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DES meets Gaia: discovery of strongly lensed quasars from a multiplet search
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We report the discovery, spectroscopic confirmation, and first lens models of the first, strongly lensed quasars from a combined search in WISE and Gaia-DR1 over the DES footprint. Their Einstein radii span a range between ≈2.0 arcsec and ≈0.4 arcsec. Two of these (WGD2038-4008, RA = 20:38:02.65, Dec. = −40:08:14.64; WGD2021-4115, RA = 20:21:39.45, Dec. = −41:15:57.11) also have confirmed deflector redshifts. The four-image lens WGD2038-4008, with source and deflector redshifts s = 0.777 ± 0.001 and zl = 0.230 ± 0.002, respectively, has a deflector with radius R_(eff) ≈ 3.4 arcsec, stellar mass log(M⋆/M⊙) = 11.64^(+0.20)_(−0.43) , and extended isophotal shape variation. Simple lens models yield Einstein radii RE = (1.30 ± 0.04) arcsec, axis ratio q = 0.75 ± 0.1 (compatible with that of the starlight) and considerable shear-ellipticity degeneracies. The two-image lens WGD2021-4115 has z_s = 1.390 ± 0.001 and z_l = 0.335 ± 0.002, and Einstein radius R_E = (1.1 ± 0.1) arcsec, but higher-resolution imaging is needed to accurately separate the deflector and faint quasar image. Analogous lens model degeneracies hold for the other six lenses (J0146-1133, J0150-4041, J0235-2433, J0245-0556, J0259-2338, and J0508-2748) shown in this paper.
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© 2018 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/about_us/legal/notices). Accepted 2018 May 21. Received 2018 May 20; in original form 2017 October 21. Published: 04 June 2018. This paper was written as part of the STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) collaboration, a broad external collaboration of the Dark Energy Survey, http://strides.astro.ucla.edu TT acknowledges support from NSF through grant AST-1450141, and from the Packard Foundation through a Packard Research Fellowship. CDF acknowledges support from the U.S. National Science Foundation through grant number AST-1312329. Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the DOE and NSF (USA), MISE (Spain), STFC (UK), HEFCE (UK), NCSA (UIUC), KICP (U. Chicago), CCAPP (Ohio State), MIFPA (Texas A&M), CNPQ, FAPERJ, FINEP (Brazil), MINECO (Spain), DFG (Germany), and the Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey. The Collaborating Institutions are Argonne Lab, UC Santa Cruz, University of Cambridge, CIEMAT-Madrid, University of Chicago, University College London, DES-Brazil Consortium, University of Edinburgh, ETH Zürich, Fermilab, University of Illinois, ICE (IEEC-CSIC), IFAE Barcelona, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, LMU München and the associated Excellence Cluster Universe, University of Michigan, NOAO, University of Nottingham, Ohio State University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Portsmouth, SLAC National Lab, Stanford University, University of Sussex, and Texas A&M University. The DES Data Management System is supported by the NSF under grant number AST-1138766. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MINECO under grants AYA2012-39559, ESP2013-48274, FPA2013-47986, and Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa SEV-2012-0234. Research leading to these results has received funding from the ERC under the EU's 7th Framework Programme including grants ERC 240672, 291329, and 306478. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. This work is based in part on observations obtained at the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope, which is a joint project of the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, e Inovação (MCTI) da República Federativa do Brasil, the U.S. National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), and Michigan State University (MSU). AA wishes to thank the ITC-Harvard for hospitality in 2017 February and June, when most of the work reported here was made.Attached Files
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Funding
- NSF
- AST-1450141
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- NSF
- AST-1312329
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- University of Chicago
- Ohio State University
- Texas A&M University
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
- Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
- Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Argonne National Laboratory
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- University of Cambridge
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
- University College London
- DES-Brazil Consortium
- University of Edinburgh
- ETH Zurich
- Fermilab
- University of Illinois
- Institut de Ciències de l'Espai
- Institut de Física d'Altes Energies
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
- Excellence Cluster Universe
- University of Michigan
- National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)
- University of Nottingham
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Portsmouth
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- Stanford University
- University of Sussex
- NSF
- AST-1138766
- Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO)
- AYA2012-39559
- Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO)
- ESP2013-48274
- Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO)
- FPA2013-47986
- Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa
- SEV-2012-0234
- European Research Council (ERC)
- 240672
- European Research Council (ERC)
- 291329
- European Research Council (ERC)
- 306478
- NASA/JPL/Caltech
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