Principles of Gravitational Lensing Light Deflection as a Probe of Astrophysics and Cosmology /

• Main Authors: Congdon, Arthur B. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Keeton, Charles R. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Astronomy and Planetary Sciences,
• Subjects: Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy-Observations.; Gravitation.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

This textbook provides an introduction to gravitational lensing, which has become an invaluable tool in modern astrophysics, with applications that range from finding planets orbiting distant stars to understanding how dark matter and dark energy conspired to form the cosmic structures we see today....

Table of Contents:

• 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.