Quasar microlensing at high magnification and the role of dark matter: Enhanced fluctuations and suppressed saddle points

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 580, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 685-695

  Schechter, Paul L ^a,b   Wambsganss, Joachim ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dark matter; Gravitational lensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041909377     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/343856     Document Type: Article

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