Improper Motions in Lensed QSOs

Abstract

We argue that individual images in multiple-image QSOs could easily have substructure at the level of $0.1^{\prime \prime }$ (i.e., unresolvable even with HST); microlensing within such substructure would cause centroid shifts, observable even from the ground as pseudo proper motions. We present a model of the four-image system 2237+0305 in which Image B shows such ``improper motions" of order of $0.01^{\prime \prime }$ over a few years.

16 pages, uuencoded, to appear in the Astronomical Journal

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