Continuum reverberation mapping in a z = 1.41 radio-loud quasar

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2012-01-19

arxiv.org/abs/1201.4125v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

6 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings of The Central Kiloparsec in Galactic Nuclei-AHAR2011 Conference, to appear in Journal of Phys

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Q0957+561 was the first discovered gravitationally lensed quasar. The mirage shows two images of a radio-loud quasar at redshift z = 1.41. The time lag between these two images is well established around one year. We detected a very prominent variation in the optical brightness of Q0957+561A at the beginning of 2009, which allowed us to predict the presence of significant intrinsic variations in multi-wavelength light curves of Q0957+561B over the first semester of 2010. To study the predicted brightness fluctuations of Q0957+561B, we conducted an X-ray, NUV, optical and NIR monitoring campaign using both ground-based and space-based facilities. The continuum NUV-optical light curves revealed evidence of a centrally irradiated, standard accretion disk. In this paper, we focus on the radial structure of the standard accretion disk and the nature of the central irradiating source in the distant radio-loud active galactic nucleus (AGN).

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