Monitoring Microlensing Events In the Quasar RX J1131-1231

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Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #72.13; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, V

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Resolving the emission regions of distant quasars is beyond the current capabilities of present-day telescopes. Direct imaging of accretion disks requires angular resolutions of the order of tens of nano-arcseconds at z 1. Until the spacial resolution of telescopes reaches this limit we will have to rely on indirect methods of mapping the emission regions of quasars. We have initiated a multiwavelength monitoring campaign of several microlensing candidates with the main scientific goal of measuring the structure of AGN in the optical and X-ray bands in order to test disk models. Here we present the X-ray and optical observations of the z = 0.658 lensed quasar and microlensing candidate RX J1131-1231. Our analysis of the well sampled optical light curve of RX J1131-1231 allows us to constrain the microlensing model and use it to model the sparsely sampled X-ray light curve to constrain the size of the X-ray continuum source.

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