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A search for edge-on galaxy lenses in the CFHT Legacy Survey

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-05-18 v2

Abstract

[ABRIDGED] The new generation of wide field optical imaging like the Canada France Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS) enables discoveries of all types of gravitational lenses present in the sky. The Strong Lensing Legacy Survey (SL2S) project has started an inventory, respectively for clusters or groups of galaxies lenses, and for Einstein rings around distant massive ellipticals. Here we attempt to extend this inventory by finding lensing events produced by massive edge-on disk galaxies which remains a poorly documented class of lenses. We implement and test an automated search procedure of edge-on galaxy lenses in the CFHTLS Wide fields with magnitude 18

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@article{arxiv.1001.4336,
  title  = {A search for edge-on galaxy lenses in the CFHT Legacy Survey},
  author = {Jean-Francois Sygnet and Hong Tu and Bernard Fort and Raphael Gavazzi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.4336},
  year   = {2015}
}

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several major edits, 8 pages, A&A accepted