Two New Large Separation Gravitational Lenses from SDSS

Details Two New Large Separation Gravitational Lenses from SDSS Two New Large Separation Gravitational Lenses from SDSS

2008-06-25

arxiv.org/abs/0806.4188v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

MNRAS, in press. Revised version contains much more detail on the search algorithm. The CASSOWARY website gives further candid

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14075.x

We present discovery images, together with follow-up imaging and spectroscopy, of two large separation gravitational lenses found by our survey for wide arcs (the CASSOWARY). The survey exploits the multicolor photometry of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to find multiple blue components around red galaxies. CASSOWARY~2 (or "the Cheshire Cat") is composed of two massive early-type galaxies at z = 0.426 and 0.432 respectively lensing two background sources, the first a star-forming galaxy at z = 0.97 and the second a high redshift galaxy (z> 1.4). There are at least three images of the former source and probably four or more of the latter, arranged in two giant arcs. The mass enclosed within the larger arc of radius 11 arcsecs is about 33 x 10^{12} solar masses. CASSOWARY~3 comprises an arc of three bright images of a z = 0.725 source, lensed by a foreground elliptical at z = 0.274. The radius of the arc is about 4 arcsecs and the enclosed mass is 2.5 x 10^{12} solar masses. Together with earlier discoveries like the Cosmic Horseshoe and the 8 O'Clock Arc, these new systems, with separations intermediate between the arcsecond separation lenses of typical strong galaxy lensing and the larger separation cluster lenses, probe the very high end of the galaxy mass function.

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