Improving efficiency in radio surveys for gravitational lenses

Details Improving efficiency in radio surveys for gravitational lenses Improving efficiency in radio surveys for gravitational lenses

2006-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609818v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.374:168-175,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted by MNRAS. 9 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11126.x

Many lens surveys have hitherto used observations of large samples of background sources to select the small minority which are multiply imaged by lensing galaxies along the line of sight. Recently surveys such as SLACS and OLS have improved the efficiency of surveys by pre-selecting double-redshift systems from SDSS. We explore other ways to improve survey efficiency by optimum use of astrometric and morphological information in existing large-scale optical and radio surveys. The method exploits the small position differences between FIRST radio positions of lensed images and the SDSS lens galaxy positions, together with the marginal resolution of some larger gravitational lens systems by the FIRST beam. We present results of a small pilot study with the VLA and MERLIN, and discuss the desirable criteria for future surveys.

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