Are Two z~6 Quasars Gravitationally Lensed ?

Details Are Two z~6 Quasars Gravitationally Lensed ? Are Two z~6 Quasars Gravitationally Lensed ?

2003-06-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306450v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for PASJ

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Several high-z (z > 5.7) quasars have been found in the course of Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The presence of such very high-z quasars is expected to give constraints on early structure formation. On one hand, it is suggested that these most luminous objects at high redshift are biased toward the highly magnified objects by gravitational lensing. To clarify the effect of gravitational lensing on the high-z quasars, we began the imaging survey of intervening lensing galaxies. Indeed our previous optical image showed that SDSSp J104433.04+012502.2 at z=5.74 is gravitationally magnified by a factor 2. In this paper, we report our new optical imaging of other two high-z quasars, SDSSp J103027.10+052455.0 at z=6.28 and SDSSp J130608.26+035626.3 at z=5.99. Since we find neither intervening galaxy nor counter image with i^{\prime} < 25.4-25.8 around each quasar, we conclude that they are not strongly magnified regardless that a lens galaxy is dusty.

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