A quasar microlensing light-curve generator for LSST

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dc.contributor.authorNeira, Favio
dc.contributor.authorAnguita, Timo
dc.contributor.authorVernardos, Georgios
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-11T12:25:30Z
dc.date.available2023-11-11T12:25:30Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-01
dc.descriptionIndexación: Scopuses
dc.description.abstractWe present a tool to generate mock quasar microlensing light curves and sample them according to any observing strategy. An updated treatment of the fixed and random velocity components of observer, lens, and source is used, together with a proper alignment with the external shear defining the magnification map caustic orientation. Our tool produces quantitative results on high magnification events and caustic crossings, which we use to study three lensed quasars known to display microlensing, viz. RX J1131–1231, HE 0230–2130, and Q 2237+0305, as they would be monitored by The Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). We conclude that depending on the location on the sky, the lens and source redshift, and the caustic network density, the microlensing variability may deviate significantly than the expected ∼20-yr average time-scale (Mosquera & Kochanek 2011). We estimate that ∼300 high magnification events with Δmag>1 mag could potentially be observed by LSST each year. The duration of the majority of high magnification events is between 10 and 100 d, requiring a very high cadence to capture and resolve them. Uniform LSST observing strategies perform the best in recovering microlensing high magnification events. Our web tool can be extended to any instrument and observing strategy, and is freely available as a service at http://gerlumph.swin.edu.au/tools/lsst generator/, along with all the related code.es
dc.identifier.citationMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 495, Issue 1, Pages 544 - 553 1 June 2020es
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/mnras/staa1208en
dc.identifier.issn0035-8711
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.unab.cl/xmlui/handle/ria/53920
dc.language.isoenes
dc.publisherOxford University Presses
dc.rights.licenseCC BY 4.0 DEED Atribución 4.0 Internacionalen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.esen
dc.subjectAccretiones
dc.subjectAccretion discses
dc.subjectGravitational lensing: Microes
dc.subjectHE 0230–2130es
dc.subjectQ 2237+0305es
dc.subjectQuasars: Generales
dc.subjectQuasars: Individual: RX J1131–1231es
dc.titleA quasar microlensing light-curve generator for LSSTes
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