Cosmology with strong lensing systems

Cosmology with strong lensing systems

Marek Biesiada

Strong gravitational lensing has now developed into a mature tool for investigating galactic structure and dynamics as well as cosmological models. In this lecture the phenomenon of strong gravitational lensing, its history and applications are reviewed with an emphasis on the recent ideas developed by the author. Expected massive discoveries of strong lensing galactic scale systems in forthcoming projects like Euclid or LSST herald the bright future of gravitational lensing in cosmology.

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 4, 85-95 (2017)

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