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Marques-Chaves, R.; Pérez-Fournon, I.; Shu, Yiping; Martínez-Navajas, P. I.; Bolton, Adam S.; Kochanek, Christopher S.; Oguri, Masamune; Zheng, Zheng; Mao, Shude; Montero-Dorta, Antonio D.; Cornachione, Matthew A.; Brownstein, Joel R.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 834, Issue 2, article id. L18, 6 pp. (2017).
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Description
We report the discovery of a very bright (r = 20.16), highly magnified,
and yet intrinsically very luminous Lyα emitter (LAE) at z=2.82.
This system comprises four images in the observer plane with a maximum
separation of ∼ 6\prime\prime and it is lensed by a
z=0.55 massive early-type galaxy. It was initially identified in the
Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Emission-Line Lens Survey for
GALaxy-Lyα EmitteR sYstems survey, and follow-up imaging and
spectroscopic observations using the Gran Telescopio Canarias and
William Herschel Telescope confirmed the lensing nature of this system.
A lens model using a singular isothermal ellipsoid in an external shear
field reproduces the main features of the system quite well, yielding an
Einstein radius of 2.″95 ± 0.″10, and a total
magnification factor for the LAE of 8.8 ± 0.4. This LAE is one of
the brightest and most luminous galaxy–galaxy strong lenses known.
We present initial imaging and spectroscopy showing the basic physical
and morphological properties of this lensed system.
Based on observations made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and
William Herschel Telescope (WHT), in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque
de los Muchachos of the IAC, under Directors Discretionary Time (DDT
programs IDs: GTC2016-054 and DDT2016-077).
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Formation and Evolution of Galaxies: Observations in Infrared and other Wavelengths
This IAC research group carries out several extragalactic projects in different spectral ranges, using space as well as ground-based telescopes, to study the cosmological evolution of galaxies and the origin of nuclear activity in active galaxies. The group is a member of the international consortium which built the SPIRE instrument for the
Ismael
Pérez Fournon