Time delay in Swiss cheese gravitational lensing

Journal Article · Sun Aug 15 04:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.82.043005· OSTI ID:21420903

Chen, B; Kantowski, R; Dai, X ^[1]

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1. Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, 440 West Brooks Street, Room 100, Norman, Oklahoma 73019 (United States)

We compute time delays for gravitational lensing in a flat {Lambda} dominated cold dark matter Swiss cheese universe. We assume a primary and secondary pair of light rays are deflected by a single point mass condensation described by a Kottler metric (Schwarzschild with {Lambda}) embedded in an otherwise homogeneous cosmology. We find that the cosmological constant's effect on the difference in arrival times is nonlinear and at most around 0.002% for a large cluster lens; however, we find differences from time delays predicted by conventional linear lensing theory that can reach {approx}4% for these large lenses. The differences in predicted delay times are due to the failure of conventional lensing to incorporate the lensing mass into the mean mass density of the universe.

• OSTI ID: 21420903
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 82; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT
COSMOLOGY
DENSITY
GRAVITATIONAL LENSES
LENSES
MASS
MATTER
NONLINEAR PROBLEMS
NONLUMINOUS MATTER
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
SIMULATION
TIME DELAY
UNIVERSE