What Makes Quadruply Lensed Quasars Quadruple?
| Autor: | Paul L. Schechter, Kaylee M. de Soto, Richard Luhtaru |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Physics
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Strong gravitational lensing FOS: Physical sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Quasar Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics Ellipse Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies 01 natural sciences Galaxy Flattening Hyperbola Gravitation Space and Planetary Science Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) 0103 physical sciences Quadrupole 010303 astronomy & astrophysics Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | The Astrophysical Journal. 915:4 |
| ISSN: | 1538-4357 0004-637X |
| DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/abfda1 |
| Popis: | Among known strongly lensed quasar systems, ~25% have gravitational potentials sufficiently flat (and sources sufficiently well aligned) to produce four images rather than two. The projected flattening of the lensing galaxy and tides from neighboring galaxies both contribute to the potential's quadrupole. Witt's hyperbola and Wynne's ellipse permit determination of the overall quadrupole from the positions of the quasar images. The position of the lensing galaxy resolves the distinct contributions of intrinsic ellipticity and tidal shear to that quadrupole. Among 31 quadruply lensed quasars systems with statistically significant decompositions, 15 are either reliably ($2\sigma$) or provisionally ($1\sigma$) shear-dominated and 11 are either reliably or provisionally ellipticity-dominated. For the remaining 8, the two effects make roughly equal contributions to the combined cross section (newly derived here) for quadruple lensing. This observational result is strongly at variance with the ellipticity-dominated forecast of Oguri & Marshall (2010). Comment: AASTeX v6.3, 13 pages with 2 figures, revised with expanded discussion of magnification bias. Accepted for publication in ApJ |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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