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- From: GILMART@LSTC2VM.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
- Subject: Re: Gravitational lenses
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- References: <17NOV199216484347@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu> <Vm4FuB3w165w@west.darkside.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:08:45 GMT
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- In article <Vm4FuB3w165w@west.darkside.com>
- max@west.darkside.com (Erik Max Francis) writes:
-
- >millnerrl@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu (CALLABLE_TPU) writes:
- >> an odd stellar object called I believe "The Einstein Cross" that was explaine
- >
- >I've never heard of the Einstein Cross, but I _do_ know of the Einstein
- >Ring.
-
- The name I vaguely recall is "Huachra's (sp.? Huchra's?) Cross." Maybe
- you can find it in an index by that name.
- >
- >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.
-
- This would seem to give only a rough lower bound for the distance: If the
- two paths are mirror images of each other, the time difference may be zero
- even though both signals are substantially delayed.
-