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Microlensing in the lensed quasar UM 425?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

F. Courbin
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Shwarzschild-Straße 2, D-85748 Garching bei München
K. C. Sahu
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Shwarzschild-Straße 2, D-85748 Garching bei München
G. Meylan
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Shwarzschild-Straße 2, D-85748 Garching bei München

Abstract

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During the ESO key-program on gravitational lenses, the light curves of two images (A and B) of the lensed quasar UM 425 were obtained (from 1987 to 1995). This poster presents a possible interpretation of the light curves in terms of a micro-lensing event in the faint B component of the system, without ruling out a possible intrinsic variation of the source.

Type
Chapter 8: Quasar Structure & Microlensing
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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