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The strong galaxy-galaxy lensing produces highly magnified and distorted images of background galaxies in the form of arcs and Einstein rings. Statistically, these effects are quantified, for example, in the number counts of highly luminous sub-millimeter galaxies and of gravitational arcs. Two key quantities to model these statistics are the magnification and the arc cross sections. These are usually computed using either the circular infinitesimal source approximation or ray-tracing simulations for sources of finite size. In this work, we use an analytic solution for gravitational arcs to obtain these cross sections as a function of image magnification and length-to-width ratio in closed form, for finite sources. These analytical solutions provide simple interpretations to the numerical results, can be employed to test the computational codes, and can be used for fast a computation of the abundance of distant sources and arcs. In this paper, the lens is modeled by a Singular Isothermal Sphere, which is an excellent approximation to radial density profile of Early-Type galaxies, and the sources are also axisymmetric. We derive expressions for the geometrical properties of the images, such as the area and several definitions of length and width. We obtain the magnification cross section in exact form and derive a simple analytic approximation covering the arc and Einstein ring regimes. The arc cross section is obtained down to the formation of an Einstein ring and given in terms of elementary functions. Perturbative expansions of these results are worked out, showing explicitly the correction terms for finite sources., Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

We adapt the well known "displace, cut and reflect" method to construct exact solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations corresponding to infinitesimally thin disks of matter endowed with dipole magnetic fields, which are entirely supported by surface polar currents on the disk. Our starting point is the Gutsunaev-Manko axisymmetric solution describing massive magnetic dipoles in General Relativity, from which we obtain a continuous three-parameter family of asymptotically flat static magnetized disks with finite mass and energy. For strong magnetic fields, the disk surface density profile resembles some well known self-gravitating ring-like structures. We show that many of these solutions can be indeed stable and, hence, they could be in principle useful for the study of the abundant astrophysical situations involving disks of matter and magnetic fields., Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures; Accepted for publication in Physical Review D