Computer Science
Scientific paper
Mar 1987
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987natur.326..268f&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 326, Issue 6110, pp. 268-269 (1987).
Computer Science
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Scientific paper
The radiogalaxy 3C324 has recently raised considerable interest as one of the most distant (redshift z = 1.206) and luminous known galaxies. Here we report new observations of this object at Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope which confirm our previous predictions of the presence of an intervening gravitational lens. First, a multiple structure is revealed by our charge-coupled device (CCD) broadband imagery. Second, following our previous identification in the 3C324 spectrum of an additional line system at z=0.84, subsequent CCD observation through interferential filters were planned. In a wavelength range corresponding to an emission line at z=0.84 only the central component is detected, while only outer components are seen in a range corresponding to a line redshifted by z=1.206. These observations are interpreted as the first example of gravitational multiple imaging of a giant radiogalaxy by a foregound object. So galaxy 3C324 seems to be a gravitational mirage-though further spectroscopic observations will be needed to establish whether the two images have similar spectra.
Hammer Francçois
Le Fèvre Oliver
Mathez Guy
Nottale Laurent
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