Magnification relations in gravitational lensing via multidimensional residue integrals
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We investigate the so-called magnification relations of gravitational lensing models. We show that multidimensional residue integrals provide a simple explanation for the existence of these relations, and an effective method of computation. We illustrate the method with several examples, thereby deriving new magnification relations for galaxy lens models and microlensing (point mass lensing).
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0009002,
title = {Magnification relations in gravitational lensing via multidimensional residue integrals},
author = {Neal Dalal and Jeffrey M. Rabin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0009002},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
16 pages, uses revtex4, submitted to Journal of Mathematical Physics