Strong-lens candidates from HSC-SSP PDR2 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Shu Y.
  2. Canameras R.
  3. Schuldt S.
  4. Suyu S.H.
  5. Taubenberger S.
  6. Inoue K.T.,Jaelani A.T.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We carry out a search for strong-lens systems containing high-redshift lens galaxies with the goal of extending strong-lensing-assisted galaxy evolutionary studies to earlier cosmic time. Two strong-lens classifiers are constructed from a deep residual network and trained with datasets of different lens-redshift and brightness distributions. We classify a sample of 5356628 pre-selected objects from the Wide-layer fields in the second public data release of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) by applying the two classifiers to their HSC gri-filter cutouts. Cutting off at thresholds that correspond to a false-positive rate of 10^-3^ on our test set, the two classifiers identify 5,468 and 6,119 strong-lens candidates. Visually inspecting the cutouts of those candidates results in 735 grade-A or B strong-lens candidates in total, of which 277 candidates are discovered for the first time. This is the single largest set of galaxy-scale strong-lens candidates discovered with HSC data to date, and nearly half of it (331/735) contains lens galaxies with photometric redshifts above 0.6. Our discoveries will serve as a valuable target list for ongoing and scheduled spectroscopic surveys such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph project, and the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer.

Keywords
  1. gravitational-lensing
  2. surveys
  3. redshifted
  4. infrared-photometry
  5. visible-astronomy
  6. Wide-band photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2022A&A...662A...4S
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36620004

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History

2022-05-25T12:36:43Z
Resource record created
2022-05-25T12:36:43Z
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2022-10-14T13:56:33Z
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