Tracing dark energy with quasars

Justyna Średzińska, Bożena Czerny, M. Bilicki, K. Hryniewicz, M. Krupa, A. Kurcz, P. Marziani, A. Pollo, W. Pych and A. Udalski

The nature of dark energy, driving the accelerated expansion of the Universe, is one of the most important issues in modern astrophysics. In order to understand this phenomenon, we need precise astrophysical probes of the universal expansion spanning wide redshift ranges. Quasars have recently emerged as such a probe, thanks to their high intrinsic luminosities and, most importantly, our ability to measure their luminosity distances independently of redshifts. Here we report our ongoing work on observational reverberation mapping using the time delay of the Mg II line, performed with the South African Large Telescope (SALT).

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 3, 255-257 (2016)

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