Bibcode
Bettinelli, M.; Simioni, M.; Aparicio, A.; Hidalgo, S. L.; Cassisi, S.; Walker, A. R.; Piotto, G.; Valdes, F.
Referencia bibliográfica
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Volume 461, Issue 1, p.L67-L71
Fecha de publicación:
9
2016
Número de citas
12
Número de citas referidas
11
Descripción
We report the discovery of an optical Einstein ring in the Sculptor
constellation, IAC J010127-334319, in the vicinity of the Sculptor dwarf
spheroidal galaxy. It is an almost complete ring (˜300°) with
a diameter of ˜4.5 arcsec. The discovery was made serendipitously
from inspecting Dark Energy Camera (DECam) archive imaging data.
Confirmation of the object nature has been obtained by deriving
spectroscopic redshifts for both components, lens and source, from
observations at the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) with the
spectrograph OSIRIS. The lens, a massive early-type galaxy, has a
redshift of z = 0.581, while the source is a starburst galaxy with
redshift of z = 1.165. The total enclosed mass that produces the lensing
effect has been estimated to be Mtot = (1.86 ± 0.23)
× 1012 M⊙.