CSL-1: Chance projection effect or serendipitous discovery of a gravitational lens induced by a cosmic string?

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 343, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 353-359

  Sazhin, M ^a,b   Longo, G ^c,d   Capaccioli, M ^a,c   Alcala J M ^a   Silvotti, R ^a   Covone, G ^d   Khovanskaya, O ^b   Pavlov, M ^a   Pannella, M ^a   Radovich, M ^a   Testa, V ^e  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAPODIMONTE   (Italy)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d FUNDACIÓN GALILEO GALILEI INAF   (Spain)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cosmology: miscellaneous; Galaxies: general; Gravitational lensing

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; GRAVITATION;

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; COSMIC STRINGS; COSMOLOGY: MISCELLANEOUS; ENERGY SCALE; EXPERIMENTA; GALAXIES GENERAL; GRAVITATIONAL LENS; GRAVITATIONAL LENSING; PROJECTION EFFECTS; SERENDIPITOUS DISCOVERY;

GALAXIES;

EID: 0142086814     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06568.x     Document Type: Article

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