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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 728, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/728/2/145
Keywords
accretion, accretion disks; dust, extinction; gravitational lensing: micro; quasars: individual (SDSS J1650+4251, HE 0435-1223, FBQ 0951+2635, and Q 0142-100)
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- European Community [MRTN-CT-2004-505183]
- Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencias [AYA2004-08243-C03-01/03, AYA2007-67342-C03-01/03]
- Generalitat Valenciana [APOSTD/2010/030, PROMETEO/2009/64]
- NSF [AST-0708082, AST-1009756]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1009756] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/G009465/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/G009465/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We present observations of wavelength-dependent flux ratios for four gravitational lens systems (SDSS J1650+4251, HE 0435-1223, FBQ 0951+2635, and Q 0142-100) obtained with the Nordic Optical Telescope. The use of narrowband photometry, as well as the excellent seeing conditions during the observations, allows us to study their chromatic behavior. For SDSS J1650+4251, we determine the extinction curve of the dust in the z(L) = 0.58 lens galaxy and find that the 2175 angstrom feature is absent. In the case of HE 0435-1223, we clearly detect chromatic microlensing. This allows us to estimate the wavelength-dependent size of the accretion disk. We find an R-band disk size of r(s)(R) = 13 +/- 5 light days for a linear prior on r(s)(R) and r(s)(R) = 7 +/- 6 light days for a logarithmic prior. For a power-law size-wavelength scaling of r(s) alpha lambda(p), we were able to constrain the value of the exponent to p = 1.3 +/- 0.3 for both r(s)(R) priors, which is in agreement with the temperature profiles of simple thin disk models (p = 4/3).
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