ANALYZING THE FLUX ANOMALIES OF THE LARGE-SEPARATION LENSED QUASAR SDSS J1029+2623
- Department of Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (United States)
- Division of Theoretical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588 (Japan)
- Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 (United States)
- Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 (United States)
- Research Center for the Early Universe, School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 (Japan)
Using a high-resolution radio image, we successfully resolve the two-fold image components B and C of the quasar lens system SDSS J1029+2623. The flux anomalies associated with these two components in the optical regime persist, albeit less strongly, in our radio observations suggesting that the cluster must be modeled by something more than a single central potential. We argue that placing substructure close to one of the components can account for a flux anomaly with negligible changes in the component positions. Our best-fit model has a substructure mass of {approx}10{sup 9} M{sub sun} up to the mass-sheet degeneracy, located roughly 0.''1 west and 0.''1 north of component B. We demonstrate that a positional offset between the centers of the source components can explain the differences between the optical and radio flux ratios.
- OSTI ID:
- 21560496
- Journal Information:
- Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 728, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/728/1/L18; ISSN 2041-8205
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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