Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 622, Issue 1, Pages 106-115Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/428087
Keywords
cosmology : observations; cosmology : theory; gravitational lensing; quasars : individual (SDSS J100128.61+502756.9, SDSS J120629.65+433217.6)
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
We report the discovery of two doubly imaged quasars, SDSS J100128.61+502756.9 and SDSS J120629.65+433217.6, at redshifts of 1.838 and 1.789, and with image separations of 2.'' 86 and 2.'' 90, respectively. The objects were selected as lens candidates from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Based on the identical nature of the spectra of the two quasars in each pair and the identification of the lens galaxies, we conclude that the objects are gravitational lenses. The lenses are complicated; in both systems there are several galaxies in the fields very close to the quasars, in addition to the lens galaxies themselves. The lens modeling implies that these nearby galaxies contribute significantly to the lens potentials. On larger scales, we have detected an enhancement in the galaxy density near SDSS J100128.61+502756.9. The number of lenses with image separation of similar to 3 '' in the SDSS already exceeds the prediction of simple theoretical models based on the standard Lambda-dominated cosmology and observed velocity function of galaxies.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available