Microlensing of a Biconical Broad Line Region

Details Microlensing of a Biconical Broad Line Region Microlensing of a Biconical Broad Line Region

2006-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612064v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 figures, quality severely reduced. ApJ accepted

Scientific paper

10.1086/511023

The influence of microlensing in the profiles of the emission lines generated in a biconical geometry is discussed. Microlensing amplification in this anisotropic model is not directly related to the bicone's intrinsic size but depends on the orientation of the bicone axis and on the cone aperture. The orientation of the projected bicone with respect to the shear of the magnification pattern can induce very interesting effects, like the quasi-periodic enhancements of the red/blue part of the emission line profile or the lack of correlation between the broad line region (BLR) and continuum light curves of QSOs. The emission line profiles of a BLR moving in a high caustic concentration exhibit sharp features that are well defined in wavelength. These features (spikes) correspond to the scanning of the kinematics of the BLR by the caustic clusters. The biconical model can qualitatively reproduce with a transversal (with respect to the shear) movement of the BLR, the recurrent blue-wing enhancement detected in the emission line profile of the A image of the quasar lensed system SDSS J1004+4112. The probability of observing this repetitive event is almost a 2% for a fraction of matter in stars of a 5%. This result would make plausible the detection of the spectral variability in SDSS J1004+4112 under the hypothesis of microlensing of a bicone.

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