Astrofísica Relativista y Teórica

Año de inicio
1988
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    El estudio de las lentes gravitatorias proporciona poderosas herramientas en Astrofísica y Cosmología. Las principales aplicaciones de las lentes gravitatorias en las que se centra este proyecto son las siguientes: (i) estudiar la presencia de subestructura de materia obscura en las galaxias lente a partir de las anomalías en la magnificación de las imágenes múltiples de quásares (mililensing), (ii) estudiar la estructura no resuelta de los discos de acreción en los quásares (tamaño, perfil de temperaturas, perfil de luminosidad) a partir de las alteraciones inducidas por el efecto microlente en el contínuo y en las líneas de emisión, (iii) estudiar la estructura y la cinemática de la región emisora de líneas anchas en quásares a partir de la respuesta de los perfiles de las líneas de emisión anchas al efecto microlente y de la variabilidad de esta respuesta, (iv) estudiar la "dinámica del Universo" a partir de las velocidades peculiares de las galaxias lente inferidas del ritmo de variabilidad inducido por el efecto microlente y, (v) desarrollar nuevos métodos numéricos y estadísticos para estudiar el efecto microlente.

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    Personal del proyecto
    1. Hemos introducido un nuevo método para medir las masas de los agujeros negros supermasivos de los quásares basado en el redshift gravitatorio de las líneas ultravioletas del hierro dos veces ionizado. Las masas calculadas están en acuerdo con las estimaciones obtenidas usando el teorema del virial.

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      Melo, A. et al.

      Fecha de publicación:

      12
      2023
      Número de citas
      2
    • Revealing the structure of the lensed quasar Q 0957+561. III. Constraints on the size of the broad-line region
      Aims: Our aim is to examine the size, kinematics, and geometry of the broad-line region (BLR) in the double-lensed quasar Q 0957+561 by analyzing the impact of microlensing on various rest-frame ultraviolet broad-emission lines (BELs). Methods: We explore the influence of intrinsic variability and microlensing on the C IV, C III], and Mg II
      Fian, C. et al.

      Fecha de publicación:

      10
      2023
      Número de citas
      7
    • Constraints on the Abundance of Primordial Black Holes from X-Ray Quasar Microlensing Observations: Substellar to Planetary Mass Range
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      Esteban-Gutiérrez, A. et al.

      Fecha de publicación:

      9
      2023
      Número de citas
      6
    • Long-term optical spectral monitoring of a changing-look active galactic nucleus NGC 3516. II. Broad-line profile variability
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      7
      2023
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      7
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      5
      2023
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    • Fast Multipole Method for Gravitational Lensing: Application to High-magnification Quasar Microlensing
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      Jiménez-Vicente, J. et al.

      Fecha de publicación:

      12
      2022
      Número de citas
      11
    • Revealing the structure of the lensed quasar Q 0957+561. II. Supermassive black hole mass via gravitational redshift
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      11
      2022
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      López-Corredoira, M. et al.

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      12
      2022
      Número de citas
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      9
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      Número de citas
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      4
      2022
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      Examining a catalogue of isolated galaxy pairs, a preferred orbital intervelocity of ~ 150 km s -1 was recently reported. This discovery is difficult to reconcile with the expectations from Newtonian numerical simulations of cosmological structure formations. In a previous paper, we have shown that a preferred intervelocity for galaxy pairs is
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      Fecha de publicación:

      5
      2022
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    • HARMONI view of the host galaxies of active galactic nuclei around cosmic noon. Resolved stellar morpho-kinematics and the M<SUB>BH</SUB> − σ<SUB>⋆</SUB> relation
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      3
      2022
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      Scarpa, Riccardo et al.

      Fecha de publicación:

      2
      2022
      Número de citas
      4
    • First black hole mass estimation for the quadruple lensed system WGD2038-4008
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      Melo, A. et al.

      Fecha de publicación:

      12
      2021
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      Fian, C. et al.

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      10
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      9
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    • Testing Einsteins Equivalence Principle and Its Cosmological Evolution from Quasar Gravitational Redshifts
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      6
      2021
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      7
      2021
      Número de citas
      12
    • Low-redshift quasars in the SDSS Stripe 82 - II. Associated companion galaxies and signature of star formation
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      Stone, M. B. et al.

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      2
      2021
      Número de citas
      2
    • The Impact of the Mass Spectrum of Lenses in Quasar Microlensing Studies. Constraints on a Mixed Population of Primordial Black Holes and Stars
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      Esteban-Gutiérrez, A. et al.

      Fecha de publicación:

      12
      2020
      Número de citas
      7

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