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Martin Raoul Robert Millon
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Accretion Disk Size and Updated Time-delay Measurements in the Gravitationally Lensed Quasar SDSS J165043.44+425149.3
Frédéric Courbin, Martin Raoul Robert Millon
We analyze variability in 15-season optical lightcurves from the doubly imaged lensed quasar SDSS J165043.44+425149.3 (SDSS1650), comprising five seasons of monitoring data from the Maidanak Observatory (277 nights in total, including the two seasons of da ...
Iop Publishing Ltd2024Time-Delay Cosmography: Measuring the Hubble Constant and Other Cosmological Parameters with Strong Gravitational Lensing
Frédéric Courbin, Martin Raoul Robert Millon
Multiply lensed images of a same source experience a relative time delay in the arrival of photons due to the path length difference and the different gravitational potentials the photons travel through. This effect can be used to measure absolute distance ...
Springer2024Strong gravitational lensing by AGNs as a probe of the quasar-host relations in the distant Universe
Frédéric Courbin, Martin Raoul Robert Millon, Aymeric Alexandre Galan, Malte Tewes
A rare case of a quasar acting as a gravitational lens allows a precise determination of the mass of the quasar's host galaxy and offers a new path to studying the connections between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies. The tight correlations ...
NATURE PORTFOLIO2023The Magnificent Five Images of Supernova Refsdal: Time Delay and Magnification Measurements
Martin Raoul Robert Millon, Mathilde Jauzac, Vivien François Bonvin, Anja Von der Linden
In late 2014, four images of Supernova (SN) "Refsdal," the first known example of a strongly lensed SN with multiple resolved images, were detected in the MACS J1149 galaxy-cluster field. Following the images' discovery, the SN was predicted to reappear wi ...
IOP Publishing Ltd2023Probing compact dark matter objects with microlensing in gravitationally lensed quasars
Frédéric Courbin, Martin Raoul Robert Millon, Eric Gérard Guy Paic, Hung-Hsu Chan, Petra Awad
The microlensing signal in the light curves of gravitationally lensed quasars can shed light on the dark matter (DM) composition in their lensing galaxies. Here, we investigate a sample of six lensed quasars from the most recent and best COSMOGRAIL observa ...
EDP SCIENCES S A2023The impact of human expert visual inspection on the discovery of strong gravitational lenses
Frédéric Courbin, Benjamin Yvan Alexandre Clement, Martin Raoul Robert Millon, Eric Gérard Guy Paic, Hung-Hsu Chan, Karina Alexandra Rojas Olate, Rémy Elie Joseph, Elodie Marie Charlène Savary, Yue Pan
We investigate the ability of human 'expert' classifiers to identify strong gravitational lens candidates in Dark Energy Survey like imaging. We recruited a total of 55 people that completed more than 25 per cent of the project. During the classification t ...
OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023Constraints on the Hubble constant from supernova Refsdal's reappearance
Martin Raoul Robert Millon, Mathilde Jauzac, Vivien François Bonvin, Anja Von der Linden
The gravitationally lensed supernova Refsdal appeared in multiple images produced through gravitational lensing by a massive foreground galaxy cluster. After the supernova appeared in 2014, lens models of the galaxy cluster predicted that an additional ima ...
Washington2023Constraining quasar structure using high-frequency microlensing variations and continuum reverberation
Frédéric Courbin, Martin Raoul Robert Millon, Eric Gérard Guy Paic, Hung-Hsu Chan, Vivien François Bonvin, Georgios Vernardos
Gravitational microlensing is a powerful tool for probing the inner structure of strongly lensed quasars and for constraining parameters of the stellar mass function of lens galaxies. This is achieved by analysing microlensing light curves between the mult ...
EDP SCIENCES S A2022J1721+8842: a gravitationally lensed binary quasar with a proximate damped Lyman-alpha absorber
Frédéric Courbin, Martin Raoul Robert Millon, Eric Gérard Guy Paic, Cameron Alexander Campbell Lemon, Hung-Hsu Chan, Adriano Agnello
High-redshift binary quasars provide key insights into mergers and quasar activity, and are useful tools for probing the spatial kinematics and chemistry of galaxies along the line of sight. However, only three sub-10-kpc binaries have been confirmed above ...
EDP SCIENCES S A2022Time-delay Cosmography with Strongly Lensed Quasars
The LCDM model has emerged as the concordance model of cosmology for its ability to explain a variety of observations, ranging from the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) to the accelerated expansion of the Universe. However, with the ev ...
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