Discovery of four doubly imaged quasar lenses from the Sloan digital sky survey

Journal Article · Sun Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 2014 · Astronomical Journal (New York, N.Y. Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/147/6/153· OSTI ID:22340112

Inada, Naohisa ^[1]; Oguri, Masamune ^[2]; Rusu, Cristian E. ^[3]; Kayo, Issha ^[4]; Morokuma, Tomoki ^[5]

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1. Department of Physics, Nara National College of Technology, Yamatokohriyama, Nara 639-1080 (Japan)
2. Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 (Japan)
3. Optical and Infrared Astronomy Division, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1, Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588 (Japan)
4. Department of Physics, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba 274-8510 (Japan)
5. Institute of Astronomy, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-0015 (Japan)

We report the discovery of four doubly imaged quasar lenses. All the four systems are selected as lensed quasar candidates from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data. We confirm their lensing hypothesis with additional imaging and spectroscopic follow-up observations. The discovered lenses are SDSS J0743+2457 with the source redshift z{sub s} = 2.165, the lens redshift z{sub l} = 0.381, and the image separation θ = 1.''034, SDSS J1128+2402 with z{sub s} = 1.608 and θ = 0.''844, SDSS J1405+0959 with z{sub s} = 1.810, z{sub l} ≈ 0.66, and θ = 1.''978, and SDSS J1515+1511 with z{sub s} = 2.054, z{sub l} = 0.742, and θ = 1.''989. It is difficult to estimate the lens redshift of SDSS J1128+2402 from the current data. Two of the four systems (SDSS J1405+0959 and SDSS J1515+1511) are included in our final statistical lens sample to derive constraints on dark energy and the evolution of massive galaxies.

• OSTI ID: 22340112
• Journal Information: Astronomical Journal (New York, N.Y. Online), Journal Name: Astronomical Journal (New York, N.Y. Online) Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 147; ISSN 1538-3881
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
EVOLUTION
GALAXIES
GRAVITATIONAL LENSES
HYPOTHESIS
IMAGES
LIMITING VALUES
NONLUMINOUS MATTER
QUASARS
RED SHIFT
SKY