Title Gravitational Lenses

Edition N Published New York : Springer New York, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (564 pages) Contents ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS LIBRARY; Gravitational Lenses; Copyright; Preface; Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic facts and the observational situation; 3. Optics in curved spacetime; 4. Derivation of the lens equation; 5. Properties of the lens mapping; 6. Lensing near critical points; 7. Wave optics in gravitational lensing; 8. Simple lens models; 9. Multiple light deflection; 10. Numerical methods; 11. Statistical gravitational lensing: General considerations; 12. Statistical gravitational lensing: Applications; 13. Gravitational lenses as astrophysical tools; References Notes Index of Individual ObjectsSubject Index Print version record Subject Gravitational lenses. Gravitational lenses. Form Electronic book Author Kippenhahn, Rudolf Trimble, Virginia ISBN 9781461227564 1461227569

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