{
  "id": "astro-ph/0606719",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2006-06-29T14:26:50.000Z",
  "updated": "2006-06-29T14:26:50.000Z",
  "title": "On a systematic bias in SBF-based distances due to gravitational microlensing",
  "authors": [
    "Artem V. Tuntsov",
    "Geraint F. Lewis"
  ],
  "comment": "11 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS",
  "journal": "Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.371:1259-1268,2006",
  "doi": "10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10748.x",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "The effect of gravitational microlensing on the determination of extragalactic distances using surface brightness fluctuations (SBF) technique is considered and a method to calculate SBF amplitudes in presence of microlensing is presented. With a simple approximation for the magnification power spectrum at low optical depth the correction to the SBF-based luminosity distance is calculated. The results suggest the effect can be safely neglected at present but may become important for SBF-based Hubble diagrams at luminosity distances of about 1 Gpc and beyond.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2006-06-29T14:26:50.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "gravitational microlensing",
      "systematic bias",
      "sbf-based distances",
      "magnification power spectrum",
      "surface brightness fluctuations"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "Wiley-Blackwell",
      "journal": "J. Finance"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 11,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 720403
    }
  }
}