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2010MNRAS.402.2335P - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 402, 2335-2343 (2010/March-2)

CASSOWARY20: a wide separation EINSTEIN cross identified with the X-shooter spectrograph.

PETTINI M., CHRISTENSEN L., D'ODORICO S., BELOKUROV V., EVANS N.W., HEWETT P.C., KOPOSOV S., MASON E. and VERNET J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We have used spectra obtained with X-shooter, the triple arm optical-infrared spectrograph recently commissioned on the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory, to confirm the gravitational lens nature of the CAmbridge Sloan Survey Of Wide ARcs in the skY (CASSOWARY) candidate CSWA20. This system consists of a luminous red galaxy at redshift zabs= 0.741, with a very high velocity dispersion, σlens≃ 500km/s, which lenses a blue star-forming galaxy at zem= 1.433 into four images with a mean separation of ∼6arcsec. The source shares many of its properties with those of UV-selected galaxies at z = 2-3: it is forming stars at a rate SFR ≃ 25M☉/yr, has a metallicity of ∼1/4 solar and shows nebular emission from two components separated by 0.4arcsec (in the image plane), possibly indicating a merger. It appears that foreground interstellar material within the galaxy has been evacuated from the sightline along which we observe the starburst, giving an unextinguished view of its stars and HII regions. CSWA20, with its massive lensing galaxy producing a high magnification of an intrinsically luminous background galaxy, is a promising target for future studies at a variety of wavelengths.

Abstract Copyright: © 2010 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2010 RAS

Journal keyword(s): gravitational lensing - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: structure

Nomenclature: CSWA NN (No. 20) added. Fig. 1, Table 1: [PCD2010] Lens N=1, [PCD2010] iN (Nos i1-i4).

Simbad objects: 9

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