Bibcode
Muñoz, J. A.; Mediavilla, E.; Kochanek, C. S.; Falco, E. E.; Mosquera, A. M.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 742, Issue 2, article id. 67 (2011).
Fecha de publicación:
12
2011
Revista
Número de citas
37
Número de citas referidas
34
Descripción
We report Hubble Space Telescope observations of six gravitational
lenses with the Advanced Camera for Surveys. We measured the flux ratios
between the lensed images in seven filters from 8140 Å to 2200
Å. In three of the systems, HE0512-3329, B1600+434, and
H1413+117, we were able to construct UV extinction curves partially
overlapping the 2175 Å feature and characterize the properties of
the dust relative to the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. In
HE1104-1804, we detect chromatic microlensing and use it to study
the physical properties of the quasar accretion disk. For a Gaussian
model of the disk exp (- r 2/2r 2 s
), scaling with wavelength as rs vpropλ p
, we estimate rs (λ3363) = 4+4
- 2 (7 ± 4) light days and p = 1.1 ± 0.6
(1.0 ± 0.6) for a logarithmic (linear) prior on rs .
The remaining two systems, FBQ0951+2635 and SBS1520+530, yielded no
useful estimates of extinction or chromatic microlensing.
Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The
Space Telescope Science Institute is operated by the Association of
Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS
5-26555.
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