Discovery of four gravitationally lensed quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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作者
Oguri, Masamune [1 ,2 ]
Inada, Naohisa [3 ,4 ]
Clocchiatti, Alejandro [5 ]
Kayo, Issha [6 ]
Shin, Min-Su [2 ]
Hennawi, Joseph F. [7 ]
Strauss, Michael A. [2 ]
Morokuma, Tomoki [4 ,8 ]
Schneider, Donald P. [9 ]
York, Donald G. [10 ,11 ]
机构
[1] Stanford Univ, Kavli Inst Partical Astrophys & Cosmol, Menlo Pk, CA 94025 USA
[2] Princeton Univ Observ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[3] RIKEN, Cosm Radiat Lab, Inst Phys & Chem Res, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan
[4] Univ Tokyo, Fac Sci, Astron Inst, Tokyo 1810015, Japan
[5] Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Dept Astron & Astrofis, Santiago 22, Chile
[6] Nagoya Univ, Dept Phys & Astrophys, Nagoya, Aichi 4648062, Japan
[7] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Astron, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[8] Natl Astron Observ, Opt & Infrared Astron Div, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[9] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[10] Univ Chicago, Dept Astron & Astrophys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[11] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
关键词
gravitational lensing; quasars : general;
D O I
10.1088/0004-6256/135/2/520
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present the discovery of four gravitationally lensed quasars selected from the spectroscopic quasar catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We describe imaging and spectroscopic follow-up observations that support the lensing interpretation of the following four quasars: SDSS J0832+ 0404 (image separation theta = 1.'' 98, source redshift z(s) = 1.115, lens redshift z(l) = 0.659); SDSS J1216+ 3529 (theta = 1.'' 49, z(s) = 2.012); SDSS J1322+1052 (theta = 2.'' 00, z(s) = 1.716); and SDSS J1524+4409 (theta = 1.'' 67, z(s) = 1.210, z(l) = 0.320). Each system has two lensed images. We find that the fainter image component of SDSS J0832+ 0404 is significantly redder than the brighter component, perhaps because of differential reddening by the lensing galaxy. The lens potential of SDSS J1216+ 3529 might be complicated by the presence of a secondary galaxy near the main lensing galaxy.
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