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Microlensing (Astrophysics)

LC control no.sh2002004488
LC classificationQB857.5.G7
Topical headingMicrolensing (Astrophysics)
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Variant(s)Gravitational microlensing
See alsoGravitational lenses
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Found inWork cat.: 2001093952: Microlensing 2000, c2001: p. 3 (gravitational microlensing; microlensing is gravitational lensing where the images are too close to be separately resolved)
Dict. astron. (microlensing: a small-scale gravitational lens effect [in which] the gravitational field of the lensing object is not strong enough to form distinct images of the background source; instead, it causes apparent brightening of the source)
Routledge critical dict. new cosmol.: p. 202 (microlensing)