Spectroscopic redshifts in strong lens fields Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Momcheva I.G.
  2. Williams K.A.
  3. Cool R.J.
  4. Keeton C.R.
  5. Zabludoff A.I.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the spectroscopic redshift catalog from a wide-field survey of the fields of 28 galaxy-mass strong gravitational lenses. We discuss the acquisition and reduction of the survey data, collected over 40 nights of 6.5m MMT and Magellan time, employing four different multiobject spectrographs. We determine that no biases are introduced by combining data sets obtained with different telescope and spectrograph combinations. Special care is taken to determine redshift uncertainties using repeat observations. The redshift catalog consists of 9768 new and unique galaxy redshifts. 82.4% of the catalog redshifts are between z=0.1 and z=0.7, and the catalog median redshift is z_med_=0.36. The data from this survey will be used to study the lens environments and line-of-sight structures to gain a better understanding of the effects of large-scale structure on lens statistics and lens-derived parameters.

Keywords
  1. gravitational-lensing
  2. spectroscopy
  3. redshifted
  4. surveys
  5. galaxies
  6. catalogs
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2015ApJS..219...29M
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/219/29
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/219/29
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22190029

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History

2015-11-02T10:24:29Z
Resource record created
2015-11-02T10:24:29Z
Created
2017-09-12T13:07:13Z
Updated

Contact

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