Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-11-03
Astron.J. 127 (2004) 1860
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
23 pages; to appear in The Astronomical Journal, 2004 April. Version with full-resolution figures available at http://web.mi
Scientific paper
10.1086/382714
We present a catalog of 49 spectroscopic strong gravitational lens candidates selected from a Sloan Digital Sky Survey sample of 50996 luminous red galaxies. Potentially lensed star-forming galaxies are detected through the presence of background oxygen and hydrogen nebular emission lines in the spectra of these massive foreground galaxies. This multiline selection eliminates the ambiguity of single-line identification and provides a very promising sample of candidate galaxy-galaxy lens systems at low to intermediate redshift, with foreground redshifts ranging from 0.16 to 0.49 and background redshifts from 0.25 to 0.81. Any lenses confirmed within our sample would be important new probes of early-type galaxy mass distributions, providing complementary constraints to those obtained from currently known lensed high-redshift quasars.
Bolton Adam S.
Brinkmann John
Burles Scott
Eisenstein Daniel J.
Schlegel David James
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