Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Springer International Publishing
Buchreihe	:	Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, Springer Praxis Books
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	12. 12. 2018
Seiten	:	287
Einband	:	Gebunden
Höhe	:	235 mm
Breite	:	155 mm
Gewicht	:	619 g
ISBN	:	9783030021214
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Autorinformation

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Arthur Congdon earned a B.S. in Physics from Temple University in 2001, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Rutgers University in 2008. He was a fellow of the NASA Postdoctoral Program based at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 2008-2010.Charles Keeton earned a B.A. in Physics from Cornell University in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 1998. He held the Bart J. Bok Fellowship at the University of Arizona and a NASA Hubble Fellowship at the University of Chicago before joining the faculty of Rutgers University in 2004.Congdon wrote his doctoral thesis on gravitational lensing under Keeton’s supervision. Here they use their combined expertise to explain many physical and astrophysical aspects of the topic.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Chapter 1- Introduction.- Chapter 2- Gravitational Lenses with Circular Symmetry.- Chapter 3- Light Deflection in Curved Spacetime.- Chapter4- Multiple Imaging in the Weak-Field Limit.- Chapter 5- Microlensing within the Local Group.- Chapter 6- Strong Lensing by Galaxies.- Chapter 7- Strong and Weak Lensing by Galaxy Clusters.- Chapter 8- Weak Lensing by Large-Scale Structure.- Chapter 9- Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background.- Appendix A- Calculus of Variations.- Appendix B- Functions of  Complex Variable.- Appendix C- Orthogonal Functions.- Appendix D- Fourier Analysis.- Appendix E- Computational Techniques.- Index.

Pressestimmen

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“As the book presupposes very little previous knowledge on the reader's side, and as it is written with great didactical skill, it is very well accessible to undergraduate students. By working through this book one gets a very good overview of the observed lensing phenomena and of the mathematical techniques to evaluate them. Of course, the reader has to accept the limited scope of the book. Anybody who is willing to do so will find it very useful.” (Volker Perlick, Mathematical Reviews, June, 2023)“The readership for this will probably be undergraduates who are undertaking project work in lensing, or graduates who are beginning doctorates in strong gravitational lensing or microlensing, for which this will be an excellent and readableresource.” (Alan Heavens, The Observatory, Vol. 139 (1272), October, 2019)

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