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2021MNRAS.503.1557S - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 503, 1557-1567 (2021/May-2)

High-resolution imaging follow-up of doubly imaged quasars.

SHAJIB A.J., MOLINA E., AGNELLO A., WILLIAMS P.R., BIRRER S., TREU T., FASSNACHT C.D., MORISHITA T., ABRAMSON L., SCHECHTER P.L. and WISOTZKI L.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report upon 3 years of follow-up and confirmation of doubly imaged quasar lenses through imaging campaigns from 2016 to 2018 with the Near-Infrared Camera2 (NIRC2) on the W. M. Keck Observatory. A sample of 57 quasar lens candidates are imaged in adaptive-optics-assisted or seeing-limited K'-band observations. Out of these 57 candidates, 15 are confirmed as lenses. We form a sample of 20 lenses adding in a number of previously known lenses that were imaged with NIRC2 in 2013-14 as part of a pilot study. By modelling these 20 lenses, we obtain K'-band relative photometry and astrometry of the quasar images and the lens galaxy. We also provide the lens properties and predicted time delays to aid planning of follow-up observations necessary for various astrophysical applications, e.g. spectroscopic follow-up to obtain the deflector redshifts for the newly confirmed systems. We compare the departure of the observed flux ratios from the smooth-model predictions between doubly and quadruply imaged quasar systems. We find that the departure is consistent between these two types of lenses if the modelling uncertainty is comparable.

Abstract Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): gravitational lensing: strong - catalogues - galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD

CDS comments: Table 1: wrong coordinates for SDSS J0246-0825. Table A1: wrong coordinates for J1704+1817, object not identified.

Simbad objects: 65

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