2018/05/30 by T. Anguita, Paul L. Schechter, P. L. Schechter +71 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Cosmology #Dark energy #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Gravitational lens #Gravitational microlensing #Lens (geology) #Optics #Physics #Quasar #Redshift #Weak gravitational lensing #astro-ph.CO #astro-ph.GA
paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/mnras/sty2172
13 pages, 8 figures. MNRAS submitted (05/24). Approved by the DES Collaboration Wide Review
arxiv created 2018/05/30 · openalex publication_date 2018/08/08 · arxiv updated 2018/08/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
We report upon the follow-up of 34 candidate lensed quasars found in the Dark Energy Survey using NTT EFOSC, Magellan-IMACS, KECK-ESI, and SOAR-SAMI. These candidates were selected by a combination of double component fitting, morphological assessment, and colour analysis. Most systems followed up are indeed composed of at least one quasar image and 13 with two or more quasar images: two lenses, four projected binaries, and seven nearly identical quasar pairs (NIQs). The two systems confirmed as genuine gravitationally lensed quasars are one quadruple at |z|s = 1.713 and one double at |z|s = 1.515. Lens modelling of these two systems reveals that both systems require very little contribution from the environment to reproduce the image configuration. Nevertheless, small flux anomalies can be observed in one of the images of the quad. Further observations of nine inconclusive systems (including seven NIQs) will allow to confirm (or not) their gravitational lens nature.