Is there a caustic crossing in the lensed quasar Q2237+0305 observational data record?

Details Is there a caustic crossing in the lensed quasar Q2237+0305 observational data record? Is there a caustic crossing in the lensed quasar Q2237+0305 observational data record?

2006-07-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607162v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.371:1478-1482,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, to appear in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10782.x

We re-investigate the gravitationally lensed system Q2237+0305 data record to quantify the probability of having a caustic crossing in the A component. Several works assume that this is the case, but no quantitative analysis is available in the literature. We combine the datasets from the OGLE and GLITP collaborations to accurately trace the prominent event in the lightcurve for the A component of the system. Then the observed event is compared with synthetic light curves derived from trajectories in magnification maps. These maps are generated using a ray-tracing technique. We take more than 10^9 trajectories and test a wide range of different physical properties of the lensing galaxy and the source quasar (lens transverse velocity, microlens mass, source intensity profile and source size). We found that around 75% of our good trajectories (i.e. that are consistent with the observations) are caustic crossings. In addition, a high transverse velocity exceeding 300 km/s, a microlens mass of about 0.1 M_sun and a small standard accretion disk is the best parameter combination. The results justify the interpretation of the OGLE-GLITP event in Q2237+0305A as a caustic crossing. Moreover, the physical properties of the lens and source are in very good agreement with previous works. We also remark that a standard accretion disk is prefered to those simpler approaches, and that the former should be used in subsequent simulations.

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