The gravitational lens CFRS 14 . 1311 = HST 14176 + 5226

نویسندگان

  • David Crampton
  • O. Le Fèvre
  • F. Hammer
  • S. J. Lilly
چکیده

Ratnatunga et al. (1995) have recently proposed that an object, HST 14176+5226, in the " Groth-Westphal " HST survey strip is an " Einstein cross " grav-itational lens. By chance, this object has been previously observed in the Canada-France Redshift Survey. The candidate lens, catalogued as CFRS14.1311, is an elliptical galaxy at z = 0.81. In addition, the spectrum shows a strong, spatially-extended, emission feature at 5342Å that almost certainly originates from two of the four " lensed " images. We tentatively identify this emission line as Ly α at z =3.4. A less prominent emission feature at 6822Å may be C IV 1549. Our data thus support the identification of this system as a new quadruple-image lens.

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تاریخ انتشار 1996