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2025ApJ...982L..23D - Astrophys. J., 982, L23 (2025/March-3)

Discovery of a Low-mass Strong-lens System in SMACS J0723.3-7327.

DENG L., SHU Y., WANG L., LI G., CAMINHA G.B., DONG J., HE Z., QU H. and LUO R.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the discovery of an intriguing, low-mass galaxy-scale strong-lens system in the SMACS J0723.3-7327 galaxy cluster. By modeling James Webb Space Telescope imaging and Very Large Telescope Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer spectroscopic data, we find that the lens is cluster member galaxy at z = 0.397 with an Einstein radius of 0$\mathop{.}\limits^{^{\prime\prime} }$424 ± 0$\mathop{.}\limits^{^{\prime\prime} }$012, stellar mass of M* = (3.3 ± 0.8) × 1010M⊙, half-light radius of ∼1 kpc, and central stellar velocity dispersion of 140 ± 6 km s–1. This lens galaxy is one of the few strong lens galaxies known to date that have stellar mass as low as M* ∼ 1010.5M⊙, offering an exceptional opportunity to peek into the population of low-mass galaxies that has largely remained unexplored in the context of strong-lensing studies. This strong lens system can also assist in assessing the systematic uncertainty in the lens modeling of cluster member galaxies.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Strong gravitational lensing - Galaxy formation - Galaxy evolution

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