Gravitational Lensing

News:

• Final tutorial session will be a Q&A session on Feb 20 at 14:15-15:45 at room PH 3024, instead of Feb 6.

• Paper presentations on Feb 9:
  https://strawpoll.com/BJnX8v5oPnv

Lectures:

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

   First lecture: October 20, 2023 at 10:15  

Lecturer:

   Prof. Dr. Sherry Suyu

Tutorials:

   Tuesdays from 14:15-15:45 at PH 3024

   First session starts on November 7, 2023.

Tutors:

  Dr. Irham Andika

  Ms. Jana Grupa

  Dr. Simon Huber 

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)

• 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)

• Dusty Starburst Galaxies (Vieira et al. 2013)