{
  "id": "astro-ph/0205441",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2002-05-24T21:27:40.000Z",
  "updated": "2002-05-24T21:27:40.000Z",
  "title": "Gravitational microlensing of gamma-ray blazars",
  "authors": [
    "Diego F. Torres",
    "Gustavo E. Romero",
    "Ernesto F. Eiroa",
    "Joachim Wambsganss",
    "M. E. Pessah"
  ],
  "comment": "30 pages, 27 figures. Four figures are being submitted only as .gif files, and should be printed separately. The abstract below has been shortened from the actual version appearing in the paper",
  "journal": "Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.339:335-352,2003",
  "doi": "10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06219.x",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph",
    "gr-qc"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present a detailed study of the effects of gravitational microlensing on compact and distant $\\gamma$-ray blazars. These objects have $\\gamma$-ray emitting regions which are small enough as to be affected by microlensing effects produced by stars lying in intermediate galaxies. We analyze the temporal evolution of the gamma-ray magnification for sources moving in a caustic pattern field, where the combined effects of thousands of stars are taken into account using a numerical technique. We propose that some of the unidentified $\\gamma$-ray sources (particularly some of those lying at high galactic latitude whose gamma-ray statistical properties are very similar to detected $\\gamma$-ray blazars) are indeed the result of gravitational lensing magnification of background undetected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs).",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2002-05-24T21:27:40.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "gravitational microlensing",
      "gamma-ray blazars",
      "high galactic latitude",
      "background undetected active galactic nuclei",
      "ray sources"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 30,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 587359
    }
  }
}