Gravitational Lensing
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 6928
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Gravitational lensing is currently a prime tool to investigate a number of astrophysical problems: From understanding the structure of our own galaxy, to searching for extrasolar planets, from studying the distribution of matter in galaxies and galaxy clusters, to understanding the nature of the main constituents of our universe, dark matter, and dark energy. A century passed since Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity and since then, the accomplishments of gravitational lensing have been huge. This Special Issue wants to focus on the most recent developments in this field of astronomy and discuss what are the open questions that lensing can help to answer in the near future. Not only will the next years see the launch of missions like Euclid and WFIRST, but a new generation of instruments and telescopes, both on the ground and in space, will be available to the lensing community. The number of gravitational lenses discovered will increase by orders of magnitude and it will be possible to study a large number of them with unprecedented levels of details at different wavelengths.
Prof. Dr. Massimo Meneghetti
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Microlensing
- Weak and strong lensing by galaxies and galaxy clusters
- Cosmological weak lensing and CMB lensing
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