SLACS. XIII. Galaxy-scale strong lens candidates Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Shu Y.
  2. Brownstein J.R.
  3. Bolton A.S.
  4. Koopmans L.V.E.
  5. Treu T.,Montero-Dorta A.D.
  6. Auger M.W.
  7. Czoske O.
  8. Gavazzi R.
  9. Marshall P.J.,Moustakas L.A.
  10. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the full sample of 118 galaxy-scale strong-lens candidates in the Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) Survey for the Masses (S4TM) Survey, which are spectroscopically selected from the final data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Follow-up Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging observations confirm that 40 candidates are definite strong lenses with multiple lensed images. The foreground-lens galaxies are found to be early-type galaxies (ETGs) at redshifts 0.06-0.44, and background sources are emission-line galaxies at redshifts 0.22-1.29. As an extension of the SLACS Survey, the S4TM Survey is the first attempt to preferentially search for strong-lens systems with relatively lower lens masses than those in the pre-existing strong-lens samples. By fitting HST data with a singular isothermal ellipsoid model, we find that the total projected mass within the Einstein radius of the S4TM strong-lens sample ranges from 3x10^10^M_{sun}_ to 2x10^11^M_{sun}_. In Shu+ (2015ApJ...803...71S), we have derived the total stellar mass of the S4TM lenses to be 5x10^10^M_{sun}_ to 1x10^12^M_{sun}_. Both the total enclosed mass and stellar mass of the S4TM lenses are on average almost a factor of 2 smaller than those of the SLACS lenses, which also represent the typical mass scales of the current strong-lens samples. The extended mass coverage provided by the S4TM sample can enable a direct test, with the aid of strong lensing, for transitions in scaling relations, kinematic properties, mass structure, and dark-matter content trends of ETGs at intermediate-mass scales as noted in previous studies.

Keywords
  1. gravitational-lensing
  2. redshifted
  3. hst-photometry
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. galaxy-kinematics
  6. galaxies
  7. spectroscopy
  8. stellar-masses
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2017ApJ...851...48S
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