Gravitational lenses with more than four images. I. Classification of caustics

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 537, Issue 2 PART 1, 2000, Pages 697-707

  Keeton, Charles R ^a   Mao, Shude ^b,c   Witt, Hans J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^d ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distance scale; Gravitational lensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034422315     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/309087     Document Type: Article

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