Double dark matter vision: twice the number of compact-source lenses with narrow-line lensing and the WFC3 grism

AM Nierenberg, D Gilman, T Treu… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The magnifications of compact-source lenses are extremely sensitive to the presence of low-
mass dark matter haloes along the entire sightline from the source to the observer …

Free-form and hybrid lens models for SDSS J1004+ 4112: substructure and central image time delay constraints

D Perera, LLR Williams, J Liesenborgs… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT SDSS J1004+ 4112 is a well-studied gravitational lens with a recently
measured time delay between its first and fourth arriving quasar images. Using this new …

An efficient method for simulating light curves of cosmological microlensing and caustic crossing events

AK Meena, O Arad, A Zitrin - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A new window to observing individual stars and other small sources at
cosmological distances was opened recently, with the detection of several caustic-crossing …

A Mass Model for the Lensing Cluster SDSS J1004+ 4112: Constraints from the Third Time Delay

R Forés-Toribio, JA Muñoz, CS Kochanek… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We have built a new model for the lens system SDSS J1004+ 4112 including the recently
measured time delay of the fourth quasar image. This time delay has a strong influence on …

An improved GPU-based ray-shooting code for gravitational microlensing

W Zheng, X Chen, G Li, HZ Chen - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an improved inverse-ray-shooting code based on graphics processing units
(GPUs) to generate microlensing magnification maps. In addition to introducing GPUs to …

Microlensing of the broad emission lines in 27 gravitationally lensed quasars-Broad line region structure and kinematics

C Fian, E Mediavilla, V Motta… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Aims. We aim to study the structure and kinematics of the broad line region (BLR) of a
sample of 27 gravitationally lensed quasars with up to five different epochs of observation …

Geometry and kinematics of the broad emission line region in the lensed quasar Q2237+ 0305

D Hutsemékers, D Sluse - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2021 - aanda.org
Line profile distortions are commonly observed in gravitationally lensed quasar spectra.
These distortions are caused by microlensing from the stars in the lensing galaxy, which …

Survey of Gravitationally Lensed Objects in HSC Imaging (SuGOHI)–VII. Discovery and confirmation of three strongly lensed quasars

AT Jaelani, CE Rusu, I Kayo, A More… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present spectroscopic confirmation of three new two-image gravitationally lensed
quasars, compiled from existing strong lens and X-ray catalogues. Images of HSC J091843 …

First Direct Evidence for Keplerian Rotation in Quasar Inner Broad-line Regions

C Fian, J Jiménez-Vicente, E Mediavilla… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce a novel method to derive rotation curves with light-day spatial resolution of the
inner regions of lensed quasars. We aim to probe the kinematics of the inner part of the …

Probing the structure of the lensed quasar SDSS J1004+ 4112 through microlensing analysis of spectroscopic data

C Fian, JA Muñoz, R Forés-Toribio… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Aims. We aim to reveal the sizes of the continuum and broad emission line (BEL) emitting
regions in the gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1004+ 4112 by analyzing the unique …