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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 699, Issue 2, Pages 1578-1583Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/699/2/1578
Keywords
galaxies: structure; gravitational lensing
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- National Science Foundation (US) [0645416, AST-0708082]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK)
- National Research Council (Canada)
- CONICYT (Chile)
- Australian Research Council (Australia)
- Ministerio da Ciencia e Tecnologia (Brazil)
- Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion Productiva (Argentina)
- NASA [NAS5-2655]
- [GN-2005B-Q-43]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [0645416] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We present the first resolved mid-infrared (IR) (11 mu m) observations of the four-image quasar lens H1413+117 using the Michelle camera on Gemini North. All previous observations (optical, near-IR, and radio) of this lens show a flux anomaly, where the image flux ratios cannot be explained by a simple, central lens galaxy. We attempt to reproduce the mid-IR flux ratios, which are insensitive to extinction and microlensing, by modeling the main lens as a singular isothermal ellipsoid. This model fails to reproduce the flux ratios. However, we can explain the flux ratios simply by adding to the model a nearby galaxy detected in the H band by the Hubble Space Telescope. This perturbing galaxy lies 4 ''.0 from the main lens and it has a critical radius of 0 ''.63 +/- 0 ''.02 which is similar to that of the main lens, as expected from their similar H-band fluxes. More remarkably, this galaxy is not required to obtain a good fit to the system astrometry, so this represents the first clear detection of an object through its effect on the image fluxes of a gravitational lens. This is a parallel to the detections of visible satellites from astrometric anomalies, and provides a proof of the concept of searching for substructure in galaxies using anomalous flux ratios.
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