Discovery of Two Gravitationally Lensed Quasars with Image Separations of 3 Arcseconds from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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dc.creatorOguri, Masamune
dc.creatorInada, Naohisa
dc.creatorHennawi, Joseph F.
dc.creatorRichards, Gordon T.
dc.creatorJohnston, David E.
dc.creatorFrieman, Joshua A.
dc.creatorPindor, Bartosz
dc.creatorStrauss, Michael A.
dc.creatorBrunner, Robert J.
dc.creatorBecker, Robert H.
dc.creatorCastander, Francisco J.
dc.creatorGregg, Michael D.
dc.creatorHall, Patrick B.
dc.creatorRix, Hans-Walter
dc.creatorSchneider, Donald P.
dc.creatorBahcall, Neta A.
dc.creatorBrinkmann, Jonathan
dc.creatorYork, Donald G.
dc.date2004-11-10
dc.date2004-12-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:29:29Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:29:29Z
dc.descriptionWe 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 ~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.
dc.description24 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411250
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411250
dc.identifierAstrophys.J.622:106-115,2005
dc.identifierdoi:10.1086/428087
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/196727
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleDiscovery of Two Gravitationally Lensed Quasars with Image Separations of 3 Arcseconds from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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