A Sharp Event in the Image a Light Curve of the Double Quasar 0957+561 and Prediction of the 1996 Image B Light Curve

Details A Sharp Event in the Image a Light Curve of the Double Quasar 0957+561 and Prediction of the 1996 Image B Light Curve A Sharp Event in the Image a Light Curve of the Double Quasar 0957+561 and Prediction of the 1996 Image B Light Curve

1995-08-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9508145v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

submitted to ApJ Letters, 15 pages, uuencoded PostScript with figures included; also available through WWW at http://www.ast

Scientific paper

10.1086/309819

CCD photometry of the gravitational lens system 0957+561A,B in the g and r bands was obtained on alternate nights, weather permitting, from December 1994 through May 1995 using the Double Imaging Spectrograph (DIS) on the Apache Point Observatory (APO) 3.5-meter telescope. The remote observing and fast instrument change capabilities of this facility allowed accumulation of light curves sampled frequently and consistently. The Honeycutt ensemble photometry algorithm was applied to the data set and yielded typical relative photometric errors of approximately 0.01 magnitudes. Image A exhibited a sharp drop of about 0.1 magnitudes in late December 1994; no other strong features were recorded in either image. This event displays none of the expected generic features of a microlensing-induced flux variation and is likely to be intrinsic to the quasar; if so, it should also be seen in the B image with the lensing differential time delay. We give the expected 1996 image B light curves based on two values of the time delay and brightness ratio which have been proposed and debated in the literature. Continued monitoring of the system in the first half of 1996 should easily detect the image B event and thus resolve the time-delay controversy.

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