Bibcode
Falco, E.; Motta, V.; Muñoz, J. A.; Kochanek, C. S.; Jimenez-Vicente, J.; Mediavilla, E.; Guerras, E.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 764, Issue 2, article id. 160, 9 pp. (2013).
Fecha de publicación:
2
2013
Revista
Número de citas
74
Número de citas referidas
69
Descripción
We measure the differential microlensing of the broad emission lines
between 18 quasar image pairs in 16 gravitational lenses. We find that
the broad emission lines are in general weakly microlensed. The results
show, at a modest level of confidence (1.8σ), that high ionization
lines such as C IV are more strongly microlensed than low ionization
lines such as Hβ, indicating that the high ionization line emission
regions are more compact. If we statistically model the distribution of
microlensing magnifications, we obtain estimates for the broad line
region size of rs = 24+22 –15 and
rs = 55+150 –35 lt-day (90%
confidence) for the high and low ionization lines, respectively. When
the samples are divided into higher and lower luminosity quasars, we
find that the line emission regions of more luminous quasars are larger,
with a slope consistent with the expected scaling from photoionization
models. Our estimates also agree well with the results from local
reveberation mapping studies.
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