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We present results from a monitoring campaign performed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the gravitationally lensed quasars RX J1131-1231 and HE 1104-1805. We detect significant X-ray variability in all images of both quasars. The flux variability detected in image A of RX J1131-1231 is of particular interest because of its high amplitude (a factor of ~ 20). We interpret it as arising from microlensing since the variability is uncorrelated with that of the other images and the X-ray flux ratios show larger changes than the optical as we would expect for microlensing of the more compact X-ray emission regions. The differences between the X-ray and optical flux ratios of HE 1104-1805 are less dramatic, but there is no significant soft X-ray or dust absorption, implying the presence of X-ray microlensing in this system as well. Combining the X-ray data with the optical light curves we find that the X-ray emitting region of HE 1104-1805 is compact with a half-light radius ~ 6 r_g, where the gravitational radius is r_g = 3.6 x 10^14 cm, thus placing significant constraints on AGN corona models. We also find that the microlensing in HE 1104-1805 favors mass models for the lens galaxy that are dominated by dark matter. Finally, we better characterize the massive foreground cluster near RX J1131-1231, set limits on other sources of extended X-ray emission, and limit the fluxes of any central odd images to be 30-50 (3 sigma) times fainter than the observed images.
We present results of the long term monitoring of the gravitationally lensed quasar HE1104-1805. The photometric data were collected between August 1997 and January 2002 as a subproject of the OGLE survey. We determine the time delay in the light c
We present a new determination of the time delay of the gravitational lens system HE1104-1805 (Double Hamburger) based on a previously unpublished dataset. We argue that the previously published value of dt_(A-B)=0.73 years was affected by a bias of
Optical and X-ray observations of the quadruply imaged quasar 1RXS J1131-1231 show flux ratio anomalies among the images factors of ~2 in the optical and ~3-9 in X-rays. Temporal variability of the quasar seems an unlikely explanation for the discrep
The gravitationally lensed quasar HE 1104-1805 has been observed at a variety of wavelengths ranging from the mid-infrared to X-ray for nearly 20 years. We combine flux ratios from the literature, including recent Chandra data, with new observations
We present the main results of the first long-term spectrophotometric monitoring of the ``Einstein cross Q2237+0305 and of the single-epoch spectra of the lensed quasar J1131-1231. From October 2004 to December 2006, we find that two prominent micr