Gravitational lenses /
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| Natura: | Libro |
| Lingua: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
c1999.
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| Edizione: | Study ed. |
| Serie: | Astronomy and astrophysics library
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| Accesso online: | Publisher description Table of contents only |
Sommario:
- Introduction
- Basic facts and the observational situation
- Optics in curved spacetime
- Derivation of the lens equation
- Properties of the lens mapping
- Lensing near critical points
- Wave optics in gravitational lensing
- Simple lens models
- Multiple light deflection
- Numerical methods
- Statistical gravitational lensing: General considerations
- Statistical gravitational lensing: Applications
- Gravitational lenses as astrophysical tools
- References
- Index of Individual Objects
- Subject Index.