X-Ray Microlensing of Bright Quasars

Details X-Ray Microlensing of Bright Quasars X-Ray Microlensing of Bright Quasars

2001-07-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107087v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 4 Postscript figures

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We calculated the expected microlens light curves for several accretion-flow models and compared the results to find what aspects of distinct flow structures can be extracted from the microlens light curves. As for the flow models, we considered the standard disk, optically thin advection-dominated flow, and the disk-corona model by Kawaguchi et al., which can nicely reproduce the observed quasar spectra. The calculated microlens light curves of the disk-corona model exhibit rapid soft X-ray and slow hard X-ray variations. This is because the former is generated by Compton up-scattering of soft (optical -- UV) photons from the innermost part of the disk body, while the latter is emitted via bremsstrahlung within the corona at relatively large radii. Furthermore, an inhomogeneous emissivity distribution over the disk produces humps in the microlens light curves because of enhanced microlens amplification of the bright areas. It is hoped that black-hole accretion theory coupled with future multi-wavelength microlens observations will be able to reveal such spatial and temporal behaviors of flows in the vicinity of black holes.

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