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Magnification relations in gravitational lensing via multidimensional residue integrals

Neal Dalal, Jeffrey M. Rabin

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0009002

Abstract

We investigate the so-called magnification relations of gravitational lensing models. We show that multidimensional residue integrals provide a simple explanation for the existence of these relations, and an effective method of computation. We illustrate the method with several examples, thereby deriving new magnification relations for galaxy lens models and microlensing (point mass lensing).

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