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2016ApJ...827...51N - Astrophys. J., 827, 51-51 (2016/August-2)

Observation and confirmation of six strong-lensing systems in the dark energy survey science verification data.

NORD B., BUCKLEY-GEER E., LIN H., DIEHL H.T., HELSBY J., KUROPATKIN N., AMARA A., COLLETT T., ALLAM S., CAMINHA G.B., DE BOM C., DESAI S., DUMET-MONTOYA H., PEREIRA M.E.S., FINLEY D.A., FLAUGHER B., FURLANETTO C., GAITSCH H., GILL M., MERRITT K.W., MORE A., TUCKER D., SARO A., RYKOFF E.S., ROZO E., BIRRER S., ABDALLA F.B., AGNELLO A., AUGER M., BRUNNER R.J., CARRASCO KIND M., CASTANDER F.J., CUNHA C.E., DA COSTA L.N., FOLEY R.J., GERDES D.W., GLAZEBROOK K., GSCHWEND J., HARTLEY W., KESSLER R., LAGATTUTA D., LEWIS G., MAIA M.A.G., MAKLER M., MENANTEAU F., NIERNBERG A., SCOLNIC D., VIEIRA J.D., GRAMILLANO R., ABBOTT T.M.C., BANERJI M., BENOIT-LEVY A., BROOKS D., BURKE D.L., CAPOZZI D., CARNERO ROSELL A., CARRETERO J., D'ANDREA C.B., DIETRICH J.P., DOEL P., EVRARD A.E., FRIEMAN J., GAZTANAGA E., GRUEN D., HONSCHEID K., JAMES D.J., KUEHN K., LI T.S., LIMA M., MARSHALL J.L., MARTINI P., MELCHIOR P., MIQUEL R., NEILSEN E., NICHOL R.C., OGANDO R., PLAZAS A.A., ROMER A.K., SAKO M., SANCHEZ E., SCARPINE V., SCHUBNELL M., SEVILLA-NOARBE I., SMITH R.C., SOARES-SANTOS M., SOBREIRA F., SUCHYTA E., SWANSON M.E.C., TARLE G., THALER J., WALKER A.R., WESTER W. and ZHANG Y.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the observation and confirmation of the first group- and cluster-scale strong gravitational lensing systems found in Dark Energy Survey data. Through visual inspection of data from the Science Verification season, we identified 53 candidate systems. We then obtained spectroscopic follow-up of 21 candidates using the Gemini Multi-object Spectrograph at the Gemini South telescope and the Inamori-Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph at the Magellan/Baade telescope. With this follow-up, we confirmed six candidates as gravitational lenses: three of the systems are newly discovered, and the remaining three were previously known. Of the 21 observed candidates, the remaining 15 either were not detected in spectroscopic observations, were observed and did not exhibit continuum emission (or spectral features), or were ruled out as lensing systems. The confirmed sample consists of one group-scale and five galaxy-cluster-scale lenses. The lensed sources range in redshift z ∼ 0.80-3.2 and in i-band surface brightness i_SB ∼ 23-25 mag arcsec^-2 (2'' aperture). For each of the six systems, we estimate the Einstein radius θ_E and the enclosed mass M_enc, which have ranges θ_E ∼ 5''-9'' and M_enc ∼ 8 x 10^12 to 6 x 10^13 M_☉, respectively.

Abstract Copyright: © 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): cosmology: observations - galaxies: clusters: general - galaxies: distances and redshifts - gravitational lensing: strong - methods: observational - techniques: spectroscopic - techniques: spectroscopic

Nomenclature: Fig. 1, Table 1: [NBL2016] DES JHHMM+DDMM N=6, [NBL2016] DES JHHMM+DDMM lens N=6, [NBL2016] DES JHHMM+DDMM AN N=12.

Status at CDS : Acronym for new objects described in the dictionary of nomenclature and being created in SIMBAD.

CDS comments: BCS J2352-5452 is SCSO J235138-545253 in SIMBAD.

Simbad objects: 36

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