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- From: mock@space.mit.edu (Patrick C. Mock)
- Subject: Re: grav lensing
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.230924.8143@athena.mit.edu>
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- References: <1992Jul16.054251.18577@athena.mit.edu> <BrMAwC.8K9@well.sf.ca.us> <1992Jul20.211303.9807@athena.mit.edu> <Bs0KxG.Lo2@well.sf.ca.us>
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:09:24 GMT
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- In article <Bs0KxG.Lo2@well.sf.ca.us>, metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern) writes:
- > ...
- > My argument is simple and easy for anyone to grasp. The counter-
- > arguments you have quoted require considerable work to grasp even the
- > essentials, and then they seem so skirt the basic point I have made here: the
- > *shape* of the image of a point source being gravitationally lensed will be a
- > ring-arc in general, or a full ring if axial alignment is quite close.
- > Moreover, that is what is observed in the only cases which everyone here
- > agrees are true gravitational lenses, namely galactic clusters lensing
- > background blue objects.
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- An addendum to my previous post. The blue background objects have been
- show to be extended sources. Using standard physics, a gravitational lens
- will almost always generate an arc from an extended source.
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- Pat
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