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Gravitational lensing by straight cosmic strings
A. T. Kotvitskiiab a Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
b National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
Kharkiv, Ukraine
Abstract:
We consider effects due to gravitational lensing by hypothetical cosmic strings. We briefly review facts concerning infinite straight strings, obtain the equation for a gravitational lens produced by an infinite string in the classical form, and analyze features of the gravitational lensing for a given object in detail. We consider a finite straight string. We present caustics and critical curves for strings with different lengths and also some images produced by the considered gravitational lens. We propose a method for constructing brightness curves numerically. As an example of the working capacity of this method, we construct a concrete brightness curve for certain gravitational lens parameters.
Keywords:
gravitational lens, cosmic string, microlensing, brightness curve.
Received: 20.01.2015 Revised: 11.02.2015
Citation:
A. T. Kotvitskii, “Gravitational lensing by straight cosmic strings”, TMF, 184:1 (2015), 160–174; Theoret. and Math. Phys., 184:1 (2015), 1033–1046
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/tmf8858https://doi.org/10.4213/tmf8858 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/tmf/v184/i1/p160
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