Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2006
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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #21.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, V
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We report on modelling of the recently discovered brightest strongly lensed Lyman Break Galaxy (LBG), the so called "8 o'clock arc". This galaxy is at redshift 2.73 and is lensed by a luminous red galaxy (LRG, z=0.38) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR4 imaging data. We observe four images, three in the arc plus a counterimage. The three lensed images in the arc subtend an angle of 160 degrees around the LRG and extend over more than 9.6 arcsec in length. For the modelling we are using information from all four images extracted from SPICAM images taken on the 3.5m telescope at APO. Using the GRAVLENS package with an SIE profile we obtain a velocity dispersion of 391 km/sec for the LRG and a total magnification of about 10. We will also report on results obtained using more sophisticated models.
Allam Sahar S.
Annis James
Buckley-Geer Elizabeth J.
Diehl Thomas H.
Frieman Joshua A.
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