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通过大质量星系团增强透镜率:在SLACS领域新发现的系统

Enhanced lensing rate by clustering of massive galaxies: newly discovered systems in the SLACS fields

Elisabeth R. Newton, Philip J. Marshall, Tommaso Treu

摘要:

[摘要]我们利用大质量星系的聚集来进行引力透镜的高效成像搜索。我们的数据集由哈勃太空望远镜(HST)高级巡天相机(ACS)成像的44个视场组成,每个视场都以强透镜ACS巡天(SLACS)发现的透镜为中心。我们比较了四种不同的搜索方法:1)使用HST档案星系尺度引力透镜调查(HAGGLeS)机器人进行自动检测,2)在减去平滑的星系光分布后检查明亮星系(BG)的剪切图像,3)检查未减影的BG剪切图像,以及4)对ACS图像进行全帧视觉检查。我们计算纯度和完整性,并考虑调查时间的四个算法,使用主要的SLACS镜头作为测试平台。第一种和第二种算法性能最好。我们提出了四个新的镜头系统发现在这个全面的搜索,以及其他一个可能的候选人。对于每一个新的透镜,我们使用的基本平面来估计透镜的速度色散和预测,从所得的透镜的几何形状,透镜源的红移。其中两个新系统是在星系团中发现的,星系团中包括两个各自领域的SLACS透镜。总的来说,我们发现增强的透镜丰度(30^{+24}_{-8}透镜/度^2)高于随机场的预期值(COSMOS巡天的12^{+4}_{-2}透镜/度^2)。此外,我们发现,我们检测到的引力透镜是定性不同的母SLACS样本:这个成像调查主要是探测高红移,低质量,早期类型的星系。

英文摘要:

[Abridged] We exploit the clustering of massive galaxies to perform a high efficiency imaging search for gravitational lenses. Our dataset comprises 44 fields imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), each of which is centered on a lens discovered by the Strong Lens ACS Survey (SLACS). We compare four different search methods: 1) automated detection with the HST Archive Galaxy-scale Gravitational Lens Survey (HAGGLeS) robot, 2) examining cutout images of bright galaxies (BGs) after subtraction of a smooth galaxy light distribution, 3) examining the unsubtracted BG cutouts, and 4) performing a full-frame visual inspection of the ACS images. We compute purity and completeness and consider investigator time for the four algorithms, using the main SLACS lenses as a testbed. The first and second algorithms perform the best. We present the four new lens systems discovered during this comprehensive search, as well as one other likely candidate. For each new lens we use the fundamental plane to estimate the lens velocity dispersion and predict, from the resulting lens geometry, the redshifts of the lensed sources. Two of these new systems are found in galaxy clusters, which include the SLACS lenses in the two respective fields. Overall we find that the enhanced lens abundance (30^{+24}_{-8} lenses/degree^2) is higher than expected for random fields (12^{+4}_{-2} lenses/degree^2 for the COSMOS survey). Additionally, we find that the gravitational lenses we detect are qualitatively different from those in the parent SLACS sample: this imaging survey is largely probing higher-redshift, and lower-mass, early-type galaxies.

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