2010
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0209
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Gravitational lensing: a unique probe of dark matter and dark energy

Abstract: I review the development of gravitational lensing as a powerful tool of the observational cosmologist. After the historic eclipse expedition organized by Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson, the subject lay observationally dormant for 60 years. However, subsequent progress has been astonishingly rapid, especially in the past decade, so that gravitational lensing now holds the key to unravelling the two most profound mysteries of our Universe—the nature and distribution of dark matter, and the origin of the puzzli… Show more

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“…would provide the extra attraction for the rotation curves and an extra deflection for lensing ("This distribution is spacially more extended than that of the visible baryons, demonstrating clearly the existence of dark matter" [30]), although alternative explanations have been proposed as well as for the bullet cluster [31]. Indeed that would result in an extra 1 r term in the previous equation (accounting for a constant v in the halo) equivalent to a modification of the acceleration in Newton's law [32].…”
Section: Structures A) Cmb and The Event Horizonmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…would provide the extra attraction for the rotation curves and an extra deflection for lensing ("This distribution is spacially more extended than that of the visible baryons, demonstrating clearly the existence of dark matter" [30]), although alternative explanations have been proposed as well as for the bullet cluster [31]. Indeed that would result in an extra 1 r term in the previous equation (accounting for a constant v in the halo) equivalent to a modification of the acceleration in Newton's law [32].…”
Section: Structures A) Cmb and The Event Horizonmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Several methods are used to study the content and distribution of DM, for example the virial theorem (see , the X-ray properties of the emitting hot gas (see Buote & Humphrey 2012 for a review, Nagino & Matsushita 2009), the dispersion velocities of kinematical tracers and stellar dynamics (see Gerhard 2010 for a review; Napolitano et al 2011) and combining weak and strong lensing data (see Ellis 2010 andTreu 2010 for a review).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A recent review on this physical theory (deflection of light rays due to the gravitation) can be found in [6], where some multi-shape geometry is also discussed.…”
Section: Some Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Let t n ∈ (0, b](b > 0) be a sequence, Δ ⊂ (0, b] be a segment, and let the indices ξ(n) be defined as in Eq. (6). We say that the map ξ : N → N enumerates t n on Δ and t ξ(k) (k = 1, 2, .…”
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confidence: 99%