The angular diameter distance of lens, $D_{Aol}$, of strong gravitational lensing systems has been claimed as a cosmic standard ruler. The first measurements for this distance were recently obtained to two well-known systems: B1608+656 and RXJ1131-1231. However, there is a range of possible systematic uncertainties which must be addressed in order to turn these systems into useful cosmic probes. In this paper, we confront $D_{Aol}$ with luminosity distances of type Ia supernovae and angular diameter distances of galaxy clusters to search for tensions between these cosmological measurements using the cosmic distance duality relation. No tension was verified with the present data, showing the robustness of the assumptions used to describe the lens systems.
Efficient gravitational lens optical scalars calculation of black holes with angular momentum
我们提供了新的非常简单和紧凑的表达式的有效计算的引力透镜光学标量的克尔时空是准确的沿任何零测地线。这些新的结果是在著名的测地线运动结果的基础上得到的,这些结果利用了Kerr时空中明显的和隐藏的对称性,并与文献中以前报道的相当长和繁琐的表达式形成对比,为Kerr几何中测地线偏差方程的有效积分提供了有益的改进。我们还介绍了一个处方的观察者框架,它捕获了一个新的概念\emph{center of the black hole},它可以用于任何位置的观察者,包括那些附近的黑洞。我们比较有效的计算弱透镜光学标量的精确方程,找到一个很好的协议。
Model Selection based on the Angular-Diameter Distance to the Compact Structure in Radio Quasars
在宇宙学中所有的距离和时间测度中,角直径距离d_A(z)唯一地在某个有限红移z_max处达到最大值,然后在大爆炸附近减小到零。由于缺乏可靠的标准标尺,这种效应很难观察到,尽管对射电类星体紧凑结构的识别的改进可能克服了这一缺陷。在这封信中,我们收集了140个0 < z < 3的源的目录,用于模型选择和z_max的测量。在平坦的LCDM中,我们发现Ω_m= 0.24^{+0.1}_{-0.09},与Planck完全一致,z_max=1.69。这两个值都与d_A(z)相关联,与零有效质量条件rho+3 p =0预测的d_A(z)在宇宙流体的总压力p和总能量密度rho方面没有区别。由这个约束驱动的膨胀,称为R_h=ct宇宙,具有z_max=1.718,与测量值相差不到1.6%。事实上,贝叶斯信息准则更倾向于R_h=ct而不是平坦LCDM,其可能性约为81%对19%,这表明普朗克LCDM中的优化参数模拟了约束p=-rho/3。