Monte Carlo simulations of quasars' brightness magnification due to gravitational lensing: the highly luminous quasar HS 1946+7658
Abstract
In this paper we present Monte Carlo simulations of the gravitational (two-plane) lens magnification of the quasar HS 1946+7658 brightness. Depending on the position of the lenses relative to the quasar the magnification of the quasar brightness varies from -0.06 mag to -2.09 mag, and the probability that the quasar brightness is magnified less than -0.50 mag is 97.607%.
- Publication:
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Balkan Meeting of Young Astronomers
- Pub Date:
- 2001
- Bibcode:
- 2001bmya.meet...80M
- Keywords:
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- Quasars;
- Gravitational Lensing