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Gravitational Lensing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Joachim Wambsganss
Joachim Wambsganss*
Affiliation:
Universität Potsdam, Institut für Physik, Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Golm, Germany. E-mail: jkw@astro.physik.uni-potsdam.de

Abstract

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In the roughly 20 years of its existence as an observational science, gravitational lensing has established itself as a valuable tool in many astrophysical fields. In the introduction of this review we briefly present the basics of lensing. Then it is shown that the two propagation effects, lensing and scintillation, have a number of properties in common. In the main part various lensing phenomena are discussed with emphasis on recent observations.

Type
Chapter Three Intra-Day Variability, Gravitational Lensing and Polarization
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 182: Sources and Scintillations: Refraction and Scattering in Radio Astronomy , 2001 , pp. 123 - 128
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 2001

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