PIRSA:19030114

Astrophysics and cosmology with gravitationally lensed quasars

Courbin, F. (2019). Astrophysics and cosmology with gravitationally lensed quasars. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/19030114

Courbin, Frederic. Astrophysics and cosmology with gravitationally lensed quasars. Perimeter Institute, Mar. 12, 2019, https://pirsa.org/19030114 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:19030114,
            doi = {10.48660/19030114},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/19030114},
            author = {Courbin, Frederic},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Astrophysics and cosmology with gravitationally lensed quasars},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2019},
            month = {mar},
            note = {PIRSA:19030114 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Frederic Courbin L'Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)

DOI 10.48660/19030114
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Quasars are among the most powerful light sources in the universe and, as such, can be seen at cosmological distances. Is some rare occasions (although not that rare), a massive galaxy on their line of sight can act as a gravitational lens and produce multiple images of distant quasars. These can be used both for cosmology and astrophysics by measuring the so-called time delays between the lensed images from photometric monitoring, a quantity directly related to the Hubble-Lemaître parameter H0. The same data, affected by microlensing by stars in the lensing galaxy, can be used to measure the size and energy profile of quasar accretion disks on spatial scales of the order of the light-day, i.e. inaccessible to even the largest interferometers, including the SKA. The results in this talk are on behalf of the COSMOGRAIL and H0LiCOW collaborations.