Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-lnqnp Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T18:07:48.900Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Gravitational Lensing: Past and Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

J.A. Peacock
J.A. Peacock
Affiliation:
Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK. email: [email protected]
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The subject of gravitational lensing is now a mature discipline, with an automatic place in cosmology. The robust mass measures provided by lensing are one of the key reasons for having confidence in the standard model of structure formation. For the future, things are more challenging: the next set of interesting questions requires the measurement of small effects with non-trivial systematics. The real question will be whether lensing can overcome these problems rapidly enough that it becomes the most precise probe of the cosmological parameters, in particular the equation of state of the vacuum and its evolution.To search for other articles by the author(s) go to: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2004 , Issue IAUS225 , July 2004 , pp. 429 - 442
Copyright
© 2004 International Astronomical Union