Science Priorities for a European Wide-Field Radio Interferometer

Session

Time Domain

26 Oct 2023, 11:00

Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas

15. Testing the nature of possible milli-lens systems with ARGOS

Felix Poetzl (Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH)

26/10/2023, 11:00

in person

The systematic search for gravitational lens systems on milli-arcsecond (mas) scales (milli-lenses) is the primary goal of the SMILE project (https://smilescience.info/). It will improve constraints on the number density of supermassive compact objects (SMCOs) in the universe by an order of magnitude compared to previous studies. These SMCOs potentially act as gravitational lenses for compact...