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通过强引力透镜效应直接观测宇宙弦:I.高分辨率成像测量的预测

Direct Observation of Cosmic Strings via their Strong Gravitational Lensing Effect: I. Predictions for High Resolution Imaging Surveys

Maria Alice Gasparini, Phil Marshall, Tommaso Treu, Eric Morganson, Florian Dubath

摘要:

我们使用目前的理论估计长宇宙弦的密度预测的数量强引力透镜事件在天文成像调查的角分辨率和调查面积的函数。我们表明,角分辨率是最重要的因素,而有趣的限制无量纲弦张力Gmu/c^2可以通过现有的和计划的调查。在哈勃太空望远镜的分辨率(0.14”)下,足以测量几平方度的量级--在当前HST档案的范围内--来探测Gmu/c^2 ~ 10^{-7}区域。如果没有探测到宇宙弦的透镜效应,这样的测量将使弦张力的极限比宇宙微波背景的极限提高两倍。未来的高分辨率成像调查,覆盖几百平方度或更多,无论是从太空中的光学或从地面上的大型射电望远镜,将能够进一步降低这一限制到Gmu/c^2 < 10^{-8}。

英文摘要:

We use current theoretical estimates for the density of long cosmic strings to predict the number of strong gravitational lensing events in astronomical imaging surveys as a function of angular resolution and survey area. We show that angular resolution is the most important factor, and that interesting limits on the dimensionless string tension Gmu/c^2 can be obtained by existing and planned surveys. At the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope (0.14"), it is sufficient to survey of order a few square degrees -- well within reach of the current HST archive -- to probe the regime Gmu/c^2 ~ 10^{-7}. If lensing by cosmic strings is not detected, such a survey would improve the limit on the string tension by a factor of two over that available from the cosmic microwave background. Future high resolution imaging surveys, covering a few hundred square degrees or more, either from space in the optical or from large-format radio telescopes on the ground, would be able to further lower this limit to Gmu/c^2 < 10^{-8}.

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