Supernovae seen through gravitational telescopes

Galaxies, and clusters of galaxies, can act as gravitational lenses and magnify the light of objects behind them. The effect enables observations of very distant supernovae, that otherwise would be too faint to be detected by existing telescopes, and allows studies of the frequency and properties of...

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Main Author: Petrushevska, Tanja
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Fysikum 2017
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