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Quasar Accretion Disks

Description

We use the variability in lensed quasars produced by stellar microlensing to study the structure of quasar accretion disks, particularly their size as a function of wavelength as a probe of the temperature structure of the disk.

Keywords

quasar, quasar accretion disk, microlensing

Manager UV
  • Muñoz Lozano, Jose Antonio
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
  • Director/a de l'Observatori Astronomic
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