Mathematics of gravitational lensing: Multiple imaging and magnification

DOI10.1007/s10714-010-0968-6zbMath1197.83006arXiv0912.0490OpenAlexW3099706473MaRDI QIDQ1958561

Marcus C. Werner, Arlie O. Petters

Publication date: 4 October 2010

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0490

zbMATH Keywords

singularitiesgravitational lensing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-02)

Related Items (11)

Multiplane gravitational lenses with an abundance of images ⋮ How constant shifts affect the zeros of certain rational harmonic functions ⋮ The geometry of gravitational lensing magnification ⋮ On the numbers of images of two stochastic gravitational lensing models ⋮ An upper bound for the number of gravitationally lensed images in a multiplane point-mass ensemble ⋮ Sharp parameter bounds for certain maximal point lenses ⋮ Gravitational lensing in the Kerr-Randers optical geometry ⋮ Lensing by Kerr black holes. I. General lens equation and magnification formula ⋮ Perturbing rational harmonic functions by poles ⋮ Creating images by adding masses to gravitational point lenses ⋮ On mixed polynomials of bidegree \((n,1)\)

Uses Software

• GAUDI
• MultiPlane

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