OBSERVATION AND CONFIRMATION OF SIX STRONG-LENSING SYSTEMS IN THE DARK ENERGY SURVEY SCIENCE VERIFICATION DATA
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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.
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.
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Univ Arizona, Dept PhysIssue Date
2016-08-05Keywords
cosmology: observationsgalaxies: clusters: general
galaxies: distances and redshifts
gravitational lensing: strong
methods: observational
techniques: spectroscopic
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OBSERVATION AND CONFIRMATION OF SIX STRONG-LENSING SYSTEMS IN THE DARK ENERGY SURVEY SCIENCE VERIFICATION DATA 2016, 827 (1):51 The Astrophysical JournalJournal
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This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
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.ISSN
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U.S. Department of Energy; U.S. National Science Foundation; Ministry of Science and Education of Spain; Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom; Higher Education Funding Council for England; National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago; Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University; Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas AM University; Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos; Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientfico e Tecnologico; Ministerio da Ciencia e Tecnologia; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; National Science Foundation [AST-1138766]; MINECO [AYA2012-39559, ESP2013-48274, FPA2013-47986]; Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa [SEV-2012-0234]; ERDF funds from the European Union; Argonne National Laboratory; University of California at Santa Cruz; University of Cambridge; Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas; Medioambientales y Tecnologicas-Madrid; University of Chicago; University College London; DES-Brazil Consortium; Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; University of Edinburgh; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai (IEEC/CSIC); Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat and the associated Excellence Cluster Universe; University of Michigan; National Optical Astronomy Observatory; University of Nottingham; Ohio State University; University of Pennsylvania; University of Portsmouth; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Stanford University; University of Sussex; Texas AM University; CAPES [12203-1]; CNPq; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; United States Department of Energy [DE-AC02-07CH11359]Additional Links
http://stacks.iop.org/0004-637X/827/i=1/a=51?key=crossref.5c0289e02dabf48fd61f15ac845e4c72ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/51