2023ApJ...952...54R


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2023ApJ...952...54R - Astrophys. J., 952, 54 (2023/July-3)

Optical and Near-infrared Continuum Emission Region Size Measurements in the Lensed Quasar FBQ J0951+2635.

RIVERA A.B., MORGAN C.W., FLORENCE S.M., DAHM S.E., VRBA F.J., TILLEMAN T.M., CORNACHIONE M.A. and FALCO E.E.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present 10 seasons of Sloan Digital Sky Survey r-band monitoring observations and five seasons of H-band observations of the two-image system FBQ J0951+2635 from the Kaj Strand Astrometric Reflector at the United States Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station. We supplement our light curves with six seasons of monitoring data from the literature to yield a 10 + 6 season combined data set, which we analyzed with our Monte Carlo microlensing analysis routine to generate constraints on the structure of this system's continuum emission source and the properties of the lens galaxy. Complementing our optical light curves with the five-season near-infrared light curves, we ran a joint Monte Carlo analysis to measure the size of the continuum emission region at both wavelengths, yielding log(r1/2 cm–1) = ${16.24}_{-0.36}^{+0.33}$ in the r band and ${17.04}_{-0.30}^{+0.26}$ in the H band at rest wavelengths of 2744 and 7254 Å, respectively, correcting for an assumed inclination angle of 60°. Modeling the accretion disk temperature profile as a power law T(r) ∝ r–β, we successfully constrain the slope for FBQ J0951+2635 to $\beta ={0.50}_{-0.18}^{+0.50}$, shallower than, but nominally consistent with, the predictions of standard thin-disk theory, β = 0.75.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Quasars - Gravitational lensing - Gravitational microlensing - Quasar microlensing

Simbad objects: 8

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Number of rows : 8
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 QSO J0158-4325 QSO 01 58 41.3988 -43 25 03.798   17.2 17.2     ~ 74 1
2 QSO B0909+5312 QSO 09 13 01.031 +52 59 28.90   17.29 16.71     ~ 157 1
3 [VV98] J095122.6+263513 QSO 09 51 22.5840 +26 35 13.786   17.66 17.31     ~ 120 1
4 [SGB98] J0951+2635 A LeQ 09 51 22.629 +26 35 13.98   17.66 17.31     ~ 20 1
5 [SGB98] J0951+2635 B LeQ 09 51 22.695 +26 35 13.32   18.55 18.25     ~ 20 1
6 8C 0958+561 QSO 10 01 20.6918953728 +55 53 55.593949272   17.16 16.95     ~ 757 3
7 QSO B1104-181 QSO 11 06 33.3845199936 -18 21 23.829049296   15.8 15.9 15.7   ~ 338 1
8 QSO B1115+080A QSO 11 18 16.951 +07 45 58.23   16.61 16.44     ~ 703 2

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