Accretion Disk Size Measurement and Time Delays in the Lensed Quasar WFI 2033-4723
We present 13 seasons of R-band photometry of the quadruply lensed quasarWFI 2033-4723 from the 1.3m SMARTS telescope at CTIO and the 1.2m Euler Swiss Telescope at La Silla, in which we detect microlensing variability of similar to 0.2mag on a timescale of similar to 6 years. Using a Bayesian Monte Carlo technique, we analyze the microlensing signal to obtain a measurement of the size of this system's accretion disk of log (r(s)/cm) 15.86(-0.27)(+0.25) + at lambda(rest) = 2481 angstrom, assuming a 60 degrees inclination angle. We confirm previous measurements of the BC and AB time delays, and we obtain a tentative measurement of the delay between the closely spaced A1 and A2 images of Delta t(A1A2) = t(A1)-t(A2) =-3.9(-2.2)(+3.4) days. We conclude with an update to the Quasar Accretion Disk Size-Black Hole Mass Relation, in which we confirm that the accretion disk size predictions from simple thin disk theory are too small.
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2018-12-20
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