Direct observation of cosmic strings via their strong gravitational lensing effect - I. Predictions for high-resolution imaging surveys

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 385, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1959-1964

  Gasparini, M Alice ^a   Marshall, Phil ^a   Treu, Tommaso ^a   Morganson, Eric ^b   Dubath, Florian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Gravitational lensing; Surveys

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; RADIO TELESCOPES; SPACE TELESCOPES;

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; ASTRONOMICAL IMAGING; COSMIC STRINGS; COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; GRAVITATIONAL LENSING; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPES; IMAGING SURVEYS; STRING TENSION;

SURVEYS;

EID: 41849133162     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12657.x     Document Type: Article

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