2004/02/29 by Andrea V. Macciò, Andrea V. Maccio'
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09257.x
published as Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 361 (2005) 1250-1256 · 8 pages, 11 figures. Lensing map resolution improved and effects of resolution discussed. One more RP model analysed. Accepted for publication by MNRAS
arxiv created 2005/06/06 · openalex publication_date 2005/08/03 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We study the strong gravitational lensing properties of galaxy clusters obtained from N-body simulations with different kinds of dark energy (DE). We consider both dynamical DE, due to a scalar field self-interacting through Ratra—Peebles (RP) or supergravity (SUGRA) potentials, and DE with constant negative w=p/ρ=−1 (ΛCDM). We have 12 high-resolution lensing systems for each cosmological model with mass greater than 5.0 × 1014 h−1 M⊙. Using a ray shooting technique, we make a detailed analysis of the lensing properties of these clusters, paying particular attention to the number of arcs and their properties (magnification, length and width). We find that the number of giant arcs produced by galaxy clusters changes in a considerable way from ΛCDM models to dynamical dark energy models with an RP or SUGRA potential. These differences originate from the different epochs of cluster formation and from the non-linearity of the strong lensing effect. We suggest that strong lensing is one of the best tools to discriminate among different kinds of dark energy