Astrophysical Applications of Gravitational Lensing
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Astrophysical Applications of Gravitational Lensing

  1. 306 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Astrophysical Applications of Gravitational Lensing

About this book

Gravitational lenses offer the best, and sometimes the only, means of tackling key problems in many fields of astrophysics and cosmology. According to Einstein's theory, the curvature of light-rays increases with mass; gravitational lenses can be used to map the distribution of mass in a Universe in which virtually all matter is dark matter of an unknown nature. Gravitational lensing has significantly improved our knowledge of many astrophysical phenomena, such as exoplanets, galaxies, active galactic nuclei, quasars, clusters, large-scale structure and the Universe itself. All these topics are covered fully in this book, together with two tutorials on lens and microlensing modelling. The future of lensing in relation to large surveys and the anticipated discoveries of thousands more gravitational lenses is also discussed, making this volume an ideal guide for postgraduate students and practising researchers in the use of gravitational lenses as a tool in their investigations.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781107078543
eBook ISBN
9781316685129
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Astronomy & Astrophysics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of contributors
  8. List of participants
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. 1 Lensing basics
  12. 2 Exoplanet microlensing
  13. 3 Four case studies of microlensing
  14. 4 Gravitational (micro)lensing of quasars and AGN
  15. 5 Dark matter in clusters and large-scale structure
  16. 6 The future of strong lensing
  17. 7 Methods for strong lens modelling
  18. 8 Tutorial on inverse ray shooting

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