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  • © 1992

Gravitational Lenses

Proceedings of a Conference Held in Hamburg, Germany, 9-13 September 1991

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 406)

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Table of contents (74 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Introduction to basic concepts of gravitational lensing

    • Ramesh Narayan, Sylvanie Wallington
    Pages 12-26
  3. Optical observations of gravitational lenses

    • J. Surdej, J. F. Claeskens, D. Hutsemékers, P. Magain, B. Pirenne
    Pages 27-43
  4. Recent radio observations of gravitational lenses

    • Jacqueline N. Hewitt
    Pages 44-49
  5. Determining the Hubble parameter

    • Sjur Refsdal
    Pages 61-66
  6. Photometric monitoring of gravitational lenses with the nordic optical telescope

    • Ralph Florentin-Nielsen, Jan Teuber, Erik Knain, Rolf Stabell
    Pages 73-79
  7. A search for closely-spaced gravitational lenses

    • David Crampton, R. D. McClure, J. M. Fletcher
    Pages 80-82
  8. A high-resolution imaging survey for gravitational lenses

    • H. K. C. Yee, A. V. Filippenko, Dongping Tang
    Pages 83-87
  9. Search for gravitational lensing in a sample of highly luminous quasars

    • P. Magain, D. Hutsemékers, J. Surdej, E. Van Drom
    Pages 88-96
  10. Bidimensional spectrography of multiple quasars

    • C. Vanderriest, M. -C. Angonin
    Pages 97-106
  11. Sizing up the universe with an optical illusion: Comments on the measurement of Δt in Q 0957+561

    • C. Vanderriest, E. Gosset, M. Remy, J. -P. Swings
    Pages 107-111
  12. HST observations of G2237+0305 and PG1115+080

    • Philippe Crane
    Pages 112-116
  13. A star-formation region in 2237+030

    • M. M. De Robertis, H. K. C. Yee
    Pages 117-121
  14. The Triple Quasar PG1115+080

    • D. Narasimha, S. M. Chitre
    Pages 128-133
  15. 1830-211 as a lens artefact

    • S. Nair, D. Narasimha, A. P. Rao
    Pages 134-139
  16. 0218+357: The smallest separation lensed system

    • A. R. Patnaik, I. W. A. Browne, L. J. King, T. W. B. Muxlow, D. Walsh, P. N. Wilkinson
    Pages 140-142

About this book

One of the most spectacular predictions of Einstein's theory of general relativity is the occurrence of gravitational lenses in our galactic system.Nowadays the mastering of the mathematics together with the technology available to astronomers allow Einstein's prediction to be confirmed. Several reviews here give the reader the chance to under- stand the basic theoretical concept of gravitational lensing and to obtain an overview of observational work. The present state of the field and latest results are given in a large number of specialized papers. Anextensive source and subject index make these proceedings valuable also as areference book for all researchers active in the field.

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