Microlensing results from APO monitoring of the double quasar Q0957+561A,B between 1995 and 1998

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2000-10-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0010232v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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A&A Letters, in press (LaTeX, 4 pages, 5 eps figures)

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If the halo of the lensing galaxy 0957+561 is made of massive compact objects (MACHOs), they must affect the lightcurves of the quasar images Q0957+561 A and B differently. We search for this microlensing effect in the double quasar by comparing monitoring data for the two images A and B - obtained with the 3.5m Apache Point Observatory from 1995 to 1998 - with intensive numerical simulations. This way we test whether the halo of the lensing galaxy can be made of MACHOs of various masses. We can exclude a halo entirely made out of MACHOs with masses between 10e(-6) Msun and 10e(-2) Msun for quasar sizes of less than 3*10e(14)cm (h = 0.6), hereby extending previous limits upwards by one order of magnitude.

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