Qualitative Aspects of Quasar Microlensing with Two Mass Components: Magnification Patterns and Probability Distributions
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Qualitative aspects of quasar microlensing with two mass components: magnification patterns and probability distributions
It has been conjectured that the distribution of magnifications of a point source microlensed by a randomly distributed population of intervening point masses is independent of its mass spectrum. We present gedanken experiments that cast doubt on this conjecture and numerical simulations that show it to be false. Subject headings: Cosmology: Dark Matter, Cosmology: Gravitational Lensing, Galaxi...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Astrophysical Journal
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0004-637X,1538-4357
DOI: 10.1086/422907