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A Consistent Picture Emerges: A Compact X-Ray Continuum Emission Region In The Gravitationally Lensed Quasar Sdss J0924+0219

Macleod, Chelsea L.
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Morgan, Christopher W.
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Mosquera, A.
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2015
The Astrophysical Journal

We analyze the optical, UV, and X-ray microlensing variability of the lensed quasar SDSS J0924+ 0219 using six epochs of Chandra data in two energy bands (spanning 0.4-8.0 keV, or 1-20 keV in the quasar rest frame), 10 epochs of F275W (rest-frame 1089 angstrom) Hubble Space Telescope data, and high-cadence R-band (rest-frame 2770 angstrom) monitoring spanning 11 years. Our joint analysis provides robust constraints on the extent of the X-ray continuum emission region and the projected area of the accretion disk. The best-fit half-light radius of the soft X-ray continuum emission region is between 5 x 10(13) and 10(15) cm, and we find an upper limit of 10(15) cm for the hard X-rays. The best-fit soft-band size is about 13 times smaller than the optical size, and roughly 7GM(BH)/c(2) for a 2.8 x 10(8) M-circle dot black hole, similar to the results for other systems. We find that the UV emitting region falls in between the optical and X-ray emitting regions at 10(14) cm < r(1/2,UV) <3x10(15) cm. Finally, the optical size is significantly larger, by 1.5 sigma, than the theoretical thin-disk estimate based on the observed, magnification-corrected I-band flux, suggesting a shallower temperature profile than expected for a standard disk.

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DOI
10.1088/0004-637X/806/2/258
Web of Science ID

WOS:000357129500113

Author(s)
Macleod, Chelsea L.
Morgan, Christopher W.
Mosquera, A.
Kochanek, C. S.
Tewes, M.  
Courbin, F.  
Meylan, G.  
Chen, B.
Dai, X.
Chartas, G.
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

American Astronomical Society

Published in
The Astrophysical Journal
Volume

806

Issue

2

Start page

258

Subjects

accretion

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accretion disks

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gravitational lensing: micro

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quasars: general

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REVIEWED

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September 28, 2015
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