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Magnification Cross Sections for the Elliptic Umbilic Caustic Surface

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2019-07-29 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that the asymptotic scaling of the magnification volume cross section corresponding to an elliptic umbilic caustic surface is μ2.5\mu^{-2.5} in the two-image region and μ2\mu^{-2} in the four-image region, where μ\mu is the total unsigned magnification.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1905.11974,
  title  = {Magnification Cross Sections for the Elliptic Umbilic Caustic Surface},
  author = {Amir B. Aazami and Charles R. Keeton and Arlie O. Petters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.11974},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

v2: 6 pages, 6 figures, references added, expanded discussion in Section II

R2 v1 2026-06-23T09:29:42.190Z