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Title: Gravitational lensing in astronomy
Authors: Wambsganss, J.
Publishers version: https://doi.org/10.12942/lrr-1998-12
URI: https://doi.org/10.34657/4036
https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/5407
Issue Date: 1998
Published in: Living Reviews in Relativity 1 (1998)
Journal: Living Reviews in Relativity
Volume: 1
Page Start: 12
Page End: 192
Publisher: Berlin : Springer
Abstract: Deflection of light by gravity was predicted by General Relativity and observationally confirmed in 1919. In the following decades, various aspects of the gravitational lens effect were explored theoretically. Among them were: the possibility of multiple or ring-like images of background sources, the use of lensing as a gravitational telescope on very faint and distant objects, and the possibility of determining Hubble's constant with lensing. It is only relatively recently, (after the discovery of the first doubly imaged quasar in 1979), that gravitational lensing has became an observational science. Today lensing is a booming part of astrophysics. In addition to multiply-imaged quasars, a number of other aspects of lensing have been discovered: For example, giant luminous arcs, quasar microlensing, Einstein rings, galactic microlensing events, arclets, and weak gravitational lensing. At present, literally hundreds of individual gravitational lens phenomena are known. Although still in its childhood, lensing has established itself as a very useful astrophysical tool with some remarkable successes. It has contributed significant new results in areas as different as the cosmological distance scale, the large scale matter distribution in the universe, mass and mass distribution of galaxy clusters, the physics of quasars, dark matter in galaxy halos, and galaxy structure. Looking at these successes in the recent past we predict an even more luminous future for gravitational lensing.
Keywords: light deflection; gravitational lens effect; astronomy
Type: article; Text
Publishing status: publishedVersion
DDC: 530
License: CC BY 4.0 Unported
Link to license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Wambsganss, J., 1998. Gravitational lensing in astronomy. 1998. Berlin : Springer
Wambsganss, J. (1998) “Gravitational lensing in astronomy.” Berlin : Springer. doi: https://doi.org/10.12942/lrr-1998-12.
Wambsganss J. Gravitational lensing in astronomy. Vol. 1. Berlin : Springer; 1998.
Wambsganss, J. (1998). Gravitational lensing in astronomy (Version publishedVersion, Vol. 1). Version publishedVersion, Vol. 1. Berlin : Springer. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.12942/lrr-1998-12
Wambsganss J. Gravitational lensing in astronomy. 1998;1. doi:https://doi.org/10.12942/lrr-1998-12


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