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astro-ph.HE2025
Self-lensing flares from black hole binaries V: systematic searches in LSST
Kevin Park, Zoltan Haiman, Chengcheng Xin +3
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has now seen first light, and over a 10 year duration, LSST is projected to catalogue tens of millions of quasars, many of which are expected to be as…
astro-ph.HE2024
Self-lensing flares from black hole binaries IV: the number of detectable shadows
Kevin Park, Chengcheng Xin, Jordy Davelaar +1
Sub-parsec supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries are expected to be common in active galactic nuclei (AGN), as a result of the hierarchical build-up of galaxies via mergers. Whil…