SIMBAD references

2019MNRAS.486.4987R - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 486, 4987-5007 (2019/July-2)

A search for gravitationally lensed quasars and quasar pairs in Pan-STARRS1: spectroscopy and sources of shear in the diamond 2M1134-2103.

RUSU C.E., BERGHEA C.T., FASSNACHT C.D., MORE A., SEMAN E., NELSON G.J. and CHEN G.C.-F.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present results of a systematic search for gravitationally lensed quasars in Pan-STARRS1. Our final sample of candidates comprises of 91 systems, not including 25 rediscovered lensed quasars and quasar pairs. In the absence of spectroscopy to verify the lensing nature of the candidates, the main sources of contaminants are likely to be quasar pairs, which we consider to be a byproduct of our work, and a smaller number of quasar + star associations. Among the independently discovered quads is 2M1134-2103, for which we obtained spectroscopy for the first time, finding a redshift of 2.77 for the quasar. There is evidence for microlensing in at least one image. We perform detailed mass modelling of this system using archival imaging data, and find that the unusually large shear responsible for the diamond-like configuration can be attributed mainly to a faint companion ∼4 arcsec away, and to a galaxy group/cluster ∼30 arcsec away. We also set limits of z ∼ 0.5-1.5 on the redshift of the lensing galaxy, based on its brightness, the image separation of the lensed images, and an analysis of the observed photometric flux ratios.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): gravitational lensing: strong - quasars: individual: 2M1134-2103

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/MNRAS/486/4987): table1.dat tableb1.dat>

Nomenclature: Tables 1+B1: [RBF2019b] PS1 JHHMMSS+DDMMSS N=91+221.

Status at CDS : Examining the need for a new acronym. // All or part of tables of objects will not be ingested in SIMBAD.

Simbad objects: 31

goto Full paper

goto View the references in ADS

To bookmark this query, right click on this link: simbad:2019MNRAS.486.4987R and select 'bookmark this link' or equivalent in the popup menu