Gravitational Lensing

News:

• Sign-up link for final oral exam on Feb 17/18 is:

https://strawpoll.com/polls/GeZAR2rYPyV

Please sign up by February 7, 2025 (last day of lecture).

Lectures:

   Fridays from 10:15-11:45 in TUM Physics II room 227

   First lecture: October 18, 2024 at 10:15  

Lecturer:

   Prof. Dr. Sherry Suyu

Tutorials:

   Tuesdays from 10:15-11:45 at PH 3024

   First session starts on November 5, 2024.

Tutors:

  Dr. Irham Andika

  Dr. Aymeric Galan

Topics:

• gravitational lens theory

• simple lens models

• cosmological standard model

• lensing statistics

• galactic microlensing

• strong lensing by galaxies and galaxy clusters

• weak lensing

Textbooks:

• Gravitational Lensing: Strong, Weak and Micro
  by Peter Schneider, Christopher Kochanek, Joachim Wambsganß (2006).

• Gravitational Lenses
  by Peter Schneider, Jürgen Ehlers, Emilio E. Falco (1992). 

Papers for Presentations 

Each presentation group could have 1-3 students.  Possible papers for presentations are:

• Central Image and Black Hole (Winn et al. 2004)

• Measuring the mass of black hole hosts (Millon et al. 2023)

• Bullet Cluster and Dark Matter (Clowe et al. 2006)

• Supernova Refsdal (Kelly et al. 2015)

• Strongly Lensed SN Ia (Goobar et al. 2017)

• Planet Detection (Han et al. 2013)

• Highly Magnified Star at Redshift 6.2 (Welch et al. 2022)

• Microlensing events / magnified transients in a cluster arc (Fudamoto et al. 2024)

• Dusty Starburst Galaxies (Vieira et al. 2013)

Here is the link to sign up for paper to present on Friday Feb 7, 2025 (last lecture).  Please view the poll results, before you sign up for a paper.  If your paper of choice has been selected by someone else, then please either team up or choose another paper that has not yet been selected.

https://strawpoll.com/ajnE18QGAnW