Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Feb 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986apj...301..503p&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 301, Feb. 15, 1986, p. 503-516.
Statistics
Computation
213
Gravitational Lenses, Optical Thickness, Quasars, Stellar Gravitation, Computational Astrophysics, Light Curve, Mass Distribution, Monte Carlo Method, Point Sources, Star Distribution
Scientific paper
A large number of numerical models of gravitational microlensing by stars in the lensing galaxy have been calculated, and properties of the models are described. The expected light intensity variations are more rapid when optical depth to microlensing is large, but the time scale is a few years in the best cases, and much longer in a typical case. However, microlensing introduces considerable scatter, up to two or three orders of magnitude, to the intensity of macroimages expected at any given time, and this may considerably complicate the analysis of the observed lenses. It is shown that macroimage is surrounded with a faint 'halo' made of a large number of microimages from individual stars with average surface brightness falling off as R to the -4th. It is also shown that a high surface mass density of continuously distributed matter may affect very strongly properties of microlensing, making possible very large declines in observed intensity, up to two or three orders of magnitude.
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