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Discovery of Two Gravitationally Lensed Quasars with Image Separations of 3'' from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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Masamune Oguri1,2, Naohisa Inada3, Joseph F. Hennawi1,4,5, Gordon T. Richards1, David E. Johnston1, Joshua A. Frieman6,7, Bartosz Pindor8, Michael A. Strauss1, Robert J. Brunner9, Robert H. Becker10,11, Francisco J. Castander12, Michael D. Gregg10,11, Patrick B. Hall13, Hans-Walter Rix14, Donald P. Schneider15, Neta A. Bahcall1, Jonathan Brinkmann16 and Donald G. York6,17

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We report the discovery of two doubly imaged quasars, SDSS J100128.61+502756.9 and SDSS J120629.65+433217.6, at redshifts of 1.838 and 1.789, and with image separations of 2farcs86 and 2farcs90, respectively. The objects were selected as lens candidates from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Based on the identical nature of the spectra of the two quasars in each pair and the identification of the lens galaxies, we conclude that the objects are gravitational lenses. The lenses are complicated; in both systems there are several galaxies in the fields very close to the quasars, in addition to the lens galaxies themselves. The lens modeling implies that these nearby galaxies contribute significantly to the lens potentials. On larger scales, we have detected an enhancement in the galaxy density near SDSS J100128.61+502756.9. The number of lenses with image separation of ~3'' in the SDSS already exceeds the prediction of simple theoretical models based on the standard Λ-dominated cosmology and observed velocity function of galaxies.


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cosmology: observations; cosmology: theory; gravitational lensing; quasars: individual (SDSS J100128.61+502756.9, SDSS J120629.65+433217.6)


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Issue 1 (2005 March 20)

Received 2004 November 9, accepted for publication 2004 December 7



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