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A SPECTROSCOPICALLY CONFIRMED DOUBLE SOURCE PLANE LENS SYSTEM IN THE HYPER SUPRIME-CAM SUBARU STRATEGIC PROGRAM

We report the serendipitous discovery of HSC J142449-005322, a double source plane lens system in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program. We dub the system Eye of Horus. The lens galaxy is a very massive early-type galaxy with stellar mass of similar to 7 x 10(11) M-circle dot located at z(L) = 0.795. The system exhibits two arcs/rings with clearly different colors, including several knots. We have performed spectroscopic follow-up observations of the system with FIRE on Magellan. The outer ring is confirmed at z(S2) = 1.988 with multiple emission lines, while the inner arc and counterimage is confirmed at z(S1) = 1.302. This makes it the first double source plane system with spectroscopic redshifts of both sources. Interestingly, redshifts of two of the knots embedded in the outer ring are found to be offset by Delta z = 0.002 from the other knots, suggesting that the outer ring consists of at least two distinct components in the source plane. We perform lens modeling with two independent codes and successfully reproduce the main features of the system. However, two of the lensed sources separated by similar to 0.7 arcsec cannot be reproduced by a smooth potential, and the addition of substructure to the lens potential is required to reproduce them. Higher-resolution imaging of the system will help decipher the origin of this lensing feature and potentially detect the substructure.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/621400
Date25 July 2016
CreatorsTanaka, Masayuki, Wong, Kenneth C., More, Anupreeta, Dezuka, Arsha, Egami, Eiichi, Oguri, Masamune, Suyu, Sherry H., Sonnenfeld, Alessandro, Higuchi, Ryo, Komiyama, Yutaka, Miyazaki, Satoshi, Onoue, Masafusa, Oyamada, Shuri, Utsumi, Yousuke
ContributorsUniv Arizona, Steward Observ
PublisherIOP PUBLISHING LTD
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle
Rights© 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Relationhttp://stacks.iop.org/2041-8205/826/i=2/a=L19?key=crossref.755dbe590167bfccbf26f77df63fbf6c

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