Restoration of Brightness Distributions across Quasar's Accretion Disk from Observations of High Magnification Events in Components of Gravitational Lens QSO 2237+0305
We present a technique for the successive restoration of the branches of the one-dimensional strip brightness distribution across a quasar's accretion disk via the analysis of observations of high magnification events in measured fluxes from the multiple quasar images produced by a gravitational lens. Hypothesizing these events to by associated with microlensing by a fold caustic, the branches of brightness distribution are searched for on compact sets of non-negative, monotonically non-increasing, convex downward functions. The results of numerical simulations show that the solution obtained is stable against random noise. Analysis of the light curves of high magnification events in the fluxes from components C and A of the gravitational lens QSO 2237+0305, observed by the OGLE and GLITP groups, has yielded the forms of the strip brightness distributions across the accretion disk of the lensed quasar. The resulting sizes of the accretion disk are in agreement with results obtained earlier via model-fitting. The form of the brightness distribution is consistent with the expected appearance of an accretion disk rotating around supermassive black hole.