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Hubble imaging excludes cosmic string lens
Phys. Rev. D 73, 087302 – Published 28 April, 2006
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.73.087302
Abstract
The galaxy image pair Capodimonte-Sternberg-Lens Candidate no. 1 (CSL-1) has been a leading candidate for a cosmic string lens. High quality imaging data from the Hubble Space Telescope presented here show that it is not a lens but a pair of galaxies. The galaxies show different orientations of their principal axes, not consistent with any lens model. We present a new direct test of the straight-string lens model, using a displaced difference of the image from itself to exclude CSL-1 at high confidence.
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