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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 357, Issue 2, Pages 773-782Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08702.x
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gravitational lensing; cosmological parameters; cosmology : observations
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We evaluate the effect of small-scale inhomogeneities on large-scale observations within the statistics of gravitationally lensed quasars. To this end, we consider a cosmological model whose large-scale properties (dynamics, matter distribution) are the same as in Friedmann-Lemaitre models, but whose matter distribution is locally inhomogeneous. We use the well-known Dyer-Roder distances to allow a simple analytical expression of the optical depth tau, and pay particular attention to the different roles played by the different notions of distance (filled beam angular diameter distance and Dyer-Roder distances) when calculating this quantity, following the 1986 prescription of Ehlers & Schneider for a coherent formalism. We find that the expected number of gravitationally lensed quasars is a decreasing function of the clumpiness parameter alpha.
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