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Hiroshi Yoshida

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Finite source effect on the polarization degree induced by a single microlens

We investigate the effect of a single microlens on Stokes parameters. Semi-analytical formulae of the microlensed Stokes parameters are derived. The formulae not only reduce the double integrals in the estimations of those quantities but can also be approximated to a useful form in the bypass case. By using our formulation, we show that a combination of polarimetric data with photometric data enables us to estimate not only the finite source effect but also the direction of the microlens motion.

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Continuous Limit of Multiple Lens Effect and the Optical Scalar Equation

We study the continuous limit of the multiple gravitational lensing theory based on the thin lens approximation. Under the approximation, we define a new, light-path dependent angular diameter distance $\tilde{d}$ and show that it satisfies the optical scalar equation. The distance provides relations between quantities used in the gravitational lensing theory (the convergence-, the shear- and the twist-term) and those used in the scalar optics theory (the rates of expansion, shear and rotation).

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Continuous Limit of Multiple Gravitational Lens Effect and Average Magnification Factor

We show that the gravitational magnification factor averaged over all configurations of lenses in a locally inhomogeneous universe satisfy a second order differential equation with redshift $z$ by taking the continuous limit of multi-plane gravitational lens equation (the number $N$ of lenses $\to\infty$) and that the gravitationally magnified Dyer-Roeder distance in a clumpy universe becomes to that of the Friedmann-Lema\^ıtre universe for arbitrary values of the density parameter $Ω_{0}$ and of a mass fraction $\barα$ (smoothness parameter).

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