Bibcode
Mediavilla, E.; Jiménez-Vicente, J.; Kochanek, C. S.; Muñoz, J. A.; Motta, V.; Falco, E.; Mosquera, A. M.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 783, Issue 1, article id. 47, 7 pp. (2014).
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Description
We use multi-wavelength microlensing measurements of a sample of 10
image pairs from 8 lensed quasars to study the structure of their
accretion disks. By using spectroscopy or narrowband photometry, we have
been able to remove contamination from the weakly microlensed broad
emission lines, extinction, and any uncertainties in the large-scale
macro magnification of the lens model. We determine a maximum likelihood
estimate for the exponent of the size versus wavelength scaling
(rs vpropλ p , corresponding to a disk
temperature profile of Tvpropr –1/p ) of
p=0.75^{+0.2}_{-0.2} and a Bayesian estimate of p = 0.8 ± 0.2,
which are significantly smaller than the prediction of the thin disk
theory (p = 4/3). We have also obtained a maximum likelihood estimate
for the average quasar accretion disk size of r_s=4.5^{+1.5}_{-1.2}
lt-day at a rest frame wavelength of λ = 1026 Å for
microlenses with a mean mass of M = 1 M ☉, in agreement
with previous results, and larger than expected from thin disk theory.
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Introduction Gravitational lenses are a powerful tool for Astrophysics and Cosmology. The goals of this project are: i) to obtain a robust determination of the Hubble constant from the time delay measured between the images of a lensed quasar; ii) to study the individual and statistical properties of dark matter condensations in lens galaxies from
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