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2020ApJ...894..153D - Astrophys. J., 894, 153-153 (2020/May-2)

X-ray monitoring of gravitationally lensed radio-loud quasars with Chandra.

DOGRUEL M.B., DAI X., GUERRAS E., CORNACHIONE M. and MORGAN C.W.

Abstract (from CDS):

In this work, we calculated the sizes of unresolved X-ray emission regions in three gravitationally lensed radio-loud quasars, B 1422+231, MG J0414+0534, and Q 0957+561, using a combination of imaging and spectral analysis on the X-ray data taken from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. We tentatively detected FeKα emission lines in MG J0414+0534 and Q 0957+561 with over 95% significance, whereas, we did not significantly detect FeKα emission in B 1422+231. We constructed differential microlensing light curves from absorption corrected count rates. We subsequently performed a microlensing analysis on the X-ray microlensing light curves to measure the X-ray source sizes in rest frame soft (0.83-3.6 keV), hard (3.6-21.8 keV), and full (0.83-21.8 keV) bands, based on either Bayesian or maximum likelihood probabilities. For B 1422+231, sizes from the two methods are consistent with each other, RXhard/RG=6.17±5.48 (Bayesian), 11.81 ± 3.75 (maximum likelihood), where RG=GMBH/c2). However, for MG J0414+0534 and Q 0957+561, the two methods yield substantially different results suggesting that more frequently sampled data with better signal-to-noise ratio are needed to measure the source size for these two objects. Comparing the acquired size values with the radio-quiet sample in the literature we found that our results are consistent with X-ray source size scaling approximately as RX ∝ MBH with the mass of the central supermassive black hole. Our Bayesian analysis results also indicate that radio-loud quasars tend to have larger unresolved X-ray emission sizes compared to the radio-quiet ones, suggesting a more prominent jet contribution.

Abstract Copyright: © 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): Radio loud quasars - X-ray active galactic nuclei - Quasar microlensing - Strong gravitational lensing - X-ray astronomy

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