Gravitational Lenses : Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in Honour of Bernard F. Burke's 60th Birthday, June 20, 1988 Paperback
Edited by Moran James M. Moran, Hewitt Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Lo Kwok-Yung Lo
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Recollections of the career of Bernard Burke.- 0957+561: The unpublished story.- History of gravitational lenses and the phenomena they produce.- The versatile elliptical gravitational lens.- Gravitational lens optics.- Gravitational lensing of extended sources.- Moving gravitational lenses.- Explaining Burke and Shapiro to Newton.- Recent optical observations of gravitational lenses.- VLBI observations of gravitational lenses.- VLBI phase reference mapping techniques and the search for the third image of 0957+561.- First VLBI hybrid maps of 0957+561 A and B.- VLA measurement of the time delay in the gravitationally lensed double quasar 0957+561.- Optical determinations of the time delay in 0957+561.- Resolution of galaxy and third image of gravitational lens 2016+112.- Arcs in clusters of galaxies as gravitational lens images.- A gravitational telescope in Abell 370: Indeed it works!.- Observations of the blue arcs in Abell 963.- Is the giant luminous arc due to lensing by a cosmic string?.- Results of the VLA gravitational lens survey.- Optical searches for gravitational lenses.- An optical imaging survey for gravitational lenses and the discovery of a new lens candidate.- Statistics of gravitational lenses: Galaxies and dark matter.- Highly colinear radio sources and constraints on gravitational lens space density.- Gravitational microlensing.- Cosmic density estimate from microlensing.- Micro-lensing model for QSO 2237+0305.- A viable explanation for quasar-galaxy associations?.- Reception photographs.
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- Format:Paperback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Springer Nature B.V.
- Publication Date:12/03/2014
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- ISBN:9783662137307