期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 783, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/783/1/47
关键词
accretion, accretion disks; gravitational lensing: micro; quasars: general
资金
- Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia [AYA2011-24728, AYA2007-67342-C03-01/03, AYA2010-21741-C03/02]
- Junta de Andalucia through the FQM-108 project
- Generalitat Valenciana [PROMETEO/2009/64]
- NSF [AST-1009756]
- FONDECYT [1120741]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1009756] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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 (r(s) proportional to lambda(p), corresponding to a disk temperature profile of T proportional to r(-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(-1.2)(+1.5) lt-day at a rest frame wavelength of lambda = 1026 angstrom for microlenses with a mean mass of M = 1 M-circle dot, in agreement with previous results, and larger than expected from thin disk theory.
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