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2009ApJ...691..531C - Astrophys. J., 691, 531-536 (2009/January-3)

Gauging the dark matter fraction in an L*S0 galaxy at z = 0.47 through gravitational lensing from deep Hubble space Telescope/Advanced camera for surveys imaging.

COVONE G., PAOLILLO M., NAPOLITANO N.R., CAPACCIOLI M., LONGO G., KNEIB J.-P., JULLO E., RICHARD J., KHOVANSKAYA O., SAZHIN M., GROGIN N.A. and SCHREIER E.

Abstract (from CDS):

We analyze a new gravitational lens OAC-GL J1223-1239, serendipitously found in a deep I814-band image of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The lens is an L*, edge-on S0 galaxy at zl= 0.4656. The gravitational arc has a radius of 0".42 ≃ 1.74 h.–1 kpc. We have determined the total mass and the dark matter (DM) fraction within the Einstein radius RE as a function of the lensed source redshift, which is presently unknown. For zs∼ 1.3, which is in the middle of the redshift range plausible for the source according to some external constraints, we find the central velocity dispersion to be ∼180 km/s. With this value, close to that obtained by means of the Faber-Jackson relation at the lens redshift, we compute a 30% DM fraction within RE(given the uncertainty in the source redshift, the allowed range for the DM fraction is 25%-35% in our lensing model). When compared with the galaxies in the local universe, the lensing galaxy OAC-GL J1223-1239 seems to fall in the transition regime between massive, DM-dominated galaxies and lower-mass, DM-deficient systems.

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Journal keyword(s): dark matter - galaxies: bulges - galaxies: structure - gravitational lensing

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