Kyong-Ae
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제21권2호
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    • pp.97-104
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    • 1988
  • This study presents the specific rule governing the image configurations of an extended source for micro lensing of the two body gravitational lens system developed by Chang and Refsdal (1979). Various topological situations of a source are considered in relation to the regions bounded by the so-called critical curves.

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다상 준항성 중력렌즈의 우주론적 응용 (COSMOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF MULTIPLE-IMAGE GRAVITATIONALLY LENSED QUASARS)

  • 박명구
    • 천문학논총
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    • 제22권1호
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    • pp.1-20
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    • 2007
  • Quasars at cosmological distances can be gravitationally lensed by galaxies into two or more images. The probability of this lensing and the angular separation between the images depend on the geometry and the expansion history of the universe as well as the lensing galaxies. The time delay between lensed images is also a direct indicator of the size of the universe. I review these cosmological applications of multiple-image gravitationally lensed quasars to determine or constrain the cosmological parameters.

A Visualization Method of Gravitational Lensing by Gravitational Sources in Three Dimensional Space

  • Shinotsuka, Satsuki;Makino, Mitsunori
    • 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한전자공학회 2000년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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    • pp.1092-1095
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    • 2000
  • Computer graphics(CG) is one of the most useful tools by which we can easily understand visible/invisible natural phenomena. Namely, phenomena in the universe is attractive one because of its beauty and invisibility on the earth. For gravitational tensing phenomena, a ray tracing algorithm is proposed based on a lens-plane. In the method, position of gravitational sources is restricted. In this paper an improved visualization method is proposed, which can represent more complex situation than the previous method.

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Weak Lensing Analysis of the Two High-z Massive Clusters, SPT-CL J0205-5829 and MOO1014+0038, with HST Observations

  • Kim, Seojin F.;Jee, Myungkook J.
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제42권2호
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    • pp.41.3-42
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    • 2017
  • The mass function of massive high-z clusters is extremely sensitive to the cosmological parameters. However, it is challenging to estimate their accurate masses. The "See Change" HST programme offers a rare opportunity to measure them using weak gravitational lensing. In this talk, we study SPT-CL J0205-5829 (z=1.322) and MOO1014+0038 (z=1.24) discovered in the SPT-SZ survey and MaDCoW Survey, respectively. We perform weak lensing analysis with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) images by carefully taking into account the instrumental effect. We successfully detect weak lensing signals which produce cluster masses consistent with those from non-lensing methods based on hydrostatic equilibrium.

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Testing Gravitational Weak-lensing Maps with Galaxy Redshift Surveys: preliminary results

  • Ko, Jongwan;Utsumi, Yousuke;Hwang, Ho Seong;Dell'Antonio, Ian P.;Geller, Margaret J.;Yang, Soung-Chul;Kyeong, Jaemann
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제39권2호
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    • pp.45.2-45.2
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    • 2014
  • To measure the mass distribution of galaxy systems weak-lensing analysis has been widely used because it directly measures the total mass of a system regardless of its baryon content and dynamical state. However, the weak-lensing only provides a map of projected surface mass density. On the other hand, galaxy redshift surveys provide a map of the three-dimensional galaxy distribution. It thus can resolve the structures along the line of sight projected in the weak-lensing map. Therefore, the comparison of structures identified in the weak-lensing maps and in the redshift surveys is an important test of the issues limiting applications of weak-lensing to the identification of galaxy clusters. Geller et al. (2010) and Kurtz et al. (2012) compared massive clusters identified in a dense redshift survey with significant weak-lensing map convergence peaks. Both assessments of the efficiency of weak-lensing map for cluster identification did not draw a general conclusion, because the sample is so small. Thus, we additionally perform deep imaging observations of fields in a dense galaxy redshift survey that contain galaxy clusters at z~0.2-0.5, using CFHT Megacam.

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