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Possibilities for studying microlensing of distant quasars using the RADIOASTRON space interferometer

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Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for studies of the distribution of matter (including dark matter) in the Universe. The characteristic angular separation of images and characteristic variability time scale depend on the characteristic masses of the gravitational lenses. The construction of the RADIOASTRON space interferometer in the coming years will provide qualitatively new conditions for investigations of microlensing of distant quasars in the radio, since it will become possible not only to resolve individual microimages of these quasars, but also to observe astrometric microlensing (i.e., the shift of an image of a distant quasar, sometimes called weak microlensing). Astrometric microlensing by compact objects in the Galactic halo is not a very significant effect for the RADIOASTRON interferometer, since the probability of such events is low and the characteristic time scales involved appreciably exceed the proposed operational lifetime of the interferometer.

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Original Russian Text © A.F. Zakharov, 2006, published in Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2006, Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 99–112.

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Zakharov, A.F. Possibilities for studying microlensing of distant quasars using the RADIOASTRON space interferometer. Astron. Rep. 50, 79–90 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772906020016

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