Gravitational microlensing and the search for extrasolar planets

Includes bibliographical references. === This project is aimed at tackling binary gravitational microlensing events. Since the early conception of gravitational lensing before Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, physicists and astronomers of the early 18th century speculated that light, if trea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mengistie, Getachew Mekonnen
Other Authors: Feast, Michael
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9798