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Hier finden Sie wissenschaftliche Publikationen aus den Fraunhofer-Instituten. An optical n-body gravitational lens analogy
| American journal of physics 89 (2021), No.1, pp.11-20 ISSN: 0002-9505 (Print) ISSN: 0096-0322 (print) ISSN: 1943-2909 (online) |
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| English |
| Journal Article, Electronic Publication |
| Fraunhofer IOF () |
Abstract
Raised menisci around small discs positioned to pull up a water-air interface provide a highly controllable experimental setup capable of reproducing much of the rich phenomenology of gravitational lensing (or microlensing) by n-body clusters. Results are shown for single, binary, and triple mass systems. The scheme represents a versatile testbench for the (astro)physics of general relativity's gravitational lens effects, including high multiplicity imaging of extended sources.