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A Microlensing Accretion Disk Size Measurement in the Lensed Quasar WFI 2026-4536

Cornachione, Matthew A.
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Morgan, Christopher W.
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Millon, Martin  
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June 1, 2020
The Astrophysical Journal

We use 13 seasons of R-band photometry from the 1.2 m Leonard Euler Swiss Telescope at La Silla to examine microlensing variability in the quadruply imaged lensed quasar WFI 2026-4536. The lightcurves exhibit similar to 0.2 mag of uncorrelated variability across all epochs and a prominent single feature of similar to 0.1 mag within a single season. We analyze this variability to constrain the size of the quasar's accretion disk. Adopting a nominal inclination of 60 degrees, we find an accretion disk scale radius of (r(s)/cm)= 15.74(-0.29)(+0.34) at a rest frame wavelength of 2043 angstrom, and we estimate a black hole mass of log (M-BH/M-circle dot) 9.18(-0.34)(+0.39), based on the C IV line in VLT spectra. This size measurement is fully consistent with the quasar accretion disk size-black hole mass relation, providing another system in which the accretion disk is larger than predicted by thin-disk theory.

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DOI
10.3847/1538-4357/ab557a
Web of Science ID

WOS:000540542700001

Author(s)
Cornachione, Matthew A.
Morgan, Christopher W.
Millon, Martin  
Bentz, Misty C.
Courbin, Frederic  
Bonvin, Vivien  
Falco, Emilio E.
Date Issued

2020-06-01

Publisher

IOP PUBLISHING LTD

Published in
The Astrophysical Journal
Volume

895

Issue

2

Start page

125

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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active galactic nuclei

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gravitational lenses

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x-ray

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time delays

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cosmograil

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deconvolution

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variability

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models

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masses

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galaxy

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REVIEWED

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June 19, 2021
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