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  • 标题:Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Quadruply Lensed Quasar WG0214-2105
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  • 作者:Chien-Hsiu Lee
  • 期刊名称:The Astronomical journal
  • 印刷版ISSN:0004-6256
  • 电子版ISSN:1538-3881
  • 出版年度:2019
  • 卷号:157
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:1-4
  • DOI:10.3847/1538-3881/aaf162
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:American Institute of Physics
  • 摘要:We present timely spectroscopic follow-ups of WG0214-2105, a background quasar strongly lensed by a foreground galaxy into four images. WG0204-2105 was recently identified by Agnello from a combination of the mid-infrared quasar color selection using WISE photometry and the exquisite astrometric resolution of Gaia, and can be clearly seen in the Dark Energy Survey, VST-ALTAS, and Pan-STARRS optical imaging. The quasar images are relatively faint, thus prompting us to conduct spectroscopic observations using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrographs (GMOS) spectrograph on board the 8m Gemini telescope. The GMOS spectra firmly detected the emission lines, e.g., Lyα, C IV , and C III ], from the background quasar, allowing us to confirm the lensing nature and pin down the quasar redshifts to be z=3.24. There are also absorption lines, putatively associated with a foreground absorber at z=0.45. We also derive the broadband photometry of the quasar images using the Pan-STARRS grizy images, as well as the time-delay using the aforementioned redshifts. Future long-term photometric follow-up will help narrow down the time-delays, providing a firm basis to determine Hubble constant.
  • 关键词:gravitational lensing: strong;quasars: general;techniques: image processing
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