HST Observations and Models of The Gravitational Lens System MG 0414+0534

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1996-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9612182v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

27 pages, 8 .ps figs, AAS Latex, AJ, in press, Feb 1997

Scientific paper

10.1086/118274

Quadruple gravitational lens systems offer the possibility of measuring time delays for image pairs, microlensing effects, and extinction in distant galaxies. Observations of these systems may be used to obtain estimates of H_o and to study the various mass components of lens galaxies at high redshifts. With HST, we have observed the reddest known gravitational lens system, MG 0414+0534. We used WFPC2/PC1 to obtain deep, high-resolution images with two filters, F675W and F814W. We present a detailed analysis of all of the components, as well as macrolens models. Our main results are: (1) confirmation that MG 0414+0534 is inescapably a gravitational lens system; (2) discovery of a blue arc connecting the 3 brightest images of the QSO central core; (3) accurate positions and apparent brightnesses for all 4 known images of the QSO central core and for the lens galaxy G; (4) a good representation of the brightness distribution of G by elliptical isophotes with a De Vaucouleurs profile, characteristic of an elliptical galaxy; (5) models that consist of simple elliptical potentials and account qualitatively, not quantitatively, for the HST image positions, arc morphology and radio flux ratios for the images of the QSO central core; (6) a possible new test to distinguish between reddening in the host galaxy of the QSO and in the lens galaxy, based on future accurate measurements of spatial variations in the color of the arc; and (7) the suggestion that microlensing is a plausible cause for the differences between the radio and optical flux ratios for the brightest images, A1 and A2. Further observations and measurements such as of the redshift of the lens galaxy, can be used fruitfully to study microlensing for this system.

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