Accretion Disk Size Measurement and Time Delays in the Lensed Quasar WFI 2033-4723


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We present 13 seasons of $R$-band photometry of the quadruply-lensed quasar WFI 2033-4723 from the 1.3m SMARTS telescope at CTIO and the 1.2m Euler Swiss Telescope at La Silla, in which we detect microlensing variability of $sim0.2$ mags on a timescale of $sim$6 years. Using a Bayesian Monte Carlo technique, we analyze the microlensing signal to obtain a measurement of the size of this systems accretion disk of $log (r_s/{rm cm}) = 15.86^{+0.25}_{-0.27}$ at $lambda_{rest} = 2481{rm AA}$, assuming a $60^circ$ inclination angle. We confirm previous measurements of the BC and AB time delays, and we obtain a tentative measurement of the delay between the closely spaced A1 and A2 images of $Delta t_{A1A2} = t_{A1} - t_{A2} = -3.9^{+3.4}_{-2.2}$ days. We conclude with an update to the Quasar Accretion Disk Size - Black Hole Mass Relation, in which we confirm that the accretion disk size predictions from simple thin disk theory are too small.

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