Model-independent and model-based local lensing properties of B0128+437 from resolved quasar images

The galaxy-scale gravitational lens B0128+437 generates a quadrupole-image configuration of a background quasar that shows milli-arcsecond-scale subcomponents in the multiple images observed with VLBI. As this multiple-image configuration including the subcomponents has eluded a simple parametric le...

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Main Authors: Wagner, Jennifer (Author) , Williams, Liliya L. (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 11 March 2020
In: Astronomy and astrophysics
Year: 2020, Volume: 635
ISSN:1432-0746
DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/201936628
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