Galaxy Zoo Talk

ANOTHER G-lens candidate?

  • planetaryscience by planetaryscience

    Still trying to finish up my TNO survey (I'm almost through 2006!) and I found an interesting galaxy with yet ANOTHER lens-like formation... Hopefully nobody else has found this yet!

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    The galaxy (RA=338.55708, dec=5.89394) has a known redshift of 0.68647, which puts it at a good ~9.2 billion light years away, far enough that at that size it's around 2210,000 light years across- just massive enough to cause some slight lensing.

    Interestingly, DECaLS cuts off just a few arcseconds away from this, and PANSTARRS shows very little hint, if any, of this:

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    Here's the raw SDSS images, by the way:

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    (north is to the right)

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  • Ghost_Sheep_SWR by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

    Can't find a lens reference for it. Doesn't look like a lens to my untrained eye, a bit too clumpy and irregular?

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    redshift is from SDSS spectrum and feature seems to be included in the measurement, perhaps someone can extract information concerning lens clues out of it?

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    http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr12/en/tools/explore/summary.aspx?ra=338.577050&dec=5.893944

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  • planetaryscience by planetaryscience

    It doesn't look the best in the SDSS images, hence why I gave the raw data: it's a perfect fit to a circle drawn with the galaxy at the center.

    One of the problems with discerning the "lens" in the spectrum is that the central galaxy is at least a few times brighter than the other object, so it would be quite difficult to detect a secondary object even if it was at a different redshift.

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  • Dolorous_Edd by Dolorous_Edd

    Here is CFHT r-band , if it helps somehow

    I don't think it is a lens

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  • Budgieye by Budgieye moderator

    I can't see any UV emission in Aladin lite.Fermi http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/?
    target=22%2034%2018.49%20%2B05%2053%2038.20&fov=0.05&survey=P%2FGALEXGR6%2FAIS%2Fcolor

    Hmmm, I might expect the porported arc to be brighter, and white-blue like this.

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    http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr10/en/get/SpecById.ashx?id=847857093141620736

    http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr10/en/get/SpecById.ashx?id=847857093141620736

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