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Separating Intrinsic And Microlensing Variability Using Parallax Measurements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Stein Vidar Hagfors Haugan*
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Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Pb. 1029, Blindern, N-0315 OSLO http://www.uio.no/~steinhh/index.html

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In gravitational lens systems with 3 or more resolved images of a quasar, the intrinsic variability may be unambiguously separated from the microlensing variability through parallax measurements from 3 observers when there is no relative motion of the lens masses (Refsdal 1993). In systems with fewer than 3 resolved images, however, this separation is not straightforward. For the purpose of illustration, I make the following simplifications for the one-dimensional case: The observations consist of well-sampled time series of the observed flux F A (ti ) and F B (ti ) at two points in the observer plane. The separation vector of the two points is parallel to the direction of the transverse motion of the source-lens-observer system, and the distance D AB between the observers is known. Furthermore, the distance D AB is small compared to the typical length scale of fluctuations in the magnification μ(x).

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

References

Refsdal, S. 1993, in Gravitational Lenses in the Universe, eds. Surdej, et al., Université de Liège, Belgium Google Scholar