Deep surveys planned as a Key Science Project of LOFAR provide completely new opportunities for gravitational lens searches. For the first time do large-scale surveys reach the resolution required for a direct selection of lens candidates using morphological criteria. We briefly describe the strategies that we will use to exploit this potential. The long baselines of an international E-LOFAR are essential for this project.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0806.0494,
title = {Gravitational lens surveys with LOFAR},
author = {Olaf Wucknitz and Mike Garrett},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.0494},
year = {2008}
}
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Poster presented at the conference "From planets to dark energy: The modern radio Universe" in Manchester, October 2007. Proceedings contribution and original poster also available from http://pos.sissa.it/cgi-bin/reader/contribution.cgi?id=PoS%28MRU%29142