Gravitational Lenses

Recollections of the career of Bernard Burke....Pages 3-8
0957+561: The unpublished story....Pages 11-22
History of gravitational lenses and the phenomena they produce....Pages 23-27
The versatile elliptical gravitational lens....Pages 31-37
Gravitational lens optics....Pages 38-52
Gravitational lensing of extended sources....Pages 53-58
Moving gravitational lenses....Pages 59-64
Explaining Burke and Shapiro to Newton....Pages 65-65
Recent optical observations of gravitational lenses....Pages 69-74
VLBI observations of gravitational lenses....Pages 75-76
VLBI phase reference mapping techniques and the search for the third image of 0957+561....Pages 77-81
First VLBI hybrid maps of 0957+561 A and B....Pages 82-83
VLA measurement of the time delay in the gravitationally lensed double quasar 0957+561....Pages 84-89
Optical determinations of the time delay in 0957+561....Pages 90-99
Resolution of galaxy and third image of gravitational lens 2016+112....Pages 100-105
Arcs in clusters of galaxies as gravitational lens images....Pages 109-126
A gravitational telescope in Abell 370: Indeed it works!....Pages 127-133
Observations of the blue arcs in Abell 963....Pages 134-139
Is the giant luminous arc due to lensing by a cosmic string?....Pages 140-143
Results of the VLA gravitational lens survey....Pages 147-158
Optical searches for gravitational lenses....Pages 159-172
An optical imaging survey for gravitational lenses and the discovery of a new lens candidate....Pages 173-178
Statistics of gravitational lenses: Galaxies and dark matter....Pages 179-187
Highly colinear radio sources and constraints on gravitational lens space density....Pages 188-191
Gravitational microlensing....Pages 195-205
Cosmic density estimate from microlensing....Pages 206-208
Micro-lensing model for QSO 2237+0305....Pages 209-215
A viable explanation for quasar-galaxy associations?....Pages 216-221
Reception photographs....Pages 223-231