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{{short description|Feature seen when light is gravitationally lensed by an object}}{{Gravitational Lensing}}An Einstein ring, also known as an EinsteinâChwolson ring or Chwolson ring (named for Orest Chwolson), is created when light from a galaxy or star passes by a massive object en route to the Earth. Due to gravitational lensing, the light is diverted, making it seem to come from different places. If source, lens, and observer are all in perfect alignment (syzygy), the light appears as a ring.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Introduction
Gravitational lensing is predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.NEWS, Overbye, Dennistitle=Astronomers Observe Supernova and Find They're Watching Reruns | date=March 5, 2015 | access-date=March 5, 2015, Instead of light from a source traveling in a straight line (in three dimensions), it is bent by the presence of a massive body, which distorts spacetime. An Einstein Ring is a special case of gravitational lensing, caused by the exact alignment of the source, lens, and observer. This results in symmetry around the lens, causing a ring-like structure.DRAKEFORD >FIRST1=JASON | FIRST2=JONATHAN | FIRST3=DENNIS | URL=HTTPS://WWW.NYTIMES.COM/VIDEO/SCIENCE/100000003552687/OUT-THERE-EINSTEINS-TELESCOPE.HTML | WORK=THE NEW YORK TIMES, December 27, 2015, File:Einstein ring geometry.svg|400px|thumb|The geometry of a complete Einstein ring, as caused by a gravitational lensgravitational lensThe size of an Einstein ring is given by the Einstein radius. In radians, it is
theta_1 = sqrt{frac{4GM}{c^2};frac{D_{LS}}{D_S D_L}},
where
G is the gravitational constant,
M is the mass of the lens,
c is the speed of light,
D_L is the angular diameter distance to the lens,
D_S is the angular diameter distance to the source, and
D_{LS} is the angular diameter distance between the lens and the source.WEB,weblink Gravitational lensing, 19, Pritchard, Jonathan, Harvard and Smithsonian, 21 December 2019, Over cosmological distances D_{LS}ne D_S-D_L in general.HistoryFile:ALMA image of the gravitationally lensed galaxy SDP.81..jpg|thumb|Gravitationally lensed galaxy SDP.81 taken by ALMA.NEWS, ALMA at Full Stretch Yields Spectacular Images,weblink 22 April 2015, ESO Announcement, ]]The bending of light by a gravitational body was predicted by Albert Einstein in 1912, a few years before the publication of general relativity in 1916 (Renn et al. 1997). The ring effect was first mentioned in the academic literature by Orest Khvolson in a short article in 1924, in which he mentioned the âhalo effectâ of gravitation when the source, lens, and observer are in near-perfect alignment.WEB,weblink The Early History of Gravitational Lensing, Christina, Turner, February 14, 2006, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080725085534weblink">weblink July 25, 2008, Einstein remarked upon this effect in 1936 in a paper prompted by a letter by a Czech engineer, R W Mandl,WEB, Maurer, Stephen M., IDEA MAN,weblink 4 November 2023, www.slac.stanford.edu, but stated{{blockquote|Of course, there is no hope of observing this phenomenon directly. First, we shall scarcely ever approach closely enough to such a central line. Second, the angle β will defy the resolving power of our instruments.|Science vol 84 p 506 1936}}(In this statement, β is the Einstein Radius currently denoted by theta_1, as in the expression above.) However, Einstein was only considering the chance of observing Einstein rings produced by stars, which is low â the chance of observing those produced by larger lenses such as galaxies or black holes is higher since the angular size of an Einstein ring increases with the mass of the lens.The first complete Einstein ring, designated B1938+666, was discovered by collaboration between astronomers at the University of Manchester and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1998.WEB,weblink A Bull's Eye for MERLIN and the Hubble, University of Manchester, 27 March 1998, There have apparently not been any observations of a star forming an Einstein ring with another star, but there is a 45% chance of this happening in early May, 2028 when Alpha Centauri A passes between us and a distant red star.JOURNAL, P. Kervella, etal, Close stellar conjunctions of α Centauri A and B until 2050, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 594, A107, 1610.06079, Oct 19, 2016, 10.1051/0004-6361/201629201, 2016A&A...594A.107K, 55865290,Known Einstein ringsFile:HST-Smiling-GalaxyClusterSDSS-J1038+4849-20150210.jpg|thumb|"Smiley" or "Cheshire Cat" image of galaxy cluster (SDSS J1038+4849) and gravitational lensing (an "Einstein ring") discovered by an international team of scientists,JOURNAL, Belokurov, V., etal, Two new large-separation gravitational lenses from SDSS, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, January 2009, 392, 1, 104â112, 0806.4188, 2009MNRAS.392..104B, 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14075.x, 14154993, imaged with HST.WEB, Loff, Sarah, Dunbar, Brian, Hubble Sees A Smiling Lens,weblink 10 February 2015, NASANASAHundreds of gravitational lenses are currently known. About half a dozen of them are partial Einstein rings with diameters up to an arcsecond, although as either the mass distribution of the lenses is not perfectly axially symmetrical, or the source, lens, and observer are not perfectly aligned, we have yet to see a perfect Einstein ring. Most rings have been discovered in the radio range. The degree of completeness needed for an image seen through a gravitational lens to qualify as an Einstein ring is yet to be defined.The first Einstein ring was discovered by Hewitt et al. (1988), who observed the radio source MG1131+0456 using the Very Large Array. This observation saw a quasar lensed by a nearer galaxy into two separate but very similar images of the same object, the images stretched round the lens into an almost complete ring.WEB,weblink Discovery of the First "Einstein Ring" Gravitational Lens, NRAO, 2000, 2012-02-08, These dual images are another possible effect of the source, lens, and observer not being perfectly aligned.File:Webb Telescope Detects Universeâs Most Distant Organic Molecules (52958010034).jpg|thumb|JWST false-color image of SPT0418-47SPT0418-47The first complete Einstein ring to be discovered was B1938+666, which was found by King et al. (1998) via optical follow-up with the Hubble Space Telescope of a gravitational lens imaged with MERLIN.NEWS,weblink The New York Times, 'Einstein Ring' Caused by Space Warping Is Found, Malcolm W., Browne, 1998-03-31, 2010-05-01, The galaxy causing the lens at B1938+666 is an ancient elliptical galaxy, and the image we see through the lens is a dark dwarf satellite galaxy, which we would otherwise not be able to see with current technology.JOURNAL, Vegetti, Simona, etal, Gravitational detection of a low-mass dark satellite at cosmological distance, Nature (journal), Nature, January 2012, 481, 7381, 341â343, 1201.3643, 2012Natur.481..341V, 10.1038/nature10669, 22258612, 205227095, In 2005, the combined power of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with the Hubble Space Telescope was used in the Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) Survey to find 19 new gravitational lenses, 8 of which showed Einstein rings,WEB, Bolton, A, etal, Hubble, Sloan Quadruple Number of Known Optical Einstein Rings,weblink Hubblesite, 2014-07-16, these are the 8 shown in the adjacent image. As of 2009, this survey has found 85 confirmed gravitational lenses but there is not yet a number for how many show Einstein rings.JOURNAL, Auger, Matt, etal, The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. IX. Colors, Lensing and Stellar Masses of Early-type Galaxies, The Astrophysical Journal, November 2009, 705, 2, 1099â1115, 0911.2471, 2009ApJ...705.1099A, 10.1088/0004-637X/705/2/1099, 118411085, This survey is responsible for most of the recent discoveries of Einstein rings in the optical range, following are some examples which were found:
Extra ringsUsing the Hubble Space Telescope, a double ring has been found by Raphael Gavazzi of the STScI and Tommaso Treu of the University of California, Santa Barbara. This arises from the light from three galaxies at distances of 3, 6, and 11 billion light years. Such rings help in understanding the distribution of dark matter, dark energy, the nature of distant galaxies, and the curvature of the universe. The odds of finding such a double ring around a massive galaxy are 1 in 10,000. Sampling 50 suitable double rings would provide astronomers with a more accurate measurement of the dark matter content of the universe and the equation of state of the dark energy to within 10 percent precision.WEB,weblink Hubble Finds Double Einstein Ring, 2008-01-26, Hubblesite.org, Space Telescope Science Institute,SimulationBelow in the Gallery section is a simulation depicting a zoom on a Schwarzschild black hole in the plane of the Milky Way between us and the centre of the galaxy. The first Einstein ring is the most distorted region of the picture and shows the galactic disc. The zoom then reveals a series of 4 extra rings, increasingly thinner and closer to the black hole shadow. They are multiple images of the galactic disk. The first and third correspond to points which are behind the black hole (from the observer's position) and correspond here to the bright yellow region of the galactic disc (close to the galactic center), whereas the second and fourth correspond to images of objects which are behind the observer, which appear bluer, since the corresponding part of the galactic disc is thinner and hence dimmer here.GalleryFile:Einstein Rings (Cropped).jpg|Some observed Einstein rings by SLACSFile:Cosmic cloning SDSSJ0146-0929.jpg|Graceful arcs around SDSSJ0146-0929 are examples of an Einstein ringFile:BlackHole Lensing.gif|A simulated view of a black hole passing in front of a galaxyFile:Montage of the SDP.81 Einstein Ring and the lensed galaxy.jpg|Montage of the SDP.81 Einstein Ring and the lensed galaxyFile:EnsteinRingZoomOptimised.gif|Einstein rings close to a black holeSee also{{Commons category|Einstein Rings}}References{{reflist}}Journals
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