Weak Gravitational Lensing
Matthias Bartelmann and Peter Schneider
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik,
Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 1
D-85740 Garching, Germany
Abstract:
We review theory and applications of weak gravitational lensing. After
summarising Friedmann-Lemaître cosmological models, we present the
formalism of gravitational lensing and light propagation in arbitrary
space-times. We discuss how weak-lensing effects can be measured. The
formalism is then applied to reconstructions of galaxy-cluster mass
distributions, gravitational lensing by large-scale matter
distributions, QSO-galaxy correlations induced by weak lensing,
lensing of galaxies by galaxies, and weak lensing of the cosmic
microwave background.
Physics Reports 340, 291 (2001)
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