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Titolo |
Gravitational Lenses [[electronic resource] ] : 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 / / edited by James M. Moran, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Kwok-Yung Lo |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1989 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 1989.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XIV, 240 p. 41 illus.) |
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Collana |
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Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 330 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Gravitation |
Observations, Astronomical |
Astronomy—Observations |
Astrophysics |
Geophysics |
Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory |
Astronomy, Observations and Techniques |
Astrophysics and Astroparticles |
Geophysics/Geodesy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Recollections of the career of Bernard Burke -- 0957+561: The unpublished story -- History of gravitational lenses and the phenomena they produce -- The versatile elliptical gravitational lens -- Gravitational lens optics --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 |
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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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