A partially occulting MACHO-microlensing event in the Twin Quasar Q0957+561

Authors
Publication date 06-2017
Journal Fortschritte der Physik
Article number 1600107
Volume | Issue number 65 | 6-8
Number of pages 9
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract

A doubly-peaked quasar microlensing event in the lensed Twin Quasar Q0957+561 A,B (Colley and Schild 2003) is analysed within several lensing models. In the most realistic model a lens resolves in image B the ellipse shaped, bright inner rim of the quasar's accretion disk, intersecting it twice. This lens weighs 0.5 Earth mass and is located inside the Galaxy, at 3 kpc distance. During the passing, it partially occults the source, which allows to describe it as a primordial gas cloud of 1.4 Solar radius and 17 K temperature, in accordance with the theory of Gravitational Hydrodynamics. Lensing by such objects against the Magellanic Clouds and Galactic centre will also lead to occultation dips.

Document type Article
Note Part of special Issue: Topical issue – International Conference Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics Prague, Czech Republic 27 July – 1 August 2015
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1002/prop.201600107
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