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Gaia GraL: Gaia DR2 Gravitational Lens Systems. V. Doubly-imaged QSOs discovered from entropy and wavelets
Krone-Martins, A.; Graham, M. J.; Stern, D. et al.
2019In Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Keywords :
Gravitational lensing: strong; Astrometry; Quasars: general; Catalogues; Surveys; Methods: data analysis
Abstract :
[en] The discovery of multiply-imaged gravitationally lensed QSOs is fundamental to many astronomical and cosmological studies. However, these objects are rare and challenging to discover due to requirements of high-angular resolution astrometric, multiwavelength photometric and spectroscopic data. This has limited the number of known systems to a few hundred objects. We aim to reduce the constraints on angular resolution and discover multiply-imaged QSO candidates by using new candidate selection principles based on unresolved photometric time- series and ground-based images from public surveys. We selected candidates for multiply-imaged QSOs based on low levels of entropy computed from Catalina unresolved photometric time-series or Euclidean similarity to known lenses in a space defined by the wavelet power spectra of Pan-STARSS DR2 or DECaLS DR7 images, combined with multiple {\it Gaia} DR2 sources or large astrometric errors and supervised and unsupervised learning methods. We then confirmed spectroscopically some candidates with the Palomar Hale, Keck-I, and ESO/NTT telescopes. Here we report the discovery and confirmation of seven doubly-imaged QSOs and one likely double quasar. This demonstrates the potential of combining space-astrometry, even if unresolved, with low spatial-resolution photometric time-series and/or low-spatial resolution multi-band imaging to discover multiply-imaged lensed QSOs.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Krone-Martins, A.
Graham, M. J.
Stern, D.
Djorgovski, S. G.
Delchambre, Ludovic  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Groupe d'astrophysique des hautes énergies (GAPHE)
Ducourant, C.
Teixeira, R.
Drake, A. J.
Scarano, S.
Surdej, Jean  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO)
Galluccio, L.
Jalan, P.
Wertz, O.
Klüter, J.
Mignard, F.
Spindola-Duarte, C.
Dobie, D.
Slezak, E.
Sluse, Dominique  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Origines Cosmologiques et Astrophysiques (OrCa)
Murphy, T.
Boehm, C.
Nierenberg, A. M.
Bastian, U.
Wambsganss, J.
LeCampion, J.-F.
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Language :
English
Title :
Gaia GraL: Gaia DR2 Gravitational Lens Systems. V. Doubly-imaged QSOs discovered from entropy and wavelets
Publication date :
01 December 2019
Journal title :
Astronomy and Astrophysics
ISSN :
0004-6361
eISSN :
1432-0746
Publisher :
EDP Sciences, Les Ulis, France
Peer reviewed :
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