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 …

Strong lensing signatures of self-interacting dark matter in low-mass haloes

D Gilman, J Bovy, T Treu, A Nierenberg… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Core formation and runaway core collapse in models with self-interacting dark matter (SIDM)
significantly alter the central density profiles of collapsed haloes. Using a forward modelling …

Probing dark matter substructure in the gravitational lens HE 0435− 1223 with the WFC3 grism

AM Nierenberg, T Treu, G Brammer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Strong gravitational lensing provides a powerful test of cold dark matter (CDM) as it enables
the detection and mass measurement of low-mass haloes even if they do not contain …

How well can cold dark matter substructures account for the observed radio flux-ratio anomalies

D Xu, D Sluse, L Gao, J Wang, C Frenk… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Discrepancies between the observed and model-predicted radio flux ratios are seen in a
number of quadruply-lensed quasars. The most favoured interpretation of these anomalies …

JWST lensed quasar dark matter survey I: Description and first results

AM Nierenberg, RE Keeley, D Sluse, D Gilman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The flux ratios of gravitationally lensed quasars provide a powerful probe of the nature of
dark matter. Importantly, these ratios are sensitive to small-scale structure, irrespective of the …

A calibration of the stellar mass fundamental plane at z∼ 0.5 using the micro-lensing-induced flux ratio anomalies of macro-lensed quasars

PL Schechter, D Pooley, JA Blackburne… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We measure the stellar mass surface densities of early-type galaxies by observing the micro-
lensing of macro-lensed quasars caused by individual stars, including stellar remnants …

Detection of substructure in the gravitationally lensed quasar MG0414+ 0534 using mid-infrared and radio VLBI observations

CL MacLeod, R Jones, E Agol… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present 11.2 μm observations of the gravitationally lensed, radio-loud zs= 2.64 quasar
MG0414+ 0534, obtained using the Michelle camera on Gemini North. We find a flux ratio …

GAMMA-RAY FLARING ACTIVITY FROM THE GRAVITATIONALLY LENSED BLAZAR PKS 1830− 211 OBSERVED BY Fermi LAT

AA Abdo, M Ackermann, M Ajello… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space
Telescope routinely detects the MeV-peaked flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 1830− 211 (z …

Observations of radio-quiet quasars at 10-mas resolution by use of gravitational lensing

N Jackson, AS Tagore, C Roberts… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We present Very Large Array detections of radio emission in 4 four-image
gravitational lens systems with quasar sources: HS 0810+ 2554, RX J0911+ 0511, HE …

Revealing the structure of the lensed quasar Q 0957+ 561-I. Accretion disk size

C Fian, E Mediavilla, J Jiménez-Vicente… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Aims. We aim to use signatures of microlensing induced by stars in the foreground lens
galaxy to infer the size of the accretion disk in the gravitationally lensed quasar Q 0957+ …