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引力透镜的扩展X射线监测及对X射线发射区的Chandra和联合约束

Extended X-ray Monitoring of Gravitational Lenses with Chandra and Joint Constraints on X-ray Emission Regions

Eduardo Guerras, Xinyu Dai, Shaun Steele, Ang Liu, Christopher S. Kochanek, George Chartas, Christopher W. Morgan, Bin Chen

摘要:

我们提出了一个X射线光度分析的六个引力透镜类星体,观测活动从5到14年,测量总(0.83 - 21.8 keV的restframe),软(0.83 - 3.6 keV),硬(3.6 - 21.8 keV)带图像流量比或每个时代。使用模型预测的宏观放大率的比率作为基线,我们建立微分微透镜光变曲线,并获得联合似然函数的平均X射线发射区域的大小。我们的分析得出了样本中X射线发射区平均半光半径的概率分布函数,其峰值略高于1个引力半径,软、硬X射线发射区的68%置信度(单侧)上限为17.8和18.9个引力半径,假设平均恒星质量为0.3个太阳质量。我们在两个物体的软带和硬带之间看到了依赖能量的微透镜的迹象。在对微透镜变化性的均方根的单独分析中,我们发现软带和硬带之间存在显著差异,但差异的符号在整个样本中并不一致。这表明,在一个非常紧凑的源中,X射线发射存在某种空间结构。我们还发现了RMS微透镜变化和平均微透镜振幅之间的相关性。

英文摘要:

We present an X-ray photometric analysis of six gravitationally lensed quasars, with observation campaigns spanning from 5 to 14 years, measuring the total (0.83 - 21.8 keV restframe), soft (0.83 - 3.6 keV), and hard (3.6 - 21.8 keV) band image flux ratios or each epoch. Using the ratios of the model-predicted macro-magnifications as baselines, we build differential microlensing light curves and obtain joint likelihood functions for the average X-ray emission region sizes. Our analysis yields a Probability Distribution Function for the average half-light radius of the X-Ray emission region in the sample that peaks slightly above 1 gravitational radius and with nearly indistinguishable 68% confidence (one-sided) upper limits of 17.8 and 18.9 gravitational radii for the soft and hard X-ray emitting regions, assuming a mean stellar mass of 0.3 solar masses. We see hints of energy dependent microlensing between the soft and hard bands in two of the objects. In a separate analysis on the root-mean-square of the microlensing variability, we find significant differences between the soft and hard bands but the sign of the difference is not consistent across the sample. This suggests the existence of some kind of spatial structure to the X-ray emission in an otherwise extremely compact source. We also discover a correlation between the RMS microlensing variability and the average microlensing amplitude.

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