The Interstellar Medium of Lens Galaxies

Details The Interstellar Medium of Lens Galaxies The Interstellar Medium of Lens Galaxies

1999-10-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9910065v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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4 pages, 2 figs. to appear in "Gravitational Lensing: Recent Progress and Future Goals", ASP conference series, eds. Brainerd

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We use observations from the CASTLES survey of gravitational lenses to study extinction in 23 lens galaxies with $0 < z_l < 1$. The median differential extinction between lensed images is $\Delta E(\bv) = 0.05$ mag, and the directly measured extinctions agree with the amount needed to explain the differences between the statistics of radio and (optical) quasar lens surveys. We also measure the first extinction laws outside the local universe, including an $R_V=7.2$ curve for a molecular cloud at $z_l=0.68$ and an $R_V=1.5$ curve for the dust in a redshift $z_l=0.96$ elliptical galaxy.

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