Constraining quasar structure using high-frequency microlensing variations and continuum reverberation
E. Paic,
G. Vernardos,
D. Sluse
et al.
Abstract:Gravitational microlensing is a powerful tool to probe the inner structure of strongly lensed quasars and to constrain parameters of the stellar mass function of lens galaxies. This is done by analysing microlensing light curves between the multiple images of strongly lensed quasars, under the influence of three main variable components: 1-the continuum flux of the source, 2-microlensing by stars in the lens galaxy and 3-reverberation of the continuum by the Broad Line Region (BLR). The latter, ignored by stat… Show more
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