Qualitative aspects of quasar microlensing with two mass components: magnification patterns and probability distributions

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2004-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0403558v2

Astrophys.J. 613 (2004) 77-85

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17 pages, small changes from previous version. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Quality of several figur

Scientific paper

10.1086/422907

It has been conjectured that the distribution of magnifications of a point
source microlensed by a 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.

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