Institut f. Astrophysik und Extraterrestrische Forschung

Gravitational Lensing

Recent research highlights First Mass-Selected Dark Matter Halo Detection of Cosmic Shear

Overview on the gravitational lens effect:

 Galaxies as Lenses       Galaxy Clusters as Lenses       The Weak Lensing Effect

 Galaxien als Linsen       Galaxienhaufen als Linsen       Der schwache Linseneffekt

 Gravitational Lensing Seminar at AIUB

Literature

Popular articles and didactical material

• Das Universum als Teleskop: Wie stark täuscht uns der Gravitationslinseneffekt? by Matthias Bartelmann
• Numerische Simulationen zum starken Gravitationslinseneffekt in Galaxienhaufen by Matthias Steinmetz, Matthias Bartelmann and Achim Weiss
• Gravitational Lensing, a Webpage by Pete Newbury
• Weak Lensing by Large Scale Structure, a page on Weak Lensing by Alexandre Refregier
• The Universe as Telescope: Uses of Gravitational Lensing, a Webpage by Craig Wiegert

General Lensing Reviews

• The monograph Gravitational Lenses by Peter Schneider, Jürgen Ehlers & Emilio E. Falco was published by Springer-Verlag 1992; whereas the most recent developments are not included, it provides a thorough treatment of the basic lensing theory, its techniques, and its derivation from General Relativity.
• The review Gravitational Lensing in Astronomy by Joachim Wambsganss provides a very useful overview of more recent developments, with emphasis on strong lensing phenomena
• The Lectures on Gravitational Lensing by Ramesh Narayan and Matthias Bartelmann are extremely useful for a first overview over most of the known lensing phenomena, also including weak gravitational lensing

Weak Lensing

• The recent review on Weak Gravitational Lensing by Matthias Bartelmann and Peter Schneider summarizes the theory and applications of the weak lensing phenomena, together with observational results. It is much more technical than
• the review Probing the Universe with Weak Lensing by Yannick Mellier, where a complete and less technical overview of the field is given.

Galactic Microlensing

• Gravitational Microlensing in the Local Group by Bohdan Paczynski
• Microlensing by Esteban Roulet and Silvia Mollerach
• Gravitational Microlensing: Past, Present and Future by Shude Mao
• The 24-Hour Night Shift: Astronomy from Microlensing Monitoring Networks by Penny Sackett

Overview

• Lensing on galaxy-mass scales,
• Galactic microlensing,
• Cluster lensing,
• Lensing by the large-scale matter distribution in the Universe.