Gravitational lens mapping for locations of flares on a quasar accretion disk

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Yonehara, A [1 ]
Mineshige, S [1 ]
Chartas, G [1 ]
Turner, EL [1 ]
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[1] Kyoto Univ, Dept Astron, Sakyo Ku, Kyoto 6068502, Japan
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NEW CENTURY OF X-RAY ASTRONOMY | 2001年 / 251卷
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The origin of variabilities in quasars can be superpositions of flares on the central engine, i.e., accretion disk. Due to the extremely small angular size of the accretion disk, we cannot directly resolve the locations of such flares by using current observational instruments. In the case of gravitationally lensed quasar, however, such fine resolution will be achievable without imaging observations, but with photometric observations.
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