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A Cusp—Counting Formula For Caustics Due To Multiplane Gravitational Lensing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
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Consider a gravitational lens system with K planes. If light rays are traced back from the observer to the light source plane, then the points on the first lens plane where a light ray either terminates, or, passes through and terminates before reaching the light source plane, are “obstruction points.” More precisely, tracing rays back to the source plane induces a K-plane lensing map η : U ⊆ R2 → R2 of the form η(x1) = x1 −∑i=1k αi(xi(xi)). We then define an obstruction point of η to be a point a of U where limx1→a |αi(xi(x1))| = ∞ for some “deflection angle” αi.
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- Chapter 8: Quasar Structure & Microlensing
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