1997/11/27 by Jean‐Paul Kneib, J. -P. Kneib, Kneib, J. -P.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #History and Developments in Astronomy #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9711334
10 pages LaTeX using sprocl.sty. To appear in the 12 th Postdam Cosmology Workshop, "Large Scale Structure: Tracks and Traces", World Scientific 1998
arxiv created 1997/11/27 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
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.