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

• Pubblicazione: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1989
• Edizione: 1st ed. 1989.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIV, 240 p. 41 illus.)
• Disciplina: 530.1
• Soggetto topico: Gravitation; Observations, Astronomical; Astronomy—Observations; Astrophysics; Geophysics; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques; Astrophysics and Astroparticles; Geophysics/Geodesy
• Persona (resp. second.): MoranJames M; HewittJacqueline N; LoK. Y <1947-2016.> (Kwok Yung)
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Recollections of the career of Bernard Burke -- 0957+561: The unpublished story -- History of gravitational lenses and the phenomena they produce -- The versatile elliptical gravitational lens -- Gravitational lens optics --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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gravitational lenses
• ISBN: 3-540-46142-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910257434503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Lecture Notes in Physics, . 0075-8450 ; ; 330