Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-07-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
ApJ Letters, submitted. Part of the AEGIS ApJL Special Issue. 4 Figures, 1 Table. For a version with full-resolution figures,
Scientific paper
10.1086/517930
We report on the results of a visual search for galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses over 650 arcmin^2 of HST/ACS imaging in the DEEP2-EGS field. In addition to a previously-known Einstein Cross (the "Cross," HST J141735+52264, with z_lens=0.8106 and a published z_source=3.40), we identify two new strong galaxy-galaxy lenses with multiple extended arcs. The first, HST J141820+52361 (the ``Dewdrop''; z_lens=0.5798, lenses two distinct extended sources into two pairs of arcs z_source=0.while), 9818 the second, HST J141833+52435 (the ``Anchor''; z_lens=0.4625), produces a single pair of arcs (source redshift not yet known). All three definite lenses are fit well by simple singular isothermal ellipsoid models including external shear. Using the three-dimensional line-of-sight (LOS) information on galaxies from the DEEP2 data, we calculate the convergence and shear contributions, assuming singular isothermal sphere halos truncated at 200 h^-1 kpc. These are also compared against three-dimensional local-density estimates. We find that even strong lenses in demonstrably underdense local environments may be considerably affected by LOS contributions, which in turn, may be underestimates of the effect of large scale structure.
Coil Alison L.
Cooper Martin C.
Davis Martin
Fassnacht Chris D.
Guhathakurta Puraga
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