The accretion disc in the quasar SDSS J0924+0219

We present single-epoch multi-wavelength optical-NIR observations of the "anomalous" lensed quasar SDSS J0924+0219, made using the Magellan 6.5-metre Baade telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. The data clearly resolve the anomalous bright image pair in the lensed system, and exhib...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2009-05
Main Authors: Floyd, D J E, Bate, N F, Webster, R L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Continuum radiation
Deposition
Microlenses
Power law
Quasars
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Summary:We present single-epoch multi-wavelength optical-NIR observations of the "anomalous" lensed quasar SDSS J0924+0219, made using the Magellan 6.5-metre Baade telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. The data clearly resolve the anomalous bright image pair in the lensed system, and exhibit a strong decrease in the anomalous flux ratio with decreasing wavelength. This is interpreted as a result of microlensing of a source of decreasing size in the core of the lensed quasar. We model the radius of the continuum emission region, sigma, as a power-law in wavelength, sigma lambda^zeta. We place an upper limit on the Gaussian radius of the u'-band emission region of 3.04E16 h70^{-1/2} (/M_sun)^{1/2} cm, and constrain the size-wavelength power-law index to zeta
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.0905.2651