• DOI:10.1088/2041-8205/789/2/L31
Corpus ID: 56376674

DISCOVERY OF A STRONG LENSING GALAXY EMBEDDED IN A CLUSTER AT z = 1.62*

@article{Wong2014DISCOVERYOA,
  title={DISCOVERY OF A STRONG LENSING GALAXY EMBEDDED IN A CLUSTER AT z = 1.62*},
  author={K. Wong and K. Tran and S. Suyu and I. Momcheva and G. Brammer and M. Brodwin and A. Gonzalez and A. Halkola and G. Kacprzak and A. Koekemoer and C. Papovich and Gregory H. Rudnick Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics and A. Sinica and Texas AM University and Y. University and S. Institute and University of Missouri - Kansas City and U. C. Florida and S. U. Technology and U. Kansas},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2014},
  volume={789},
  pages={389-392}
}

• K. Wong, K. Tran, +18 authors U. Kansas
• Published 2014
• Physics
• The Astrophysical Journal

We identify a strong lensing galaxy in the cluster IRC 0218 that is spectroscopically confirmed to be at z = 1:62, making it the highest-redshift strong lens galaxy known. The lens is one of the two brightest cluster galaxies and lenses a background source galaxy into an arc and a counterimage. With Hubble Space Telescope (HST) grism and Keck/LRIS spectroscopy, we measure the source redshift to be zS = 2:26. Using HST imaging, we model the lens mass distribution with an elliptical power-law… Expand

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