Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-06-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 3 figures (1 color), accepted to ApJ. Made minor changes and fixed typos
Scientific paper
10.1086/592077
We present evidence that the optically unidentified radio source, FIRST J121839.7+295325, may be strongly lensing a background galaxy. We estimate the redshift of the assumed gravitational arc, discovered in parallel imaging with HST, from MMT-Blue Channel spectroscopy to be z_{arc}=2.48_-0.05^+0.14. We present lens models with an Einstein radius of R_E=1.3" which contains a mass of M_{dyn}=10^{12 +- 0.5} M_{sol}, where the uncertainty reflects the range of possible lens redshifts. The putative lens is not detected to J_{lim}=22.0 mag and H_{lim}=20.7 mag in our MMT-SWIRC imaging. Using the flux limits from WFPC2 and SWIRC, we estimate that the dynamical mass-to-light ratio of J121839.7+295325 is M_{dyn}/L_B >~ 10 M_sol/L_sol for A_V=1 mag, and this lower limit could be as high as 30 M_sol/L_sol for A_V=0 mag. Since the radio source is optically unidentified (V_{lim}=25.5 mag) and has a radio flux of S_{1.4 GHz}=33 mJy, it is likely a massive early-type galaxy which hosts a radio-loud AGN at 0.8
Cohen Seth H.
Keeton Charles R.
Ryan Russell E. Jr.
Veach T. J.
Windhorst Rogier A.
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