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The Future of Gravitational Optics

Author(s) -

R. D. Blandford

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

publications of the astronomical society of the pacific

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.294

H-Index - 172

eISSN - 1538-3873

pISSN - 0004-6280

DOI - 10.1086/323901

Subject(s) - physics , sky , astronomy , planet , gravitation , universe , astrophysics , dark matter , gravitational wave , theoretical physics

In this speculative, millenial essay, I try to anticipate what sort of novelgravitational optics investigations might be observed, after it becomespossible to map and monitor roughly a trillion sources (of which a billion maybe usefully variable) comprehensively throughout electromagnetic and otherspectra over the whole sky. Existing techniques suffice to produce threedimensional maps of the dark matter distribution of the accessible universe, toexplore black hole spacetimes and to magnify images of the first luminoussources, terrestrial planets and compact objects.Comment: 4 pages PASP Millenium Essay in pres

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