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Do Lensing Statistics Rule out a Cosmological Constant?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

M. Chiba
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory, JAPAN
Y. Yoshii
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, University of Tokyo, JAPAN

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We present new calculations of the gravitational lensing statistics following recent revised knowledge of the luminosity function and internal velocity dispersion of E/S0 galaxies which work as effective lenses for background high-redshift QSOs. We show that the theoretical prediction of the lensing statistics is much smaller than previously expected. In sharp contrast with the earlier statistics supporting an Ω0 = 1 universe, the reported small lensing probability from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) snapshot lens survey is in best agreement with a low-density, flat universe with Ω0 ≃ 0.2 and Ω0 + λ0 = 1. The age of this universe, combined with the HST measurement of a high value of the Hubble constant H0, can be reconciled with the age of the oldest globular clusters in the Milky Way (ApJ, 1997, Vol. 489, in press).

Type
I. Cosmological Parameters, H0, q0, Ω0 and Λ
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1999