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  title info:
    title: Gravitational Lenses
  name:
    name part: Schneider, Peter.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Ehlers, Jürgen.
  name:
    name part: Falco, Emilio E.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1992
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 560 pages 112 illustrations)
  abstract: This systematic presentation of the current status and problems of the theory and observations of gravitational lensing starts from the equations of classical electrodynamics and general relativity, and develops for the first time gravitational lens theory from first principles. Beginning with simple models and basic properties of the lens mapping, the book proceeds to more complicated recent analytical and numerical treatments, thereby highlighting the prominent role played by lensing statistics in the interpretation of high-redshift objects. A detailed description of microlensing is given. The potential role of gravitational lenses as astronomical tools, for example, to determine the masses of cosmic objects and the scale of the universe and as natural telescopes, is pointed out. On the observational side, details of several known multiple QSOs, radio rings and luminous arcs, and the difficulties of observation and verification of lens systems are summarized. The basics of catastophe theory, to the extent that it concerns singularities of plane maps, are derived and some techniques for numerical treatments of gravitational lensing are listed. This book can be viewed as both textbook and research monograph.
  note: by Peter Schneider, Jürgen Ehlers, Emilio E. Falco.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Physical geography
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Physical geography
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  classification: QC178
  classification: QC173.5-173.65
  classification: 530.1
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    title info:
      title: Astronomy and astrophysics library
  identifier: 9781461227564 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1461227569 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781461276555
  identifier: 1461276551
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    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260422222238.1
    record identifier: in00003566201
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng