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2011ApJ...728..145M - Astrophys. J., 728, 145 (2011/February-3)

A study of gravitational lens chromaticity using ground-based narrowband photometry.

MOSQUERA A.M., MUNOZ J.A., MEDIAVILLA E. and KOCHANEK C.S.

Abstract (from CDS):

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 zL= 0.58 lens galaxy and find that the 2175 Å 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 rRs= 13 ±5 light days for a linear prior on rRs and rRs= 7±6 light days for a logarithmic prior. For a power-law size-wavelength scaling of rs∝ λ^ p ^, we were able to constrain the value of the exponent to p = 1.3±0.3 for both rRspriors, which is in agreement with the temperature profiles of simple thin disk models (p = 4/3).

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Journal keyword(s): accretion, accretion disks - dust, extinction - gravitational lensing: micro - quasars: individual (SDSS J1650+4251, HE 0435-1223, FBQ 0951+2635, Q 0142-100)

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