Interactive Visualization of Gravitational Lenses
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چکیده
A tool for the interactive study of gravitational lensing is presented. Gravitational lensing is a known astrophysical phenomenon explained by means of the General Relativity Theory and it is nowadays the only scale independent method for measuring the mean matter density in the Universe. The gravitational lensing problem along with the associated physics is briefly described. The algorithm used to generate the images is presented alongside with images obtained from the application of different models to a circular source. Some possible future developments are outlined.
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