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AGN STORM 2. XII. Ground-Based Optical Photometry and Lag Measurements of Mrk 817
John W. Montano, Aaron J. Barth, Keith Horne +40
We present the ground-based imaging campaign and light curves of Markarian 817 as part of the multiwavelength monitoring program AGN STORM\,2. Observations were carried out over 1.…
AGN STORM 2. XI. Spectroscopic reverberation mapping of the hot dust in Mrk 817
Hermine Landt, Benjamin D. Boizelle, Michael S. Brotherton +41
The AGN Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping 2 (STORM 2) campaign targeted Mrk 817 with intensive multi-wavelength monitoring and found its soft X-ray emission to be s…
Microlensing analysis of 14.5-year light curves in SDSS J1004+4112: Quasar accretion disk size and intracluster stellar mass fraction
R. Forés-Toribio, J. A. Muñoz, C. Fian +2
Context. The gravitational lens system SDSS J1004+4112 was the first known example of a quasar lensed by a galaxy cluster. The interest in this system has been renewed following th…
AGN STORM 2: X. The origin of the interband continuum delays in Mrk 817
Hagai Netzer, Michael R. Goad, Aaron J. Barth +26
The local (z=0.0315) AGN Mrk 817, was monitored over more than 500 days with space-borne and ground-based instruments as part of a large international campaign AGN STORM 2. Here, w…
First Direct Evidence for Keplerian Rotation in Quasar Inner Broad Line Regions
C. Fian, J. Jiménez-Vicente, E. Mediavilla +4
We introduce a novel method to derive rotation curves with light-day spatial resolution of the inner regions of lensed quasars. We aim to probe the kinematics of the inner part of…
Revealing the inner workings of the lensed quasar SDSS J1339+1310: Insights from microlensing analysis
C. Fian, J. A. Muñoz, J. Jiménez-Vicente +4
We aim to unveil the structure of the continuum and broad-emission line (BEL) emitting regions in the gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1339+1310 by examining the distinct signat…
AGN STORM 2: VIII. Investigating the Narrow Absorption Lines in Mrk 817 Using HST-COS Observations
Maryam Dehghanian, Nahum Arav, Gerard A. Kriss +39
We observed the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk817 during an intensive multi-wavelength reverberation mapping campaign for 16 months. Here, we examine the behavior of narrow UV absorption lin…
Single-epoch and Differential Astrometric Microlensing of Quasars
R. Forés-Toribio, E. Mediavilla, J. A. Muñoz +3
We propose and discuss a new experimental approach to measure the centroid shift induced by gravitational microlensing in the images of lensed quasars (astrometric microlensing). O…
Probing the structure of the lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112 through microlensing analysis of spectroscopic data
C. Fian, J. A. Muñoz, R. Forés-Toribio +5
We aim to reveal the sizes of the continuum and broad emission line (BEL) emitting regions in the gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112 by analyzing the unique signatures o…
AGN STORM 2: V. Anomalous Behavior of the CIV Light Curve in Mrk 817
Y. Homayouni, Gerard A. Kriss, Gisella De Rosa +49
An intensive reverberation mapping campaign on the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk817 using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) revealed significant vari…
Diffuse emission in microlensed quasars and its implications for accretion-disk physics
C. Fian, D. Chelouche, S. Kaspi
We investigate the discrepancy between the predicted size of accretion disks (ADs) in quasars and the observed sizes as deduced from gravitational microlensing studies. Specificall…
Revealing the structure of the lensed quasar Q 0957+561 III. Constraints on the size of the broad-line region
C. Fian, J. A. Muñoz, E. Mediavilla +6
Our aim is to examine the size, kinematics, and geometry of the broad-line region (BLR) in the double-lensed quasar Q 0957+561 by analyzing the impact of microlensing on various re…
AGN STORM 2: II. Ultraviolet Observations of Mrk817 with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope
Y. Homayouni, Gisella De Rosa, Rachel Plesha +62
We present reverberation mapping measurements for the prominent ultraviolet broad emission lines of the active galactic nucleus Mrk817 using 165 spectra obtained with the Cosmic Or…
Continuum reverberation mapping of MCG 08-11-011
C. Fian, D. Chelouche, S. Kaspi +3
We report the results from a photometric reverberation mapping campaign carried out with the C18 telescope at the Wise Observatory from 2019 to 2020, targeting the active galactic…
Continuum reverberation mapping of the quasar PG 2130+099
C. Fian, D. Chelouche, S. Kaspi +3
We present the results of an intensive six-month optical continuum reverberation mapping campaign of the Seyfert 1 galaxy PG 2130+099 at redshift z=0.063. The ground-based photomet…
Revealing the structure of the lensed quasar Q 0957+561: I. Accretion disk size
C. Fian, E. Mediavilla, J. Jiménez-Vicente +6
We aim to use signatures of microlensing induced by stars in the foreground lens galaxy to infer the size of the accretion disk in the gravitationally lensed quasar Q 0957+561. The…
Revealing the structure of the lensed quasar Q 0957+561: III. SMBH mass via gravitational redshift
C. Fian, E. Mediavilla, J. Jiménez-Vicente +4
We intend to use the impact of microlensing on the Fe III emission line blend along with a measure of its gravitational redshift to estimate the mass of the quasar's central superm…
Microlensing of the broad emission lines in 27 gravitationally lensed quasars. Broad line region structure and kinematics
C. Fian, E. Mediavilla, V. Motta +4
We aim to study the structure and kinematics of the broad line region (BLR) of a sample of 27 gravitationally lensed quasars with up to five different epochs of observation. This s…
Individual Estimates of the Virial Factor in 10 Quasars: Implications on the Kinematics of the Broad Line Region
E. Mediavilla, J. Jiménez-Vicente, J. Mejí A-Restrepo +5
Assuming a gravitational origin for the Fe III2039-2113 redshift and using microlensing based estimates of the size of the region emitting this feature, we obtain individual me…
Microlensing Analysis for the gravitational lens systems SDSS0924+0219, Q1355-2257, and SDSS1029+2623
K. Rojas, V. Motta, E. Mediavilla +3
We use spectroscopic observations of the gravitationally lensed systems SDSS0924+0219(BC), Q1355-2257(AB), and SDSS1029+2623(BC) to analyze microlensing and dust extinction in the…
Spectroscopy and polarimetry of the gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112 with the 6m SAO RAS telescope
L. Č. Popović, V. L. Afanasiev, A. Moiseev +5
We present new spectroscopic and polarimetric observations of the gravitational lens SDSS J1004+4112 taken with the 6m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO, Russ…
Measuring Supermassive Black Hole Masses: Correlation between the Redshifts of the Fe III UV Lines and the Widths of Broad Emission Lines
E. Mediavilla, J. JimÉnez-Vicente, J. MejÍa-Restrepo +5
We test the recently proposed (Mediavilla et al. 2018) black hole mass scaling relationship based on the redshift {with respect to the quasar's rest frame} of the Fe III2039-21…
The Most Powerful Lenses in the Universe: Quasar Microlensing as a Probe of the Lensing Galaxy
David Pooley, Timo Anguita, Saloni Bhatiani +14
Optical and X-ray observations of strongly gravitationally lensed quasars (especially when four separate images of the quasar are produced) determine not only the amount of matter…
Astro2020 Science White Paper - Quasar Microlensing: Revolutionizing our Understanding of Quasar Structure and Dynamics
Leonidas Moustakas, Matthew O'Dowd, Timo Anguita +20
Microlensing by stars within distant galaxies acting as strong gravitational lenses of multiply-imaged quasars, provides a unique and direct measurement of the internal structure o…