2023ApJ...954L..38N -
Astrophys. J., 954, L38 (2023/September-2)
COOL-LAMPS. Discovery of COOL J0335-1927, a Gravitationally Lensed Quasar at z = 3.27 with an Image Separation of 23.″3.
NAPIER K., GLADDERS M.D., SHARON K., DAHLE H., CLOONAN A.P., MAHLER G., ESCAPA I., GARZA J., KISARE A., MALAGON N., MORK S., NIU K., ROSENER R., SULLIVAN J.Jr, TAGLIAVIA M., TAMARGO-ARIZMENDI M., TEIXEIRA R., TSIANE K., WAGNER G., ZHANG Y. and ZHAO M.
Abstract (from CDS):
We report the discovery of COOL J0335-1927, a quasar at z = 3.27 lensed into three images with a maximum separation of 23.″3 by a galaxy cluster at z = 0.4178. To date, this is the highest redshift wide-separation lensed quasar known. In addition, COOL J0335-1927 shows several strong intervening absorbers visible in the spectra of all three quasar images with varying equivalent widths. The quasar also shows mini-broad line absorption. We construct a parametric strong gravitational lens model using ground-based imaging, constrained by the redshift and positions of the quasar images as well as the positions of three other multiply imaged background galaxies. Using our best-fit lens model, we calculate the predicted time delays between the three quasar images to be ΔtAB = ${499}_{-146}^{+141}$ (stat) and ΔtAC = $-{127}_{-17}^{+83}$ (stat) days. Folding in systematic uncertainties, the model-predicted time delays are within the ranges 240 < ΔtAB < 700 and -300 < ΔtAC < -30. We also present g-band photometry from archival Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey and Pan-STARRS imaging, and new multi-epoch observations obtained between 2022 September 18 UT and 2023 February 22 UT, which demonstrate significant variability in the quasar and will eventually enable the measurement of the time delay between the three quasar images. The currently available light curves are consistent with the model-predicted time delays. This is the fifth paper from the COOL-LAMPS collaboration.
Abstract Copyright:
© 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
Strong gravitational lensing - Quasars - Galaxy clusters
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