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Contribution of Microlensing to X-ray Variability of Distant QSOs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Alexander F. Zakharov
Affiliation:
Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 25, B.Cheremushkinskaya st., Moscow, 117259, Russia email: zakharov@itep.ru Astro Space Centre of Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia Present address: Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 25, B.Cheremushkinskaya st., Moscow, 117259, Russia.
Luka Č. Popović
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory, Volgina 7, 11160 Beograd, Serbia email: lpopovic@aob.bg.ac.yu Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany, email: lpopovic@aip.de
Predrag Jovanović
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory, Volgina 7, 11160 Beograd, Serbia email: lpopovic@aob.bg.ac.yu
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Abstract

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We consider a contribution of microlensing to the X-ray variability of high-redshifted QSOs. Cosmologically distributed gravitational microlenses could be localized in galaxies (or even in bulge or halo of gravitational macrolenses) or could be distributed in a uniform way. We have analyzed both cases of such distributions. We found that the optical depth for gravitational microlensing caused by cosmologically distributed deflectors could be significant and could reach $10^{-2} - 0.1$ at $z\sim 2$. This means that cosmologically distributed deflectors may contribute significantlly to the X-ray variability of high-redshifted QSOs ($z>2$). Considering that the upper limit of the optical depth ($\tau\sim 0.1$) corresponds to the case where dark matter forms cosmologically distributed deflectors, observations of the X-ray variations of unlensed QSOs can be used for the estimation of the dark matter fraction of microlenses.To search for other articles by the author(s) go to: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

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