The statistical lensing of QSOs

We use the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey, to investigate whether QSOs are detectably gravitationally lensed. Lensing could magnify and distort light from QSOs, influencing QSO numbers near galaxies, which trace structure in our Universe. Following Boyle, Fong & Shanks (1988), we find a 3σ anti-correla...

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Main Author: Myers, Adam David
Published: Durham University 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274749