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Gravitational Lensing as a Cosmological Probe

J. -P. Kneib

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9711334

Abstract

Gravitational Lensing is an efficient tool to probe: the mass distribution of collapsed systems: galaxies and clusters; high redshift objects thanks to the gravitational amplification; and the geometry of the Universe. I will review here some important aspects of lensing and related issues in observational cosmology.

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