Qualitative aspects of quasar microlensing with two mass components: magnification patterns and probability distributions
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It has been conjectured that the distribution of magnifications of a point source microlensed by a population of intervening point masses is independent of its mass spectrum. We present gedanken experiments that cast doubt on this conjecture and numerical simulations that show it to be false.
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