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A new VLA/e-MERLIN limit on central images in the gravitational lens system CLASS B1030+074

2016· article· en· 26 citations· W2325743071 on OpenAlex· 10.1093/mnras/stw773

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Abstract

We present the new Very Large Array 22 GHz and extended Multi-Element Remote-Linked Interferometer Network 5 GHz observations of CLASS B1030+074, a two-image strong gravitational lens system whose background source is a compact flat-spectrum radio quasar. In such systems we expect a third image of the background source to form close to the centre of the lensing galaxy. The existence and brightness of such images is important for investigation of the central mass distributions of lensing galaxies, but only one secure detection has been made so far in a galaxy-scale lens system. The noise levels achieved in our new B1030+074 images reach 3 μJy beam−1 and represent an improvement in central image constraints of nearly an order of magnitude over previous work, with correspondingly better resulting limits on the shape of the central mass profile of the lensing galaxy. Simple models with an isothermal outer power-law slope now require either the influence of a central supermassive black hole (SMBH), or an inner power-law slope very close to isothermal, in order to suppress the central image below our detection limit. Using the central mass profiles inferred from light distributions in Virgo galaxies, moved to <it>z</it> = 0.5, and matching to the observed Einstein radius, we now find that 45 per cent of such mass profiles should give observable central images, 10 per cent should give central images with a flux density still below our limit, and the remaining systems have extreme demagnification produced by the central SMBH. Further observations of similar objects will therefore allow proper statistical constraints to be placed on the central properties of elliptical galaxies at high redshift.

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The record

Venue
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Topic
Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
Field
Physics and Astronomy
Canadian institutions
University of British ColumbiaDalhousie University
Funders
Science and Technology Facilities CouncilNational Radio Astronomy ObservatoryNational Science Foundation
Keywords
PhysicsGravitational lensAstrophysicsGalaxyQuasarSupermassive black holeEinstein radiusLens (geology)AstronomyWeak gravitational lensingStrong gravitational lensingEinstein ringRedshiftOptics
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