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Title: The STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) 2016 follow-up campaign. II. New quasar lenses from double component fitting.

Abstract

We report upon the follow-up of 34 candidate lensed quasars found in the Dark Energy Survey using NTT EFOSC, Magellan-IMACS, KECK-ESI, and SOAR-SAMI. These candidates were selected by a combination of double component fitting, morphological assessment, and colour analysis. Most systems followed up are indeed composed of at least one quasar image and 13 with two or more quasar images: two lenses, four projected binaries, and seven nearly identical quasar pairs (NIQs). The two systems confirmed as genuine gravitationally lensed quasars are one quadruple at zs = 1.713 and one double at zs = 1.515. Lens modelling of these two systems reveals that both systems require very little contribution from the environment to reproduce the image configuration. Nevertheless, small flux anomalies can be observed in one of the images of the quad. Further observations of nine inconclusive systems (including seven NIQs) will allow to confirm (or not) their gravitational lens nature.

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  1. Departamento de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Andres Bello Fernandez Concha 700, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile; Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Chile
  2. MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
  3. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P. O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
  4. Staples High School, Westport, CT 06880, USA
  5. Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK; CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil, Brasilia - DF 70040-020, Brazil
  6. Department of Physics and Astronomy, PAB, 430 Portola Plaza, Box 951547, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547, USA
  7. European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, 85748 Garching bei München, DE
  8. Departamento de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Andres Bello Fernandez Concha 700, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
  9. Department of Physics, University of California Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
  10. Instituto de Física y Astronomía, Universidad de Valparaíso, Avda. Gran Bretaña 1111, Playa Ancha, Valparaíso 2360102, Chile
  11. Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 650 N Aohoku Pl, Hilo, HI 96720, USA
  12. Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
  13. Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile
  14. Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 813 Santa Barbara St., Pasadena, CA 91101, USA
  15. CNRS, UMR 7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, F-75014, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, F-75014, Paris, France
  16. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
  17. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, P. O. Box 2450, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
  18. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil; Observatório Nacional, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil
  19. Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 West Clark St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
  20. Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
  21. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, P. O. Box 2450, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
  22. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
  23. Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
  24. George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
  25. Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad, Kandi, Telangana 502285, India
  26. Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
  27. Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
  28. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK; Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 16, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
  29. Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
  30. Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
  31. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
  32. Australian Astronomical Observatory, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia
  33. Departamento de Física Matemática, Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, São Paulo, SP, 05314-970, Brazil; Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil
  34. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, E-08010 Barcelona, Spain; Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
  35. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
  36. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
  37. Brandeis University, Physics Department, 415 South Street, Waltham MA 02453
  38. Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-859, Campinas, SP, Brazil; Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil
  39. Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
  40. Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
Contributing Org.:
DES Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1462212
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1479698
Report Number(s):
arXiv:1805.12151; FERMILAB-PUB-18-236-AE
Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711; 1675832; TRN: US1902119
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359; AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 480; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher:
Royal Astronomical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS

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Anguita, T., Schechter, P. L., Kuropatkin, N., Morgan, N. D., Ostrovski, F., Abramson, L. E., Agnello, A., Apostolovski, Y., Fassnacht, C. D., Hsueh, J. W., Motta, V., Rojas, K., Rusu, C. E., Treu, T., Williams, P., Auger, M., Buckley-Geer, E., Lin, H., McMahon, R., Abbott, T. M. C., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bernstein, R. A., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Cunha, C. E., D’Andrea, C. B., De Vicente, J., DePoy, D. L., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Flaugher, B., García-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D. W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Hartley, W. G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., Miquel, R., Plazas, A. A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., and Walker, A. R. The STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) 2016 follow-up campaign. II. New quasar lenses from double component fitting.. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty2172.
Anguita, T., Schechter, P. L., Kuropatkin, N., Morgan, N. D., Ostrovski, F., Abramson, L. E., Agnello, A., Apostolovski, Y., Fassnacht, C. D., Hsueh, J. W., Motta, V., Rojas, K., Rusu, C. E., Treu, T., Williams, P., Auger, M., Buckley-Geer, E., Lin, H., McMahon, R., Abbott, T. M. C., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bernstein, R. A., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Cunha, C. E., D’Andrea, C. B., De Vicente, J., DePoy, D. L., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Flaugher, B., García-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D. W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Hartley, W. G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., Miquel, R., Plazas, A. A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., & Walker, A. R. The STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) 2016 follow-up campaign. II. New quasar lenses from double component fitting.. United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2172
Anguita, T., Schechter, P. L., Kuropatkin, N., Morgan, N. D., Ostrovski, F., Abramson, L. E., Agnello, A., Apostolovski, Y., Fassnacht, C. D., Hsueh, J. W., Motta, V., Rojas, K., Rusu, C. E., Treu, T., Williams, P., Auger, M., Buckley-Geer, E., Lin, H., McMahon, R., Abbott, T. M. C., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bernstein, R. A., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Cunha, C. E., D’Andrea, C. B., De Vicente, J., DePoy, D. L., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Flaugher, B., García-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D. W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Hartley, W. G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., Miquel, R., Plazas, A. A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., and Walker, A. R. Thu . "The STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) 2016 follow-up campaign. II. New quasar lenses from double component fitting.". United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2172. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1462212.
@article{osti_1462212,
title = {The STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) 2016 follow-up campaign. II. New quasar lenses from double component fitting.},
author = {Anguita, T. and Schechter, P. L. and Kuropatkin, N. and Morgan, N. D. and Ostrovski, F. and Abramson, L. E. and Agnello, A. and Apostolovski, Y. and Fassnacht, C. D. and Hsueh, J. W. and Motta, V. and Rojas, K. and Rusu, C. E. and Treu, T. and Williams, P. and Auger, M. and Buckley-Geer, E. and Lin, H. and McMahon, R. and Abbott, T. M. C. and Allam, S. and Annis, J. and Bernstein, R. A. and Bertin, E. and Brooks, D. and Burke, D. L. and Rosell, A. Carnero and Kind, M. Carrasco and Carretero, J. and Cunha, C. E. and D’Andrea, C. B. and De Vicente, J. and DePoy, D. L. and Desai, S. and Diehl, H. T. and Doel, P. and Flaugher, B. and García-Bellido, J. and Gerdes, D. W. and Gruen, D. and Gruendl, R. A. and Gschwend, J. and Hartley, W. G. and Hollowood, D. L. and Honscheid, K. and James, D. J. and Kuehn, K. and Lima, M. and Maia, M. A. G. and Miquel, R. and Plazas, A. A. and Sanchez, E. and Scarpine, V. and Smith, M. and Soares-Santos, M. and Sobreira, F. and Suchyta, E. and Tarle, G. and Walker, A. R.},
abstractNote = {We report upon the follow-up of 34 candidate lensed quasars found in the Dark Energy Survey using NTT EFOSC, Magellan-IMACS, KECK-ESI, and SOAR-SAMI. These candidates were selected by a combination of double component fitting, morphological assessment, and colour analysis. Most systems followed up are indeed composed of at least one quasar image and 13 with two or more quasar images: two lenses, four projected binaries, and seven nearly identical quasar pairs (NIQs). The two systems confirmed as genuine gravitationally lensed quasars are one quadruple at zs = 1.713 and one double at zs = 1.515. Lens modelling of these two systems reveals that both systems require very little contribution from the environment to reproduce the image configuration. Nevertheless, small flux anomalies can be observed in one of the images of the quad. Further observations of nine inconclusive systems (including seven NIQs) will allow to confirm (or not) their gravitational lens nature.},
doi = {10.1093/mnras/sty2172},
journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
number = 4,
volume = 480,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Thu Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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