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Quasar Variability From Microlensing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

M.R.S. Hawkins
M.R.S. Hawkins*
Affiliation:
Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ

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Quasars are known to vary in brightness over a wide range of time scales. Short term intrinsic variability has been well documented, and a strong case can be made that long term variation is due to microlensing. In this paper the effect of time dilation as a means for distinguishing between intrinsic variation and gravitational lensing is discussed.

Type
Chapter 8: Quasar Structure & Microlensing
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 173: Astrophysical Applications of Gravitational Lensing , 1996 , pp. 291 - 292
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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