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Shu, Y.; Bolton, Adam S.; Mao, Shude; Kochanek, Christopher S.; Pérez-Fournon, I.; Oguri, Masamune; Montero-Dorta, Antonio D.; Cornachione, Matthew A.; Marques-Chaves, R.; Zheng, Zheng; Brownstein, Joel R.; Ménard, Brice
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 833, Issue 2, article id. 264, 15 pp. (2016).
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We present Hubble Space Telescope F606W-band imaging observations of 21
galaxy-Lyα emitter lens candidates in the Baryon Oscillation
Spectroscopic Survey Emission-Line Lens Survey (BELLS) for the
GALaxy-Lyα EmitteR sYstems (BELLS GALLERY) survey. Seventeen
systems are confirmed to be definite lenses with unambiguous evidence of
multiple imaging. The lenses are primarily massive early-type galaxies
(ETGs) at redshifts of approximately 0.55, while the lensed sources are
Lyα emitters (LAEs) at redshifts from two to three. Although most
of the lens systems are well fit by smooth lens models consisting of
singular isothermal ellipsoids in an external shear field, a thorough
exploration of dark substructures in the lens galaxies is required. The
Einstein radii of the BELLS GALLERY lenses are, on average, 60% larger
than those of the BELLS lenses because of the much higher source
redshifts. This will allow for a detailed investigation of the radius
evolution of the mass profile in ETGs. With the aid of the average
∼13× lensing magnification, the LAEs are frequently resolved
into individual star-forming knots with a wide range of properties. They
have characteristic sizes from less than 100 pc to several kiloparsecs,
rest-frame far-UV apparent AB magnitudes from 29.6 to 24.2, and typical
projected separations of 500 pc to 2 kpc.
Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope,
obtained from the Data Archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute,
which is operated by AURA, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555. These
observations are associated with program #14189.