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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 |
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Nota di contenuto: | Recollections of the career of Bernard Burke -- 0957+561: The unpublished story -- History of gravitational lenses and the phenomena they produce -- The versatile elliptical gravitational lens -- Gravitational lens optics --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 |
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