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Evidence for a source size of less than 2000 AU in Quasar 2237+0305

Astrophysics 2016-08-30 v1

Abstract

Recently, OGLE team have reported clear quasar microlensing signal in Q2237+0305. We have analyzed the microlens event of ``image C'' by using their finely and densely sampled lightcurves. From lightcurve fitting, we can unambiguously set the source size of \lsim0.98\lsim 0.98 Einstein Ring radius as a conservative limit. This limit corresponds to 2000(AU)2000 {\rm (AU)}, if we adopt Mlens0.1MM_{\rm lens} \sim 0.1M_{\odot} obtained by a recent statistical study of mean mass of lens object. This gives a clear evidence for the existence of an accretion disk in the central region of the quasar.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0012216,
  title  = {Evidence for a source size of less than 2000 AU in Quasar 2237+0305},
  author = {Atsunori Yonehara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0012216},
  year   = {2016}
}

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11 pages, including 1 table and 3 figures, accepted to ApJL