2003/06/02 by T. Treu, L. V. E. Koopmans, L. Koopmans · 35 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution #Einstein radius #Einstein ring #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Gravitational lens #RADIUS #Redshift #Spectrograph #Spiral galaxy #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06858.x
published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 343(2), L29-L32 (Oxford University Press) · 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
arxiv created 2003/06/02 · openalex publication_date 2003/07/22 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A deep spectrum taken with the Echelle Spectrograph and Imager (ESI) at the Keck II Telescope as part of the Lenses Structure and Dynamics (LSD) Survey reveals the redshifts of the extremely red source of the radio Einstein ring in the gravitational lens system MG 1549+305 (zs= 1.170 ± 0.001) and an intermediate-redshift lensed spiral galaxy (zG2= 0.604 ± 0.001). The source redshift allows us to determine the mass of the SB0 lens galaxy enclosed by the Einstein radius (RE= 1.15 ± 0.05 arcsec): ME≡M(<RE) = 8.4 ± 0.7 × 1010h−165 M⊙. This corresponds to a singular isothermal ellipsoid (SIE) velocity dispersion σSIE= 214 ± 5 km s−1, in good agreement with the measured stellar velocity dispersion σ= 227 ± 18 km s−1. The mass-to-light ratio within the Einstein radius (∼1.4 effective radii) is 10 ± 1 h65 M⊙/LB, ⊙. This is only marginally larger than typical stellar mass-to-light ratios of local early-type galaxies, indicating that dark matter is not likely to be dominant inside the Einstein radius.