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We used scans of sky survey plates available at STScl to look for the presence of multiple-image QSOs which could be due to gravitational lensing. We extracted about 1500 fields, each having 5 arcmin in size, around QSOs brighter than m v = 18. No lenses have been found so far. We found several cases of galaxies close in projection (within a few arcsec) from QSOs.
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Meylan, G., Beaulieu, S., Djorgovski, S., Weir, W.N., Surdej, J., Pirenne, B. (1992). A search for gravitational lenses using sky survey plate scans. In: Kayser, R., Schramm, T., Nieser, L. (eds) Gravitational Lenses. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 406. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55797-0_118
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