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Accretion Disk Size Measurement and Time Delays in the Lensed Quasar WFI 2033-4723

Morgan, Christopher W.
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Hyer, Gregory E.
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Bonvin, Vivien  
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December 20, 2018
The Astrophysical Journal

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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DOI
10.3847/1538-4357/aaed3e
Web of Science ID

WOS:000453609600004

Author(s)
Morgan, Christopher W.
Hyer, Gregory E.
Bonvin, Vivien  
Mosquera, Ana M.
Cornachione, Matthew
Courbin, Frederic  
Kochanek, Christopher S.
Falco, Emilio E.
Date Issued

2018-12-20

Publisher

IOP PUBLISHING LTD

Published in
The Astrophysical Journal
Volume

869

Issue

2

Start page

106

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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accretion, accretion disks

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gravitational lensing: micro

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gravitational lensing: strong

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quasars: individual (wfi 2033-4723)

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dark-matter

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gravitational lenses

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he 0435-1223

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x-ray

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cosmograil

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galaxy

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vii

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h-0

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REVIEWED

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January 3, 2019
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