X-Ray and Optical Microlensing in the Lensed Quasar PG 1115+080
Abstract
We analyzed the microlensing of the X-ray and optical emission of the lensed quasar PG 1115+080. We find that the effective radius of the X-ray emission is 1.3+ 1.1-0.5 dex smaller than that of the optical emission. Viewed as a thin disk observed at inclination angle i, the optical accretion disk has a scale length, defined by the point where the disk temperature matches the rest-frame energy of the monitoring band (kT = hc/λrest with λrest = 0.3 μm), of log{(rs, opt/cm)[cos(i)/0.5]½} = 16.6 +/- 0.4. The X-ray emission region (1.4-21.8 keV in the rest frame) has an effective half-light radius of log (r1/2,X/cm) = 15.6+ 0.6-0.9. Given an estimated black hole mass of 1.2 × 109 M⊙, corresponding to a gravitational radius of log (rg/cm) = 14.3, the X-ray emission is generated near the inner edge of the disk, while the optical emission comes from scales slightly larger than those expected for an Eddington-limited thin disk. We find a weak trend supporting models with low stellar mass fractions near the lensed images, in mild contradiction to inferences from the stellar velocity dispersion and the time delays.
Based on observations obtained with the Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System (SMARTS) 1.3 m, which is operated by the SMARTS Consortium; the Apache Point Observatory 3.5 meter telescope, which is owned and operated by the Astrophysical Research Consortium; the WIYN Observatory, which is owned and operated by the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, Yale University, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO); the 6.5 m Magellan Baade telescope, which is a collaboration between the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (OCIW), the University of Arizona, Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope for program HST-GO-9744 of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555.- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- December 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1086/592767
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0802.1210
- Bibcode:
- 2008ApJ...689..755M
- Keywords:
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- accretion;
- accretion disks;
- dark matter;
- gravitational lensing;
- quasars: individual: PG 1115+080;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 21 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJ