The Sloan Bright Arcs Survey : Six Strongly Lensed Galaxies at z=0.4-1.4

Simple item page
dc.creatorKubo, Jeffrey M.
dc.creatorAllam, Sahar S.
dc.creatorAnnis, James
dc.creatorBuckley-Geer, Elizabeth J.
dc.creatorDiehl, H. Thomas
dc.creatorKubik, Donna
dc.creatorLin, Huan
dc.creatorTucker, Douglas
dc.date2008-12-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T13:04:49Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T13:04:49Z
dc.descriptionWe present new results of our program to systematically search for strongly lensed galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data. In this study six strong lens systems are presented which we have confirmed with follow-up spectroscopy and imaging using the 3.5m telescope at the Apache Point Observatory. Preliminary mass models indicate that the lenses are group-scale systems with velocity dispersions ranging from 466-878 km s^{-1} at z=0.17-0.45 which are strongly lensing source galaxies at z=0.4-1.4. Galaxy groups are a relatively new mass scale just beginning to be probed with strong lensing. Our sample of lenses roughly doubles the confirmed number of group-scale lenses in the SDSS and complements ongoing strong lens searches in other imaging surveys such as the CFHTLS (Cabanac et al 2007). As our arcs were discovered in the SDSS imaging data they are all bright ($r\lesssim22$), making them ideally suited for detailed follow-up studies.
dc.description13 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJL, the Sloan Bright Arcs page is located here: http://home.fnal.gov/~kubo/brightarcs.html
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0812.3934
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0812.3934
dc.identifierAstrophys.J.696:L61-L65,2009
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0004-637X/696/1/L61
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/227299
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleThe Sloan Bright Arcs Survey : Six Strongly Lensed Galaxies at z=0.4-1.4
dc.typetext

Files

Collections

arXiv