New Horizons in Space-Time: Gravitational Lensing and Cosmology
A special issue of Galaxies (ISSN 2075-4434).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 505
Special Issue Editor
Interests: black holes; gravitational lensing; cosmology
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Dear Colleagues,
Gravitational lensing provides a very powerful view of modern cosmology. Regimes of gravitational lensing depend on gravitational lens masses. For lenses with stellar masses, this regime is called microlensing. Microlensing is used for searches of exoplanets. A number of microlenses were discovered, and in recent years, some of them have been used to find exoplanets. Investigations of gravitational lens systems offer additional opportunities to study the most distant galaxies and quasars. For example, the recent launch of JWST introduced new horizons. Weak gravitational lensing can be used to investigate dark matter distributions in galactic clusters. The gravitational lensing of CMB is also very important issue. In recent years, strong gravitational lensing in a strong gravitational field was studied in terms of the details and relationships of these investigations with shadow formations near nearby supermassive black holes.
The editor of the Special Issue encourages researchers to submit studies on theoretical and observational aspects of gravitational lensing in different regimes and possible applications of this phenomenon in cosmology.
Prof. Dr. Alexander F. Zakharov
Guest Editor
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