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Observational evidence shows that gravitational lensing induces an angular correlation between the distribution of galaxies and much more distant QSOs. We use weak gravitational lensing theory to calculate this angular correlation, updating…

We detect a positive angular correlation between bright, high-redshift QSOs and foreground galaxies. The QSOs are taken from the optically selected LBQS Catalogue, while the galaxies are from the APM Survey. The correlation amplitude is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Liliya L. R. Williams , Mike Irwin

Gravitational lensing predicts an enhancement of the density of bright, distant QSOs around foreground galaxies. We measure this QSO-galaxy correlation w_qg for two complete samples of radio-loud quasars, the southern 1Jy and Half-Jansky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Benitez , J. L. Sanz , E. Martinez-Gonzalez

We calculate the angular cross-correlation function between background QSOs and foreground galaxies induced by the weak lensing effect of large-scale structures. Results are given for arbitrary Friedmann-Lemaitre cosmologies. The non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Klaus Dolag , Matthias Bartelmann

We find angular correlations between high redshift radio selected QSOs from the 1 Jy Catalog and APM galaxies on ~1 degree scales. We demonstrate that observed correlations are qualitatively consistant with a gravitational lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dara J. Norman , Liliya L. R. Williams

We simulated both the matter and light (galaxy) distributions in a wedge of the universe and calculated the gravitational lensing magnification caused by the mass along the line of sight of galaxies and galaxy groups identified in sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio C. C. Guimarães , Adam D. Myers , Tom Shanks

We cross-correlate APM and SDSS galaxies with background QSOs from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey, and detect a significant (2.8sigma) anti-correlation. The lack of a signal between 2dF stars and our galaxy samples suggests the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 A. D. Myers , P. J. Outram , T. Shanks , B. J. Boyle , S. M. Croom , N. S. Loaring , L. Miller , R. J. Smith

A thorough study of QSO-galaxy correlations has been done on a region close to the North Galactic Pole using a complete subsample of the optically selected CFHT/MMT QSO survey and the galaxy catalog of Odewahn and Aldering (1995). Although…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 I. Ferreras , N. Benitez , E. Martinez-Gonzalez

We report a detection of galaxy-QSO cross-correlation w_GQ in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Early Data Release (EDR) over 0.2-30 arc-minute scales. We cross-correlate galaxy samples of different mean depths r'=19-22 (z_G =0.15-0.35)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Enrique Gaztanaga

We investigate the anti-correlation between faint high redshift QSOs and low redshift galaxy groups found by Boyle, Fong & Shanks (1988), on the assumption that it is caused by gravitational lensing of a flat QSO number count, rather than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. M. Croom , T. Shanks

The lensing of background QSOs by foreground galaxies is a powerful probe of the mass density of the Universe and the power spectrum of mass clustering. However, the 2dF QSO survey suggested that a strong anticorrelation effect at g<21 was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Mountrichas , T. Shanks

A recently discovered inverse correlation between QSO redshift and long-term continuum variability timescales was suggested to be the signature of microlensing on cosmological scales (Hawkins 1993). A general theoretical method for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tal Alexander

The angular two-point correlation function between background QSOs and foreground galaxies induced by gravitational lensing is derived. It is shown that the shape of this correlation function depends sensitively on the spectrum of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Bartelmann

We review observations and gravitational lensing theory related to the magnification of background QSOs by intervening overdensities, and the induced cross-correlation between sources and foreground galaxies. We pay special attention to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonio C. C. Guimarães

Distribution and properties of QSOs behind galaxy clusters in the UKJ287 field were studied. QSOs were selected using variability criteria and are confined to $z \ge 0.4$ and $m_B \le 19.5$. No reddening or obscuration of background QSOs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 L. L. Rodrigues-Williams , M. R. S. Hawkins

We explore the weak lensing effect by line-of-sight halos and sub-halos with a mass of M < 10^7 solar mass in QSO-galaxy strong lens systems with quadruple images in a concordant LCDM universe. Using a polynomially fitted non-linear power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Kaiki Taro Inoue , Ryuichi Takahashi

The magnification bias of large-scale structures, combined with galaxy biasing, leads to a cross-correlation of distant quasars with foreground galaxies on angular scales of the order of arc minutes and larger. The amplitude and angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Brice Menard , Matthias Bartelmann

Correlations between the magnification or polarization of background sources, induced by gravitational lensing due to the large-scale structure, and the positions of foreground galaxies are investigated. We found that their amplitude is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. L. Sanz , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , N. Benitez

Via the magnification bias, gravitational lensing by large-scale structures causes angular cross-correlations between distant quasars and foreground galaxies on angular scales of arc minutes and above. We investigate the three-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Brice Menard , Matthias Bartelmann , Yannick Mellier

The theoretically expected amplitude of the associations of background quasars with foreground galaxies as a result of gravitational lensing has been updated in this paper. Since the galactic matter alone yields an amplitude of quasar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zong-Hong Zhu , Xiang-Ping Wu , Li-Zhi Fang
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