Published 2007-04-30
Keywords
- Gravitational lensing,
- simulation,
- mass models
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Abstract
One of the main consequences of the relativistic theory of gravitation is that the space-time curvature has effects that can be observed -and measured with great precision- not only in body mass (mass resting different from zero) but also in the light. In order to illustrate this phenomenon, we design an educational software which includes four models of axially symmetric gravitational lensing, which allows the user to interactwith different parameters such as the font that emits radiation, its position and some characteristics of the object that causes curvature (lens). The interaction can collect a variety of effects of the same phenomenon that enable the study of images and their properties.
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