Gravitational Lensing Signature of Long Cosmic Strings

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.79.1968MaRDI QIDQ4492457zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Andrew A. de Laix, Tanmay Vachaspati, Lawrence M. Krauss

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9702033, http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v79/p1968, http://cds.cern.ch/record/319615

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The gravitational lensing by long, wiggly cosmic strings is shown to produce a large number of lensed images of a background source. In addition to pairs of images on either side of the string, a number of small images outline the string due to small-scale structure on the string. This image pattern could provide a highly distinctive signature of cosmic strings. Since the optical depth for multiple imaging of distant quasar sources by long strings may be comparable to that by galaxies, these image patterns should be clearly observable in the next generation of redshift surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

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