Gravitationally lensed arcs in the HST WFPC2 archive Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Sand D.J.
  2. Treu T.
  3. Ellis R.S.
  4. Smith G.P.
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Abstract

We present the results of a systematic search for gravitationally lensed arcs in clusters of galaxies located in the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 data archive. By carefully examining the images of 128 clusters we have located 12 candidate radial arcs and 104 tangential arcs, each of whose length-to-width ratio exceeds 7. In addition, 24 other radial arc candidates were identified with a length-to-width ratio of less than 7. Keck spectroscopy of 17 candidate radial arcs suggests that contamination of the radial arc sample from nonlensed objects is ~30%-50%.

Keywords
  1. galaxy-clusters
  2. gravitational-lensing
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2005ApJ...627...32S
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2008-02-01T17:53:26Z
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