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Gravitational lensing and microlensing
- Title
- Gravitational lensing and microlensing / Silvia Mollerach, Esteban Roulet.
- Author
- Mollerach, Silvia.
- Publication
- River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, [2002], ©2002.
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- Additional Authors
- Roulet, Esteban.
- Description
- xi, 191 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Historical introduction -- Ch. 2. The deflection of light. 2.1. Basics of General Relativity. 2.2. The bending of light -- Ch. 3. Gravitational lensing theory. 3.1. The lens equation. 3.2. The surface brightness conservation. 3.3. Amplification. 3.4. Caustics and critical lines. 3.5. Fermat's principle. 3.6. Galaxy lens models. 3.7. The folded sky. 3.8. Folds and cusps -- Ch. 4. Macrolensing results. 4.1. Lensing of quasars. 4.2. Time delays and H[subscript 0]. 4.3. Statistical lensing and cosmological parameters. 4.4. Strong lensing by clusters. 4.5. Weak lensing in clusters. 4.6. Cosmic shear. 4.7. Quasar-galaxy correlations. 4.8. Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background -- Ch. 5. Microlensing I: Basics. 5.1. The Galaxy in brief. 5.2. Basic microlensing theoretical tools. 5.3. Microlensing of unresolved sources. 5.4. Observational searches of microlensing -- Ch. 6. Microlensing II: Beyond the simplest light curve. 6.1. Binary lenses.
- 6.2. Further determinations of the lensing parameters. 6.3. Astrometric microlensing. 6.4. Quasar microlensing. App. A. Cosmology tools.
- ISBN
- 9810248520
- OCLC
- 50035481
- ocm50035481
- SCSB-4262999
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries