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The four-image gravitational lens system MG0414+0534 was observed with the VLA at 1.4, 5, 8, 15, and 22 GHz. The 15 and 22 GHz images reveal structure in the components which is consistent with that seen at other wavelengths. There was no…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 C. A. Katz , C. B. Moore , J. N. Hewitt

We present updated results of a high-resolution, magnitude limited (Ks<12 mag) imaging survey of nearby low-mass M6.0-M7.5 field stars. The observations were carried out using adaptive optics at the Gemini North, VLT, Keck II, and Subaru…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nick Siegler , Laird M. Close , Kelle L. Cruz , Eduardo L. Martin , I. Neill Reid

We report the discovery of the brightest detached binary white dwarfs with periods less than an hour, which provide two new gravitational wave verification binaries for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The first one, SMSS…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Mukremin Kilic , Warren R. Brown , A. Bedard , Alekzander Kosakowski

We present deep Chandra observations of PSO J231.6576$-$20.8335, a quasar at redshift z=6.59 with a nearby (${\sim}8$ proper kpc) companion galaxy. ALMA observed both the quasar and companion to be bright in [C II], and the system has…

Herschel Space Observatory photometry and extensive multiwavelength followup have revealed that the powerful radio galaxy 3C 220.3 at z=0.685 acts as a gravitational lens for a background submillimeter galaxy (SMG) at z=2.221. At an…

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries with masses of ~10^8--10^9 Msun are expected to dominate the contribution to the as-yet undetected gravitational wave background (GWB) signal at the nanohertz frequencies accessible to Pulsar Timing…

A new catalog of 8382 close quasar-galaxy pairs is presented. The catalog was composed using published catalogs of quasars and active galactic nuclei containing 11358 objects, as well as the LEDA catalog of galaxies, which contains on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. L. Bukhmastova

Very deep ESO/VLT FORS1 and ISAAC images, as well as HST NICMOS2 data are used to infer the nature of the quasar pair LBQS 1429-0053 A and B, either a binary quasar or a doubly-imaged lensed quasar. Direct search of a putative lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Faure , D. Alloin , S. Gras , F. Courbin , J. -P. Kneib , P. Hudelot

We present Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) observations of SDSS J0924+0219, a z = 1.524 radio-quiet lensed quasar with an intrinsic radio flux density of about 3 micro-Jy. The four lensed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-08 S. Badole , N. Jackson , P. Hartley , D. Sluse , H. R. Stacey , H. Vives-Arias

In this work, we calculated the sizes of unresolved X-ray emission regions in three gravitationally lensed radio-loud quasars, B\,1422+231, MG\,J0414+0534 and Q\,0957+561, using a combination of imaging and spectral analysis on the X-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-12 Mustafa Burak Dogruel , Xinyu Dai , Eduardo Guerras , Matthew Cornachione , Christopher W. Morgan

Context: The highest redshift quasars at z>~6 receive considerable attention since they provide strong constraints on the growth of the earliest supermassive black holes. They also probe the epoch of reionisation and serve as "lighthouses"…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-10 S. Frey , L. I. Gurvits , Z. Paragi , K. E. Gabanyi

We present the discovery and characterization of a radio-bright binary in the Galactic globular cluster M10. First identified in deep radio continuum data from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, M10-VLA1 has a flux density of $27\pm4$…

We report the discovery of a new gravitationally lensed quasar (double) from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) identified inside the $\sim$670 sq. deg area encompassing the Magellanic Clouds. The source was selected as one…

Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for the study of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The cold-dark-matter model of the formation of large-scale structures predicts the existence of quasars gravitationally lensed by…

We preform a systematic search for galactic-scale quasar pairs and small-scale (<3 arcsec) lenses using the SDSS DR16 quasar catalog and Gaia DR3. Candidate double quasars (both are unobscured) are identified as Gaia resolved pairs around…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-10 Yuanzhe Jiang , Yue Shen , Xin Liu , Nadia Zakamska , Ming-yang Zhuang , Arran C. Gross , Junyao Li , Yu-ching Chen , Yuzo Ishikawa

We present and discuss new spectroscopic observations of the unusual galaxy J2310-43. The observations cover a wide wavelength range, from 3700 A to 9800 A allowing the study of both the regions where H alpha and the Ca II ``contrast'' are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Caccianiga , T. Maccacaro

We report the discovery of a double-double radio galaxy (DDRG), J0041+3224, with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) and subsequent high-frequency observations with the Very Large Array (VLA). The inner and outer doubles are aligned…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. J. Saikia , C. Konar , V. K. Kulkarni

The prominent radio quasar PKS 2215+020 (J2217+0220) was once labelled as a new laboratory for core--jet physics at redshift z=3.572 because of its exceptionally extended jet structure traceable with very long baseline interferometric…

We report on discovery results from a quasar lens search in the ATLAS public footprint, extending quasar lens searches to a regime without $u-$band or fiber-spectroscopic information, using a combination of data mining techniques on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 A. Agnello , P. L. Schechter , N. D. Morgan , T. Treu , C. Grillo , D. Malesani , T. Anguita , Y. Apostolovski , C. E. Rusu , V. Motta , K. Rojas , B. Chehade , T. Shanks

Only very few z>5 quasars discovered to date are radio-loud, with a radio-to-optical flux ratio (radio-loudness parameter) higher than 10. Here we report the discovery of an optically luminous radio-loud quasar, SDSS J013127.34-032100.1…