Bibcode
Galbany, L.; Collett, T. E.; Méndez-Abreu, J.; Sánchez, S. F.; Anderson, J. P.; Kuncarayakti, H.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 479, Issue 1, p.262-274
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2018
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9
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Description
2MASX J04035024-0239275 is a bright red elliptical galaxy at redshift
0.0661 that presents two extended sources at 2″ to the north-east
and 1″ to the south-west. The sizes and surface brightnesses of
the two blue sources are consistent with a gravitationally-lensed
background galaxy. In this paper, we present Multi-Unit Spectroscopic
Explorer (MUSE) observations of this galaxy from the All-weather MUse
Supernova Integral-field Nearby Galaxies (AMUSING) survey, and report
the discovery of a background lensed galaxy at redshift 0.1915, together
with other 15 background galaxies at redshifts ranging from 0.09 to 0.9,
that are not multiply imaged. We have extracted aperture spectra of the
lens and all the sources and fit the stellar continuum with STARLIGHT to
estimate their stellar and emission line properties. A trace of past
merger and active nucleus activity is found in the lensing galaxy, while
the background lensed galaxy is found to be star-forming. Modelling the
lensing potential with a singular isothermal ellipsoid, we find an
Einstein radius of 1{^''.}45 ± 0{^''.}04,
which corresponds to 1.9 kpc at the redshift of the lens and it is much
smaller than its effective radius (reff ˜ 9″).
Comparing the Einstein mass and the STARLIGHT stellar mass within the
same aperture yields a dark matter fraction of 18 per cent ± 8
per cent within the Einstein radius. The advent of large surveys such as
the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will discover a number of
strong-lensed systems, and here we demonstrate how wide-field integral
field spectroscopy offers an excellent approach to study them and to
precisely model lensing effects.
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