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- From: max@west.darkside.com (Erik Max Francis)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Gravitational lenses
- Keywords: Gravity, lense, Einstein, cross
- Message-ID: <Vm4FuB3w165w@west.darkside.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:26:30 GMT
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- millnerrl@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu (CALLABLE_TPU) writes:
-
- > Hello. I can't recall off hand where I saw it, but I saw a picture of
- > an odd stellar object called I believe "The Einstein Cross" that was explaine
- > as four images of a star that were really the same one bent around the star i
- > front of it. I apologise for not being able to recall the source of the
- > refrence and if someone could tell me where to find data, I would be most
- > appreciative.
-
- I've never heard of the Einstein Cross, but I _do_ know of the Einstein
- Ring. This is an image of a distance quasar with two ejected jets.
- Because of a massive cluster of galaxies in the foreground, the image is
- deformed: one of the jets is not visible (directly behind the cluster
- of galaxies, I believe), and the other is deformed into a ring. The
- image of the center of the quasar is duplicated on both sides of the
- Ring.
-
- It's interesting to point out that they're now attempting to use
- gravitational lenses to determine the Hubble constant. The idea is that,
- particularly with a doubled image, they look for a flicker in the
- intensity of one image, and then wait to see when the other image
- flickers. Then they check the times to see how far away that quasar must
- be. Since they know the redshift, they have a measure of the Hubble
- constant.
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