Accretion Disk Sizes and Temperature Profiles in Lensed Quasars: NIR Microlensing Challenges Thin Disk Theory

arXiv:2608.26039 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-08-26

Terminology

• Microlensing — 58× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Gravitational Lensing — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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