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 Einstein Ring radius as a conservative limit. This limit corresponds to , if we adopt 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
11 pages, including 1 table and 3 figures, accepted to ApJL