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2015ApJ...806..258M - Astrophys. J., 806, 258 (2015/June-3)

A consistent picture emerges: a compact X-ray continuum emission region in the gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J0924+0219.

MacLEOD C.L., MORGAN C.W., MOSQUERA A., KOCHANEK C.S., TEWES M., COURBIN F., MEYLAN G., CHEN B., DAI X. and CHARTAS G.

Abstract (from CDS):

We analyze the optical, UV, and X-ray microlensing variability of the lensed quasar SDSS J0924+0219 using six epochs of Chandra data in two energy bands (spanning 0.4-8.0 keV, or 1-20 keV in the quasar rest frame), 10 epochs of F275W (rest-frame 1089 Å) Hubble Space Telescope data, and high-cadence R-band (rest-frame 2770 Å) monitoring spanning 11 years. Our joint analysis provides robust constraints on the extent of the X-ray continuum emission region and the projected area of the accretion disk. The best-fit half-light radius of the soft X-ray continuum emission region is between 5x 1013 and 1015 cm, and we find an upper limit of 1015 cm for the hard X-rays. The best-fit soft-band size is about 13 times smaller than the optical size, and roughly 7 GMBH/C2 for a 2.8 x 108M black hole, similar to the results for other systems. We find that the UV emitting region falls in between the optical and X-ray emitting regions at 1014 cm < r1/2.UV < 3x1015 cm. Finally, the optical size is significantly larger, by 1.5σ, than the theoretical thin-disk estimate based on the observed, magnification-corrected I-band flux, suggesting a shallower temperature profile than expected for a standard disk.

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Journal keyword(s): accretion, accretion disks - gravitational lensing: micro - quasars: general

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/ApJ/806/258): table1.dat>

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