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Figure 9: “Micro-Images”: The top left panel shows an assumed “unlensed” source profile of a
quasar. The other three panels illustrate the micro-image configuration as it would be produced by
stellar objects in the foreground. The surface mass density of the lenses is 20% (top right), 50%
(bottom left) and 80% (bottom right) of the critical density (cf. Equation (16 |