The FIRST Efficient Gravitational Lens Survey
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We have found three gravitational lenses (two are new) by observing 34 likely FIRST radio lobes with APM galaxy counterparts. We expect to find such lenses in over the next few years, which will significantly improve lensing constraints on galaxy structure and cosmology.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9908353,
title = {The FIRST Efficient Gravitational Lens Survey},
author = {J. Lehar and A. Buchalter and R. McMahon and C. Kochanek and D. Helfand and R. Becker and T. Muxlow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9908353},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
submitted to "Gravitational Lensing: Recent progress and Future Goals", eds: T.Brainerd and C.Kochanek, ASP Conf Series. 2 pages, 1 PS figure. LaTex using paspman.tex, psfig2.tex