English

Identifying Rings in IFU Surveys

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2017-11-10 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

Gravitational lensings provide unique opportunities to study distant galaxies. Despite their usefulness, only a dozens of gravitational arcs have been reported up-to-date, hampered by the low resolution imaging from ground-based surveys. We propose a novel method to identify Einstein rings/arcs in the IFU surveys via image subtraction and computer vision techniques. We use the recent discovered strong lens system in the MaNGA survey as a proof-of-concept; in addition to MaNGA, our approach is applicable to other IFU surveys, such as SAMI, CALIFA, Hector, DESI, and 4MOST.

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@article{arxiv.1711.03094,
  title  = {Identifying Rings in IFU Surveys},
  author = {Chien-Hsiu Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.03094},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

2 pages, 1 figure, RNAAS accepted

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