Microlensing of strongly lensed quasars

G Vernardos, D Sluse, D Pooley, RW Schmidt… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Strong gravitational lensing of quasars has the potential to unlock the poorly understood
physics of these fascinating objects, as well as serve as a probe of the lensing mass …

Shadows as a tool to evaluate black hole parameters and a dimension of spacetime

AF Zakharov, F De Paolis, G Ingrosso… - New Astronomy Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Shadow formation around supermassive black holes were simulated. Due to enormous
progress in observational facilities and techniques of data analysis researchers approach to …

Probing the coevolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies using gravitationally lensed quasar hosts

CY Peng, CD Impey, HW Rix… - The Astrophysical …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
In the present-day universe, supermassive black hole masses (Script M BH) appear to be
strongly correlated with their galaxy's bulge luminosity, among other properties. In this study …

Gravitational lensing size scales for quasars

G Chartas, C Rhea, C Kochanek, X Dai… - Astronomische …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We review results from our monitoring observations of several lensed quasars performed in
the optical, UV, and X‐ray bands. Modeling of the multi‐wavelength light curves provides …

Measuring the innermost stable circular orbits of supermassive black holes

G Chartas, H Krawczynski, L Zalesky… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a promising new technique, the g-distribution method, for measuring the
inclination angle (i), the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO), and the spin of a …

Revealing the structure of an accretion disk through energy-dependent X-ray microlensing

G Chartas, CS Kochanek, X Dai, D Moore… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results from monitoring observations of the gravitationally lensed quasar RX
J1131− 1231 performed with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The X-ray observations were …

Probing extragalactic planets using quasar microlensing

X Dai, E Guerras - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Previously, planets have been detected only in the Milky Way galaxy. Here, we show that
quasar microlensing provides a means to probe extragalactic planets in the lens galaxy, by …

Confirmation of planet-mass objects in extragalactic systems

S Bhatiani, X Dai, E Guerras - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Quasar microlensing serves as a unique probe of discrete objects within galaxies and
galaxy clusters. Recent advancement of the technique shows that it can constrain planet …

Quasar microlensing

RW Schmidt, J Wambsganss - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2010 - Springer
Quasar microlensing deals with the effect of compact objects along the line of sight on the
apparent brightness of the background quasars. Due to the relative motion between quasar …

The optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray structure of the quasar HE 0435− 1223

JA Blackburne, CS Kochanek, B Chen… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Microlensing has proved an effective probe of the structure of the innermost regions of
quasars and an important test of accretion disk models. We present light curves of the …