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Gravitational Lensing in Astronomy Open in a new windowLink Details
- Review article by Joachim Wambsganss, published in Living Reviews in Relativity. Provides a brief history of gravitational lensing, an overview of the basic physics and of the variety of lensing phenomena, and an outlook on future research.
- http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-1998-12/

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Weak Gravitational Lensing Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article by Matthias Bartelmann and Peter Schneider about the statistical analysis of weak lensing effects that can be used to gain information about the large-scale mass distribution within our Universe.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912508

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Strong and Weak Lensing Constraints on Galaxy Mass Distribution Open in a new windowLink Details
- Review article by Jean-Paul Kneib about the way that gravitational lensing can be used to infer the mass distribution of galaxies (including the detection of dark matter).
- http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0112123

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HubbleSite News Center: Gravitational Lenses Open in a new windowLink Details
- List of images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of Gravitational Lenses (including the famous Einstein Cross picture); updated continually.
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/exotic/gravitational-lens/

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Gravitational Lensing from a Spacetime Perspective Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article by Volker Perlick (Technical University, Berlin) published in Living Reviews in Relativity about gravitational lensing in curved spacetime (as opposed to descriptions that rely on slight relativistic deviations from the Newtonian-Euclidean descrip
- http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2004-9/index.html

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Gravitational Lenses Open in a new windowLink Details
- Site hosted by the Université de Liège; features a bibliography, a list of lensing candidates, and descriptions of didactical experiments (involving glass lenses) useful for a better understanding of the phenomenon.
- http://vela.astro.ulg.ac.be/themes/extragal/gravlens/bibdat/engl/grav_lens.html

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Gravitational Lens Data Base Open in a new windowLink Details
- Homepage of CASTLEs, a gravitational lensing survey based at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The main feature is a data base, complete with images, of all gravitational lens candidates that astronomers have identified so far.
- http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/castles/

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Lens an Astrophysicist! Open in a new windowLink Details
- Interactive Java applet by Pete Kernan (Case Western Reserve University) that allows the visitor to take any of a number of images of astrophysicists, or specify an image by its URL, and explore how it would be distorted by different kinds of gravitation
- http://theory2.phys.cwru.edu/~pete/GravitationalLens/

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Lectures on Gravitational Lensing Open in a new windowLink Details
- Lecture notes by Ramesh Narayan (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and Matthias Bartelmann (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy) about the basic concepts and applications of gravitational lensing.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9606001

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Gravitational Lensing Open in a new windowLink Details
- A popular site with interactive demonstrations of gravitational lensing. The background material is at a graduate level
- http://www.iam.ubc.ca/~newbury/lenses/lenses.html

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