High-resolution imaging of the double QSO 2345 + 007 - Evidence for subcomponents

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Astronomical Photography, Gravitational Lenses, Image Processing, Quasars, Image Reconstruction, Image Resolution, Stellar Magnitude, Ultraviolet Photography

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The authors have observed, at the CFH telescope with the time-resolved imaging mode of the ESA Photon Counting Detector, the field of the double QSO 2345+007 in the UV band. Integrated images have a 0arcsec.55 - 0arcsec.60 resolution. Improvement in resolution has been achieved by applying image restoration techniques. The results show that component B is made of two subcomponents of roughly equal intensity, 0arcsec.36 apart. The line of their centers makes a slight (≡12°) angle with the AB direction. At least one of the two subcomponents, B2, is elongated in a direction perpendicular to the AB direction. This result gives new support for the gravitational lens hypothesis: A and the two subcomponents of B, B1 and B2, are different images of the same source quasar, with B2 being better interpreted as an unresolved multiple component image than a really extended object.

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