Optical Continuum Sources in Gravitationally Lensed Quasars
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We review some techniques to study the nature and size of the optical continuum sources in multiple QSOs. We focus on the source originating the events with several months timescale (the rapid variability source) as well as the source that is responsible for the non-variable background component (the background source). The techniques are used to study both the rapid variability source in Q0957+561 and the main (compact) background source in Q2237+0305.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0210659,
title = {Optical Continuum Sources in Gravitationally Lensed Quasars},
author = {L. J. Goicoechea and D. Alcalde and V. N. Shalyapin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0210659},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, including 1 figure. To be published in proceedings of the V Scientific Meeting of the SEA (Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics III), Toledo, Spain, September 9-13, 2002. Ed. J. Gallego, J. Zamorano and N. Cardiel, ASSL, Kluwer