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SDSS的两个新的大分离引力透镜

Two New Large Separation Gravitational Lenses from SDSS

V. Belokurov, N. W. Evans, P. C. Hewett, A. Moiseev, R. G. McMahon, S. F. Sanchez, L. J. King

摘要:

我们目前的发现图像,以及后续的成像和光谱学,两个大的分离引力透镜发现我们的调查宽弧(CASSOWARY)。该巡天利用斯隆数字巡天(英语:Sloan Digital Sky Survey)的射电光度学来寻找红色星系周围的多个蓝色成分。CASSOWARY~2(或“柴郡猫”)是由两个质量分别为z = 0.426和0.432的大质量早型星系组成的,它们透镜化了两个背景源,第一个是z = 0.97的恒星形成星系,第二个是高红移星系(z> 1.4)。至少有三个图像的前源和可能四个或更多的后者,安排在两个巨大的弧形。包围在半径为11弧秒的较大弧内的质量约为33 x 10^{12}太阳质量。CASSOWARY~3包括z = 0.725源的三个明亮图像的弧,由z = 0.274的前景椭圆透镜。弧的半径约为4角秒,封闭的质量为2.5 x 10^{12}太阳质量。这些新系统与早期的发现,如宇宙马蹄铁和8点钟弧一起,其分离介于典型强星系透镜的弧秒分离透镜和较大的分离星团透镜之间,探测了星系质量函数的高端。

英文摘要:

We present discovery images, together with follow-up imaging and spectroscopy, of two large separation gravitational lenses found by our survey for wide arcs (the CASSOWARY). The survey exploits the multicolor photometry of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to find multiple blue components around red galaxies. CASSOWARY~2 (or "the Cheshire Cat") is composed of two massive early-type galaxies at z = 0.426 and 0.432 respectively lensing two background sources, the first a star-forming galaxy at z = 0.97 and the second a high redshift galaxy (z> 1.4). There are at least three images of the former source and probably four or more of the latter, arranged in two giant arcs. The mass enclosed within the larger arc of radius 11 arcsecs is about 33 x 10^{12} solar masses. CASSOWARY~3 comprises an arc of three bright images of a z = 0.725 source, lensed by a foreground elliptical at z = 0.274. The radius of the arc is about 4 arcsecs and the enclosed mass is 2.5 x 10^{12} solar masses. Together with earlier discoveries like the Cosmic Horseshoe and the 8 O'Clock Arc, these new systems, with separations intermediate between the arcsecond separation lenses of typical strong galaxy lensing and the larger separation cluster lenses, probe the very high end of the galaxy mass function.

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