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2012ApJ...756...52M - Astrophys. J., 756, 52 (2012/September-1)

Further evidence that quasar X-ray emitting regions are compact: X-ray and optical microlensing in the lensed quasar Q J0158-4325.

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

Abstract (from CDS):

We present four new seasons of optical monitoring data and six epochs of X-ray photometry for the doubly imaged lensed quasar Q J0158-4325. The high-amplitude, short-period microlensing variability for which this system is known has historically precluded a time delay measurement by conventional methods. We attempt to circumvent this limitation by the application of a Monte Carlo microlensing analysis technique, but we are only able to prove that the delay must have the expected sign (image A leads image B). Despite our failure to robustly measure the time delay, we successfully model the microlensing at optical and X-ray wavelengths to find a half-light radius for soft X-ray emission log (r_1/2, X, soft_/cm) = 14.3+0.4_- 0.5_, an upper limit on the half-light radius for hard X-ray emission log (r_1/2, X, hard_/cm) ≤ 14.6, and a refined estimate of the inclination-corrected scale radius of the optical R-band (rest frame 3100 Å) continuum emission region of log (rs/cm) = 15.6±0.3.

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Journal keyword(s): accretion, accretion disks - cosmology: observations - dark matter - gravitational lensing: micro - gravitational lensing: strong - quasars: general

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/ApJ/756/52): table1.dat>

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