Résumé / Abstract

Cours de l'IAP / Lectures of the IAP

«  Gravitational lensing, from planets to clusters of galaxies 4  »

Christophe Alard
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (Paris, France)

Lecture 4 : First cosmological applications: quasars

4.1) Specific examples of quasars lensing by galaxies

4.2) Basic modeling of quasar lensing by galaxies
4.2.1) The mass-sheet degeneracy
4.2.2) Simple models
4.2.3) Perturbations by dark matter substructures

4.3) Time delays
4.3.1) Basic physics of time delays
4.3.2) Specific examples
4.3.3) Constraining cosmological parameters using time delays

4.4) Perturbation of the lens by local stars: microlensing
4.4.1) Basic physics of the perturbation
4.4.2) Reconstruction of the local caustics maps
4.4.3) Resolving the fine structure of the quasar source

Full program at
http://www2.iap.fr/users/alard/cours_lensing.pdf
lundi 31 janvier 2022 - 15:00
Amphithéâtre Henri Mineur, Institut d'Astrophysique
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