TY - JOUR
T1 - SDSS J024634.11-082536.2
T2 - A new gravitationally lensed quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
AU - Inada, Naohisa
AU - Burles, Scott
AU - Gregg, Michael D.
AU - Becker, Robert H.
AU - Schechter, Paul L.
AU - Eisenstein, Daniel J.
AU - Oguri, Masamune
AU - Castander, Francisco J.
AU - Hall, Patrick B.
AU - Johnston, David E.
AU - Pindor, Bartosz
AU - Richards, Gordon T.
AU - Schneider, Donald P.
AU - White, Richard L.
AU - Brinkmann, J.
AU - Szalay, Alexander S.
AU - York, Donald G.
PY - 2005/11
Y1 - 2005/11
N2 - We report the discovery of a new two-image gravitationally lensed quasar, SDSS J024634.11-082536.2 (SDSS J0246-0825). This object was selected as a lensed quasar candidate from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) by the same algorithm that was used to discover other SDSS lensed quasars (e.g., SDSS J0924+0219). Multicolor imaging with the Magellan Consortium's Walter Baade 6.5 m telescope and spectroscopic observations using the W. M. Keck Observatory's Keck II telescope confirm that SDSS J0246-0825 consists of two lensed images (Δθ = 1″.04) of a source quasar at z = 1.68. Imaging observations with the Keck I telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope reveal an extended object between the two quasar components, which is likely to be a lensing galaxy of this system. From the absorption lines in the spectra of the quasar components and the apparent magnitude of the galaxy, combined with the expected absolute magnitude from the Faber-Jackson relation, we estimate the redshift of the lensing galaxy to be z = 0.724. A highly distorted ring is visible in the Hubble Space Telescope images, which is likely to be the lensed host galaxy of the source quasar. Simple mass modeling predicts the possibility that there is a small (faint) lensing object near the primary lensing galaxy.
AB - We report the discovery of a new two-image gravitationally lensed quasar, SDSS J024634.11-082536.2 (SDSS J0246-0825). This object was selected as a lensed quasar candidate from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) by the same algorithm that was used to discover other SDSS lensed quasars (e.g., SDSS J0924+0219). Multicolor imaging with the Magellan Consortium's Walter Baade 6.5 m telescope and spectroscopic observations using the W. M. Keck Observatory's Keck II telescope confirm that SDSS J0246-0825 consists of two lensed images (Δθ = 1″.04) of a source quasar at z = 1.68. Imaging observations with the Keck I telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope reveal an extended object between the two quasar components, which is likely to be a lensing galaxy of this system. From the absorption lines in the spectra of the quasar components and the apparent magnitude of the galaxy, combined with the expected absolute magnitude from the Faber-Jackson relation, we estimate the redshift of the lensing galaxy to be z = 0.724. A highly distorted ring is visible in the Hubble Space Telescope images, which is likely to be the lensed host galaxy of the source quasar. Simple mass modeling predicts the possibility that there is a small (faint) lensing object near the primary lensing galaxy.
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U2 - 10.1086/432930
DO - 10.1086/432930
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:28944447753
VL - 130
SP - 1967
EP - 1976
JO - Astronomical Journal
JF - Astronomical Journal
SN - 0004-6256
IS - 5
ER -