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Bussmann, R. S.; Pérez-Fournon, I.; Amber, S.; Calanog, J.; Gurwell, M. A.; Dannerbauer, H.; De Bernardis, F.; Fu, Hai; Harris, A. I.; Krips, M.; Lapi, A.; Maiolino, R.; Omont, A.; Riechers, D.; Wardlow, J.; Baker, A. J.; Birkinshaw, M.; Bock, J.; Bourne, N.; Clements, D. L.; Cooray, A.; De Zotti, G.; Dunne, L.; Dye, S.; Eales, S.; Farrah, D.; Gavazzi, R.; González Nuevo, J.; Hopwood, R.; Ibar, E.; Ivison, R. J.; Laporte, N.; Maddox, S.; Martínez-Navajas, P.; Michalowski, M.; Negrello, M.; Oliver, S. J.; Roseboom, I. G.; Scott, Douglas; Serjeant, S.; Smith, A. J.; Smith, Matthew; Streblyanska, A.; Valiante, E.; van der Werf, P.; Verma, A.; Vieira, J. D.; Wang, L.; Wilner, D.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 779, Issue 1, article id. 25, 26 pp. (2013).
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Strong gravitational lenses are now being routinely discovered in
wide-field surveys at (sub-)millimeter wavelengths. We present
Submillimeter Array (SMA) high-spatial resolution imaging and
Gemini-South and Multiple Mirror Telescope optical spectroscopy of
strong lens candidates discovered in the two widest extragalactic
surveys conducted by the Herschel Space Observatory: the
Herschel-Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) and the
Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES). From a sample of 30
Herschel sources with S 500 > 100 mJy, 21 are strongly
lensed (i.e., multiply imaged), 4 are moderately lensed (i.e., singly
imaged), and the remainder require additional data to determine their
lensing status. We apply a visibility-plane lens modeling technique to
the SMA data to recover information about the masses of the lenses as
well as the intrinsic (i.e., unlensed) sizes (r half) and
far-infrared luminosities (L FIR) of the lensed submillimeter
galaxies (SMGs). The sample of lenses comprises primarily isolated
massive galaxies, but includes some groups and clusters as well. Several
of the lenses are located at z lens > 0.7, a redshift
regime that is inaccessible to lens searches based on Sloan Digital Sky
Survey spectroscopy. The lensed SMGs are amplified by factors that are
significantly below statistical model predictions given the 500 μm
flux densities of our sample. We speculate that this may reflect a
deficiency in our understanding of the intrinsic sizes and luminosities
of the brightest SMGs. The lensed SMGs span nearly one decade in L
FIR (median L FIR = 7.9 × 1012 L
☉) and two decades in FIR luminosity surface density
(median ΣFIR = 6.0 × 1011 L
☉ kpc–2). The strong lenses in this
sample and others identified via (sub-)mm surveys will provide a wealth
of information regarding the astrophysics of galaxy formation and
evolution over a wide range in redshift.
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