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OBSERVATION AND CONFIRMATION OF SIX STRONG-LENSING SYSTEMS IN THE DARK ENERGY SURVEY SCIENCE VERIFICATION DATA

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 similar to 0.80-3.2 and in i-band surface brightness i(SB) similar to 23-25 mag arcsec(-2) (2 '' aperture). For each of the six systems, we estimate the Einstein radius theta(E) and the enclosed mass M-enc, which have ranges theta(E) similar to 5 ''-9 '' and M-enc similar to 8 x 10(12) to 6 x 10(13)M(circle dot), respectively.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/621386
Date05 August 2016
CreatorsNord, 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., Dúmet-Montoya, H., da S. Pereira, M. Elidaiana, 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., Kind, M. Carrasco, 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-Lévy, A., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Capozzi, D., Rosell, A. Carnero, 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., Zhang, Y.
ContributorsUniv Arizona, Dept Phys
PublisherIOP PUBLISHING LTD
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle
Rights© 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Relationhttp://stacks.iop.org/0004-637X/827/i=1/a=51?key=crossref.5c0289e02dabf48fd61f15ac845e4c72

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