Joint AAO/ATNF Colloquium.
Thursday 23 August 2001 - 3:30pm AAO Conference Room
Cosmological Parameter Survey Using the Gravitational Lensing
Method
Dr. Premana W. Premadi
Institut Teknologi Bandung (Indonesia)
Using a multiple-lens plane algorithm, we study light propagation
in inhomogeneous universes, for 43 different COBE-normalized Cold
Dark Matter models, with various values of the density parameter
Omega_0, cosmological constant lambda_0, Hubble constant H_0, and
rms density fluctuation sigma_8. This is the largest cosmological
parameter survey ever done in this field. We performed a total of
3,798 experiments, each experiment consisting of propagating a
square beam of angular size 21.9" x 21.9" composed of 116,281 light
rays from the observer up to redshift z=3. These experiments provide
statistics of the magnification, shear, and multiple imaging of
distant sources. The results of these experiments can be compared
with observations, and eventually help constraining the possible
values of the cosmological parameters. Additionally, they provide
insight into the gravitational lensing process and its complex
relationship with the various cosmological parameters.
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