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SBS1520 +530的透镜星系性质:来自Keck光谱学和AO成像的见解

Lens Galaxy Properties of SBS1520+530: Insights from Keck Spectroscopy and AO Imaging

M. W. Auger, C. D. Fassnacht, K. C. Wong, D. Thomspon, K. Matthews, B. T. Soifer

摘要:

我们报告的SBS 1520+530引力透镜系统和它的环境使用档案HST成像,凯克光谱数据,凯克自适应光学成像的调查。AO成像使我们能够在进行透镜建模时以高精度修复透镜星系的属性,并且数据表明透镜具有椭圆形态,可能是圆盘。新的光谱数据表明,先前对透镜红移的测定可能是不正确的,我们报告了一个更新的,但不确定的值z_lens = 0.761。我们还用光谱学方法证实了几个星系群的存在,它们的位置大约在透镜系统的红移处。我们创建新的模型的镜头系统,明确占镜头的环境,我们还包括改进的约束,从我们的自适应光学成像的透镜星系。如果H_0固定在72 km/s/Mpc,用这些新数据创建的透镜模型可以很好地拟合比等温模型更陡的质量斜率(α = 2.29,密度与r^-α成正比);等温模型需要H_0 ~ 50 km/s/Mpc。陡峭的轮廓可能表明透镜处于与附近星系相互作用引起的短暂扰动状态。

英文摘要:

We report on an investigation of the SBS 1520+530 gravitational lens system and its environment using archival HST imaging, Keck spectroscopic data, and Keck adaptive-optics imaging. The AO imaging has allowed us to fix the lens galaxy properties with a high degree of precision when performing the lens modeling, and the data indicate that the lens has an elliptical morphology and perhaps a disk. The new spectroscopic data suggest that previous determinations of the lens redshift may be incorrect, and we report an updated, though inconclusive, value z_lens = 0.761. We have also spectroscopically confirmed the existence of several galaxy groups at approximately the redshift of the lens system. We create new models of the lens system that explicitly account for the environment of the lens, and we also include improved constraints on the lensing galaxy from our adaptive-optics imaging. Lens models created with these new data can be well-fit with a steeper than isothermal mass slope (alpha = 2.29, with the density proportional to r^-alpha) if H_0 is fixed at 72 km/s/Mpc; isothermal models require H_0 ~ 50 km/s/Mpc. The steepened profile may indicate that the lens is in a transient perturbed state caused by interactions with a nearby galaxy.

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