A New Gravitational Lens Candidate with Large Image Separation in the SDSS DR5 Data
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The discovery of a gravitational lens candidate is reported. The quasars SDSS J111611.73+411821.5 and SDSS J111610.68+411814.4 are recognized as two images of the same object, being strongly lensed by the closer galaxy SDSS J111611.03+411820.9. The source is located at a redshift of z ∼ 3, while the redshift of the lens galaxy is z ∼ 0.25. The separation of the images is large, ∼ 13 arcsec. Commonly used models of the mass distribution for the lens galaxy with values of the parameters in the expected range describe the positions and fluxes of the images.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007