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In the roughly 20 years of its existence as an observational science, gravitational lensinghas established itself as a valuable tool in many astrophysical fields. In the introduction of this reviewwe briefly present the basics of lensing. Then it is shown that the two propagation effects, lensing andscintillation, have a number of properties in common. In the main part various lensing phenomenaare discussed with emphasis on recent observations.
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Wambsganss, J. (2001). Gravitational Lensing. In: Strom, R., Bo, P., Walker, M., Rendong, N. (eds) Sources and Scintillations. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1001-6_23
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