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 …

The longest delay: a 14.5 yr campaign to determine the third time delay in the lensing cluster SDSS J1004+ 4112

JA Muñoz, CS Kochanek, J Fohlmeister… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new light curves for the four bright images of the five image cluster-lensed
quasar gravitational lens system SDSS J1004+ 4112. The light curves span 14.5 yr and …

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 …

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 …

Microlensing of the broad emission line region in the lensed quasar J1004+ 4112

D Hutsemékers, D Sluse, Đ Savić… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
J1004+ 4112 is a lensed quasar for which the first broad emission line profile deformations
due to microlensing were identified. Detailed interpretations of these features have …

Fast multipole method for gravitational lensing: application to high-magnification quasar microlensing

J Jiménez-Vicente, E Mediavilla - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce the use of the fast multipole method (FMM) to speed up gravitational lensing
ray tracing calculations. The method allows very fast calculation of ray deflections when a …

Using strong lensing to understand the microJy radio emission in two radio quiet quasars at redshift 1.7

P Hartley, N Jackson, S Badole… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The radio quasar luminosity function exhibits an upturn around W Hz− 1 that is well-
modelled by a star-forming host galaxy population. This distribution leads some authors to …

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 …

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 …