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Bussmann, Robert; Riechers, Dominik; Wardlow, Julie; Fu, Hai; Cooray, Asantha; Perez-Fournon, I.; Calanog, Jae; Oliver, Seb; Bock, Jamie
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NOAO Proposal ID #2014B-0122
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8
2014
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Description
We propose to complete our program of optical imaging of a sample of
candidate strong-lensing galaxies discovered in the Herschel
Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES) that was started in
GS-2013B-Q-77 ( 80% complete). All of the targets in this proposal have
exquisite, high-S/N and high-spatial resolution sub-mm imaging from ALMA
that resolves the background source, and many of them have HST/F110W
snapshot imaging that pinpoints the position of galaxies along the line
of sight that act as gravitational lenses. The ALMA data will permit
lens models that measure the mass of the foreground lens and the
intrinsic luminosity and size of the background source. We propose to
obtain deep (r=24 for a 5-sigma point-source) multi-band (ugriz)
wide-field imaging of 7 targets that currently lack optical imaging in
one or more optical bands. These data will identify the true optical
counterparts to the ALMA sources, measuring their photometric redshifts,
stellar masses, star-formation histories.