Continuous Limit of Multiple Gravitational Lens Effect and Average Magnification Factor
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We show that the gravitational magnification factor averaged over all configurations of lenses in a locally inhomogeneous universe satisfy a second order differential equation with redshift by taking the continuous limit of multi-plane gravitational lens equation (the number of lenses ) and that the gravitationally magnified Dyer-Roeder distance in a clumpy universe becomes to that of the Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre universe for arbitrary values of the density parameter and of a mass fraction (smoothness parameter).
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0304012,
title = {Continuous Limit of Multiple Gravitational Lens Effect and Average Magnification Factor},
author = {Hiroshi Yoshida and Kouji Nakamura and Minoru Omote},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0304012},
year = {2007}
}
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13 pages, 2 figures