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We model an apparent gravitational lens system HDFS 2232509-603243 in the Hubble Deep Field South. The system consists of a blue V=25 mag arc separated by 0.9 arcsec from a red V=22 mag elliptical galaxy. A mass distribution which follows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rennan Barkana , Roger Blandford , David Hogg

Observations with the PC2 CCD of the Hubble Space Telescope are described of two bright QSOs of redshift ~0.3. 1403+434 is IR-bright and radio-quiet, and 2201+315 is radio-loud with extended structure. Exposures were taken with the F702W…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. B. Hutchings , S. C. Morris

Structure on sub-galactic scales provides important tests of galaxy formation models and the nature of dark matter. However, such objects are typically too faint to provide robust mass constraints. Here, we report the discovery of an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 D. M. Powell , J. P. McKean , S. Vegetti , C. Spingola , S. D. M. White , C. D. Fassnacht

We report discovery of a compact object at high Galactic latitude. The object was initially identified as a ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog X-ray source, 1RXS J141256.0+792204, statistically likely to possess a high X-ray to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. E. Rutledge , D. B. Fox , A. H. Shevchuk

The combination of deep exposures and high resolution offered by telescopes in space allows the detection of lensing over a wide range of source redshifts and lens masses. As an example, we model a lens candidate found in the southern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rennan Barkana , David Hogg , Abraham Loeb , Roger Blandford

We have discovered strong gravitational lensing by the galaxy ESO325-G004, in images obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope. The lens galaxy is a boxy group-dominant elliptical at z=0.0345, making this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Russell J. Smith , John P. Blakeslee , John R. Lucey , John Tonry

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Sanchez Alvaro , F. J. Rodriguez Calonge

We present HST observations of seven unusual objects from the HST ``snapshot survey'' of BL Lac objects, of which four are gravitational lens candidates. In three cases a double point sources is observed: 0033+595, with 1.58 arcsec…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Scarpa , C. M. Urry , R. Falomo , J. E. Pesce , R. Webster , M. O'Dowd , A. Treves

We present a new SCUBA image of the cluster MS0451.6-0305, which exhibits strong, extended sub-mm flux at 850 microns. The most striking feature in the map is an elongated region of bright sub-mm emission, with a flux density of >10 mJy…

We report the discovery of seven new, very bright gravitational lens systems from our ongoing gravitational lens search, the Sloan Bright Arcs Survey (SBAS). Two of the systems are confirmed to have high source redshifts z=2.19 and z=2.94.…

We report the discovery of four very bright, strongly-lensed galaxies found via systematic searches for arcs in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 and 6. These were followed-up with spectroscopy and imaging data from the Astrophysical…

We have compiled a sample of 234 ultra-steep-spectrum (USS) selected radio sources in order to find high-redshift radio galaxies. The sample covers the declination range -40deg < DEC < -30deg in the overlap region between the 1400-MHz NRAO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. J. Bryant , J. W. Broderick , H. M. Johnston , R. W. Hunstead , B. M. Gaensler , C. De Breuck

We have produced deep radio maps of the double quasar 0957+561 from multiple-epoch VLA observations. To achieve high sensitivity to extended structure we have re-reduced the best available 1.6 GHz observations and have combined 5 GHz data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 I. M. Avruch , A. S. Cohen , J. Lehar , S. R. Conner , D. B. Haarsma , B. F. Burke

The class of radio sources known as Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs) is of particular interest in the study of the evolution of radio galaxies. CSOs are thought to be young (probably ~10^4 years), and a very high fraction of them exhibit HI…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. B. Peck , G. B. Taylor

We report that the Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar SDSS J165043.44+425149.3 is gravitationally lensed into two images, based on observations obtained with the WIYN 3.5 m telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. The lensed quasar, at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Nicholas D. Morgan , Jeffrey A. Snyder , Louis H. Reens

We report the discovery of a strongly lensed arc system around a field elliptical galaxy in Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) images of a parallel field observed during NICMOS observations of the HST Ultra-Deep…

Low-frequency radio observations of neutral hydrogen during and before the epoch of cosmic reionization will provide hundreds of quasi-independent source planes, each of precisely known redshift, if a resolution of ~ 1 arcminutes or better…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 R. Benton Metcalf

Quadruple gravitational lens systems offer the possibility of measuring time delays for image pairs, microlensing effects, and extinction in distant galaxies. Observations of these systems may be used to obtain estimates of H_o and to study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Emilio E. Falco , Joseph Lehar , Irwin I. Shapiro

We have observed nine QSOs with redshifts 0.85 to 4.16 at near-IR wavelengths with the adaptive optics bonnette of the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope. Exposure times ranged from 1500 to 24000s (mostly near 7000s) in J, H, or K bands, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. B. Hutchings , D. Crampton , S. L. Morris , D. Durand , E. Steinbring

We present the discovery and preliminary characterization of a gravitationally lensed quasar with a source redshift $z_{s}=2.74$ and image separation of $2.9"$ lensed by a foreground $z_{l}=0.40$ elliptical galaxy. Since the images of…

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