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1、arXiv:0707.1730v1[astro-ph]12Jul2007CanStrongGravitationalLensingConstrainDarkEnergy?SeokcheonLee1andKin-WangNg1,21InstituteofPhysics,AcademiaSinica,Taipei,Taiwan11529,R.O.C.2InstituteofAstronomyandAstrophysics,AcademiaSinica,Taipei,Taiwan11529,R.O.C.AbstractWediscusstheratiooftheangulardiameterdistancesfromthesourcetothelens,Dds,andtotheobserveratpresent,Ds,forvariousdarkenergymodels.ItiswellknownthatthedifferenceofDssbetweenthemodelsisapparentandthisquantityisusedfortheanalysisofTypeIasupernov。
2、ae.Howeverweinvestigatethedifferencebetweentheratiooftheangulardiameterdistancesforacosmologicalconstant,(Dds/Ds)Λandthatforotherdarkenergymodels,(Dds/Ds)otherinthispaper.Ithasbeenknownthatthereislensmodeldegeneracyinusingstronggravitationallensing.Thus,weinvestigatethemodelindependentobservablequantity,Einsteinradius(θE),whichisproportionaltobothDds/Dsandvelocitydispersionsquared,σ2v.Dds/Dsvaluesdependontheparametersofeachdarkenergymodelindividually.However,(Dds/Ds)Λ−(Dds/Ds)otherforthevariousda。
3、rkenergymodels,iswellwithintheerrorofσvformostoftheparameterspacesofthedarkenergymodels.Thus,asinglestronggravitationallensingbyuseoftheEinsteinradiusmaynotbeapropermethodtoinvestigatethepropertyofdarkenergy.However,betterunderstandingtothemassprofileofclustersinthefutureorothermethodsrelatedtoarcstatisticsratherthanthedistancesmaybeusedforconstraintsondarkenergy.1IntroductionRecentobservationsofhighredshiftTypeIasupernovae(SNeIa)suggestedthattheexpansionoftheUniverseiscurrentlyaccelerating[1].Th。
4、ecosmicmicrowavebackground(CMB)anisotropydata,indicatingaspatiallyflatuniverse[2]containingalowvalueforthecolddarkmatter(CDM)densityparameter[3],hasconfirmedthattheUniverseisdominantlymadeupofacomponentwithnegativepressure(darkenergy)tomakeupthecriticaldensitytoday.Thecosmologicalconstantand/oraquintessencefieldarethemostcommonlyacceptedcan-didatesfordarkenergy.Althoughthecosmologicalconstantissimpleandfavoredbycurrentcosmologicalobservations,thereis50to120ordersofmagnitudediscrepancybetweentheorya。
5、ndthemeasuredvalue[4].Thequintessence,whichmightalleviatethisproblemisadynamicalscalarfieldleadingtoatimedependentequationofstateparameter[5].Variousscalarfieldpotentialsforthequintessencehavebeeninvestigated[6].ItisimportanttousevariouswaysofcheckingfortheexistenceofdarkenergyinadditiontoSNeIaandCMBanisotropyconstraintsondarkenergy.Anumberofothertestshavebeenconsideredincluding“geometric”testsusingstandardcosmologicalmethods(thegalaxyclustergasmassfraction[7],thelocationofCMBpeaks[8,9],theredshif。
6、t-angularsize[10],thestronggravitationallensing[11]-[14],fluctuationsoftheluminositydistance[15],etc.).Thestatisticsofgravitationallensingofquasars(QSOs)byinterveninggalaxiescanconstrainonthecosmologicalconstant[12].Lensedimagesofdistantgalaxiesincluster,arcsorrings,mayprovideaboundontheequationofstateparameterofdarkenergy[13].WhileSNeIaisusedtodeterminetheluminositydistanceitself,agravitationallensingsystemcanbeusedmeasuretheratioofangulardiameterdistances.Thus,thegravitationallensingsystemisreg。
7、ardedasanindependenttoolthatcomplementsSNeIaasaprobeofdarkenergy[14].However,thelensingobservationsprimarilydependontheparametersoflensmodelswithminordependenceoncosmologicalparameters[16].Thereisthelensmodeldegeneracyinboththeprojectedmassdensityprofileandthecircularvelocityprofile.ItisshownthatweneedtomeasuretheEinsteinradiusandthevelocitydispersionwithinO(1)%accuracyinordertoputaconstraintonωDE.Inthegravitationallensing,oneoftheobservablequantitieswithouthavinganymodeldepen-denceistheEinsteinra。
8、dius(θE),whichisproportionaltothevelocitydispersionsquared(σ2v)andtheratiooftheangulardistancesDds/Ds,whereDdsisthedistancefromthelenstothesourceandDsisthatfromthesourcetotheobserver.Withdifferentvaluesofcosmologicalparameters,wecanhavedifferentvaluesofDds/Ds,i.e.differentvaluesofθE.Thus,itmightbeusedforprobingthepropertyofdarkenergy,ωDE.However,thereisanambiguityinmeasuringσv.IftheerrorofσvmeasurementisnotwithinthedifferencesofDds/Dsbetweendifferentcosmologicalmodels,thenwecannotdistinguishthediffere。
9、ncesbetweenmodelsbymeasuringθE.Thispaperisorganizedasfollows.Inthenextsectionwereviewthegravitationallensing1NSSsI′ISdS0ˆαβθDdsDdDsLOFigure1:Agenerallensingsystem.Listhecenterofthelens,andthelinethroughLandtheobserverOistheopticalaxis.βisanunperturbedangularpositionofthesourcerelativetothat.ˆαisthedeflectionangleofalightray,thusanimageofthesourceisobservedatpositionθ.Howeverallanglesareverysmall,wecanreplacethereallightray(SI′O)byitsapproximationSIO.systemwiththebasicequationsusedinlensingobserva。
10、tions.Wealsobrieflymentionthemostpopularlensmodels.WereviewthevariousaspectsoferrorsinmodelinglensinSec.3.InSec.4,wecheckboththedifferencesofDsandthedifferencesofDds/Dsbetweenthecosmologicalconstantandotherdarkenergymodels.Ourconclusionisinthelastsection.2GravitationalLensingandIsothermalGalaxyModelsFigure1showsasimplelensingsystem[17].ConsiderthesourcesphereSs,i.e.aspherewithradiusDs,centeredattheobserverOandthedeflectorsphereSdwithradiusDd,i.e.thedistancetothecenterofthelensL.Inaddition,considerthe。
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