caa a22 4500 445386991 CHVBK 20180317143035.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10714-010-0964-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10714-010-0964-x Dominik Martin SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, KY16 9SS, St Andrews, UK aut The gravitational bending of light by stars: a continuing story of curiosity, scepticism, surprise, and fascination [Elektronische Daten] [Martin Dominik] Driven entirely by human curiosity, the effect of the gravitational bending of light has evolved on unforeseen paths, in an interplay between shifts in prevailing paradigms and advance of technology, into the most unusual way to study planet populations. The confirmation of the bending angle predicted by Einstein with the Solar Eclipse measurements from 1919 marked the breakthrough of the theory of General Relativity, but it was not before the detection of the double image of the quasar 0957+561 that ‘gravitational lensing' really entered the observational era. The observation of a characteristic transient brightening of a star caused by the gravitational deflection of its light by an intervening foreground star, constituting a ‘microlensing event', required even further advance in technology before it could first emerge in 1993. While it required more patience in waiting before ‘Einstein's blip' for the first time revealed the presence of a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun, such detections can now be monitored live, and gravitational microlensing is not only sensitive to masses as low as that of the Moon, but can even reveal planets around stars in galaxies other than the Milky Way. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 Extra-solar planetary systems nationallicence Relativity and gravitation nationallicence History of science nationallicence Science and government nationallicence Photography and photometry nationallicence Gravitational lenses and luminous arcs nationallicence General Relativity and Gravitation Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 43/4(2011-04-01), 989-1006 0001-7701 43:4<989 2011 43 10714 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-010-0964-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-010-0964-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dominik Martin SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, KY16 9SS, St Andrews, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- General Relativity and Gravitation Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 43/4(2011-04-01), 989-1006 0001-7701 43:4<989 2011 43 10714 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer