Blue Cheese Cosmology: Lensing by Cosmic Strings

Author

Jared Wofford, University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College

Date of Award

2016

Document Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Department

Physics and Astronomy

First Advisor

Luca Bombelli

Relational Format

Dissertation/Thesis

Abstract

The light bending effects around cosmic strings in universes with varying rates of expansion are investigated. A relationship between the angular deflection and the expansion rate is found. This is made possible by the Blue Cheese model, which is a generalization to a cylindrical realm of the Swiss Cheese model

Recommended Citation

Wofford, Jared, "Blue Cheese Cosmology: Lensing by Cosmic Strings" (2016). Honors Theses. 430.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/430

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