Gravitational Lensing as a Tool on Galactic and Cosmological Scales

This work considers the reconstruction of strong gravitational lenses from their observed effects on the light distribution of background sources. After reviewing the formalism of gravitational lensing and the most common and relevant lens models, new analytical results on the elliptical power law...

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Main Author: Tessore, Nicolas <1986>
Other Authors: Moscardini, Lauro
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:en
Published: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna 2015
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Online Access:http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7238/