A New Gravitational Lens Candidate with Large Image Separation in the SDSS DR5 Data
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The discovery of a gravitational lens candidate is reported. The quasars SDSS J111611.73+411821.5 and SDSS J111610.68+411814.4 are recognized as two images of the same object, being strongly lensed by the closer galaxy SDSS J111611.03+411820.9. The source is located at a redshift of z~3, while the redshift of the lens galaxy is z~0.25. The separation of the images is large,~13 arcsec. Commonly used models of the mass distribution for the lens galaxy with values of the parameters in the expected range describe the positions and fluxes of the images.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0701537,
title = {A New Gravitational Lens Candidate with Large Image Separation in the SDSS DR5 Data},
author = {E. Sanchez Alvaro and F. J. Rodriguez Calonge},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0701537},
year = {2007}
}
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14 pages, 3 figures