This collection includes optical monitorings of gravitationally lensed
quasars. The frames can be used to make light curves of quasar images
and field objects. From quasar light curves, one may measure time
delays and flux ratios, analyse variability and chromaticity, etc.
These direct analyses/measurements are basic tools for different
astrophysical studies, e.g., expansion rate of the Universe, mechanism
of intrinsic variability in quasars, accretion disk structure,
supermassive black holes, dark halos of galaxies (dust, collapsed dark
matter, smoothly distributed dark matter,...)
Reduced frames of lensed quasar observations from Maidanak
Observatory. See the referenceURL for details on the reduction
procedure and calibration data.
This catalogue (with updates to the pervious version) contains 11358
(+2759) quasars (defined as brighter than absolute B magnitude -23),
3334 (+501) AGNs (defined as fainter than absolute B magnitude -23)
and 357 (+137) BL Lac objects from 1863 (+201) references.
