A microlensing study of the accretion disc in the quasar MG 0414+0534★

2008/10/07 by N. F. Bate, D. J. E. Floyd, R. L. Webster +1 · 93 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Accretion (finance) #Accretion disc #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Gravitational lens #Gravitational microlensing #Hubble space telescope #Quasar #Telescope #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14020.x

published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 391(4), 1955-1960 (Oxford University Press) · 7 pages, 4 figures, MNRAS accepted

arxiv created 2008/10/07 · openalex publication_date 2008/11/24 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Observations of gravitational microlensing in multiply imaged quasars currently provide the only direct probe of quasar emission region structure on sub-microarcsecond scales. Analyses of microlensing variability are observationally expensive, requiring

Citations

• The Gravitational Lens MG 0414+0534: A Link between Red Galaxies and Dust
• Redshifts of the Gravitational Lenses MG 0414+0534 and MG 0751+2716
• Size Is Everything: Universal Features of Quasar Microlensing with Extended Sources
• A gravitational microlensing determination of continuum source size in Q2237+0305
• A small source in Q2237+0305?

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