Wednesday, October 26, 2011

1110.5514 (F. Courbin et al.)

Three QSOs acting as strong gravitational lenses    [PDF]

F. Courbin, C. Faure, S. G. Djorgovski, F. Rerat, M. Tewes, G. Meylan, D. Stern, A. Mahabal, T. Boroson, R. Dheeraj, D. Sluse
We report the discovery of three new cases of QSOs acting as strong gravitational lenses on background emission line galaxies: SDSS J0827+5224 (zQSO = 0.293, zs = 0.412), SDSS J0919+2720 (zQSO = 0.209, zs = 0.558), SDSS J1005+4016 (zQSO = 0.230, zs = 0.441). The selection was carried out using a sample of 22,298 SDSS spectra displaying at least four emission lines at a redshift beyond that of the foreground QSO. The lensing nature is confirmed from Keck imaging and spectroscopy, as well as from HST/WFC3 imaging in the F475W and F814W filters. Two of the QSOs have face-on spiral host galaxies and the third is a QSO+galaxy pair. The velocity dispersion of the host galaxies, inferred from simple lens modeling, is between \sigma_v = 210 and 285 km/s, making these host galaxies comparable in mass with the SLACS sample of early-type strong lenses.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5514

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