No evidence for the evolution of mass density power-law index $γ$ from strong gravitational lensing observation [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.07614


In this paper, we consider the singular isothermal sphere lensing model that have a spherically symmetric power-law mass distribution $\rho_{tot}(r)\sim r^{-\gamma}$. We investigate whether the mass density power-law index $\gamma$ is cosmologically evolutionary by using the strong gravitational lensing (SGL) observation, in combination with other cosmological observations. We also check whether the constraint result of $\gamma$ is affected by the cosmological model, by considering several simple dynamical dark energy models. We find that the constraint on $\gamma$ is mainly decided by the SGL observation and independent of the cosmological model, and we find no evidence for the evolution of $\gamma$ from the SGL observation.

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J. Cui, H. Li and X. Zhang
Wed, 26 Apr 17
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Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures