COOL-LAMPS. Discovery of COOL J0335−1927, a Gravitationally Lensed Quasar at z = 3.27 with an Image Separation of 23.″3
(2023)
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Napier, K., Gladders, M. D., Sharon, K., Dahle, H., Cloonan, A. P., Mahler, G., …Zhao, M. (2023). COOL-LAMPS. Discovery of COOL J0335−1927, a Gravitationally Lensed Quasar at z = 3.27 with an Image Separation of 23.″3. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 954(2), Article L38. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acf132
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COOL-LAMPS. IV. A Sample of Bright Strongly Lensed Galaxies at 3 < z < 4 (2023)
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Zhang, Y., Manwadkar, V., Gladders, M. D., Khullar, G., Dahle, H., Napier, K. A., …Zaborowski, E. (2023). COOL-LAMPS. IV. A Sample of Bright Strongly Lensed Galaxies at 3 < z < 4. Astrophysical Journal, 950(1), Article 58. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc9beWe report the discovery of five bright, strong gravitationally lensed galaxies at 3 < z < 4: COOL J0101+2055 (z = 3.459), COOL J0104−0757 (z = 3.480), COOL J0145+1018 (z = 3.310), COOL J0516−2208 (z = 3.549), and COOL J1356+0339 (z = 3.753). These ga... Read More about COOL-LAMPS. IV. A Sample of Bright Strongly Lensed Galaxies at 3 < z < 4.
JWST Reveals a Possible z ∼ 11 Galaxy Merger in Triply Lensed MACS0647–JD (2023)
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Hsiao, T. Y., Coe, D., Abdurro’uf, Whitler, L., Jung, I., Khullar, G., …Welch, B. (2023). JWST Reveals a Possible z ∼ 11 Galaxy Merger in Triply Lensed MACS0647–JD. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 949(2), Article L34. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acc94bMACS0647–JD is a triply lensed z ∼ 11 galaxy originally discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope. The three lensed images are magnified by factors of ∼8, 5, and 2 to AB mag 25.1, 25.6, and 26.6 at 3.5 μm. The brightest is over a magnitude brighter... Read More about JWST Reveals a Possible z ∼ 11 Galaxy Merger in Triply Lensed MACS0647–JD.
Redshift Evolution of the Feedback–Cooling Equilibrium in the Core of 48 SPT Galaxy Clusters: A Joint Chandra–SPT–ATCA Analysis (2023)
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Ruppin, F., McDonald, M., Hlavacek-Larrondo, J., Bayliss, M., Bleem, L., Calzadilla, M., Edge, A., Filipović, M., Floyd, B., Garmire, G., Khullar, G., Kim, K., Kraft, R., Mahler, G., Norris, R., O’Brien, A., Reichardt, C., Somboonpanyakul, T., Stark, A., & Tothill, N. (2023). Redshift Evolution of the Feedback–Cooling Equilibrium in the Core of 48 SPT Galaxy Clusters: A Joint Chandra–SPT–ATCA Analysis. Astrophysical Journal, 948(1), Article 49. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc38dWe analyze the cooling and feedback properties of 48 galaxy clusters at redshifts 0.4 < z < 1.3 selected from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) catalogs to evolve like the progenitors of massive and well-studied systems at z ∼ 0. We estimate the radio p... Read More about Redshift Evolution of the Feedback–Cooling Equilibrium in the Core of 48 SPT Galaxy Clusters: A Joint Chandra–SPT–ATCA Analysis.
A search for transients in the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey (RELICS): three new supernovae (2023)
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Golubchik, M., Zitrin, A., Pierel, J., Furtak, L. J., Meena, A. K., Graur, O., …Su, Y. (2023). A search for transients in the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey (RELICS): three new supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522(3), 4718–4727. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1238The Reionization Cluster Survey imaged 41 galaxy clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), in order to detect lensed and high-redshift galaxies. Each cluster was imaged to about 26.5 AB mag in three optical and four near-infrared bands, taken i... Read More about A search for transients in the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey (RELICS): three new supernovae.
SPT-CL J2215−3537: A Massive Starburst at the Center of the Most Distant Relaxed Galaxy Cluster (2023)
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Calzadilla, M. S., Bleem, L. E., McDonald, M., Gladders, M. D., Mantz, A. B., Allen, S. W., …Stark, A. A. (2023). SPT-CL J2215−3537: A Massive Starburst at the Center of the Most Distant Relaxed Galaxy Cluster. Astrophysical Journal, 947(2), Article 44. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc6c2We present the discovery of the most distant, dynamically relaxed cool core cluster, SPT-CL J2215−3537 (SPT2215), and its central brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) at z = 1.16. Using new X-ray observations, we demonstrate that SPT2215 harbors a strong c... Read More about SPT-CL J2215−3537: A Massive Starburst at the Center of the Most Distant Relaxed Galaxy Cluster.
RXJ0437+00: constraining dark matter with exotic gravitational lenses (2023)
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Lagattuta, D. J., Richard, J., Ebeling, H., Basto, Q., Cerny, C., Edge, A., Jauzac, M., Mahler, G., & Massey, R. (2023). RXJ0437+00: constraining dark matter with exotic gravitational lenses. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522(1), 1091-1107. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad803We present the first strong-gravitational-lensing analysis of the galaxy cluster RX J0437.1+0043 (RXJ0437; z = 0.285). Newly obtained, deep MUSE observations, Keck/MOSFIRE near-infrared spectroscopy, and Hubble Space Telescope SNAPshot imaging reveal... Read More about RXJ0437+00: constraining dark matter with exotic gravitational lenses.
COOL–LAMPS. III. Discovery of a 25.″9 Separation Quasar Lensed by a Merging Galaxy Cluster* (2023)
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Martinez, M. N., Napier, K. A., Cloonan, A. P., Sukay, E., Gozman, K., Merz, K., …Gladders, M. D. (2023). COOL–LAMPS. III. Discovery of a 25.″9 Separation Quasar Lensed by a Merging Galaxy Cluster* . Astrophysical Journal, 946(2), Article 63. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acbe39In the third paper from the COOL–LAMPS Collaboration, we report the discovery of COOL J0542-2125, a gravitationally lensed quasar at z = 1.84, observed as three images due to an intervening massive galaxy cluster at z = 0.61. The lensed quasar images... Read More about COOL–LAMPS. III. Discovery of a 25.″9 Separation Quasar Lensed by a Merging Galaxy Cluster* .
Joint HST, VLT/MUSE, and XMM−Newton observations to constrain the mass distribution of the two strong lensing galaxy clusters: MACS J0242.5-2132 and MACS J0949.8+1708 (2023)
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Allingham, J. F. V., Jauzac, M., Lagattuta, D. J., Mahler, G., Bœhm, C., Lewis, G. F., …Ettori, S. (2023). Joint HST, VLT/MUSE, and XMM−Newton observations to constrain the mass distribution of the two strong lensing galaxy clusters: MACS J0242.5-2132 and MACS J0949.8+1708. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522(1), 1118-1137. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad917
Precision Modeling of JWST's First Cluster Lens SMACS J0723.3–7327* (2023)
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Mahler, G., Jauzac, M., Richard, J., Beauchesne, B., Ebeling, H., Lagattuta, D., Natarajan, P., Sharon, K., Atek, H., Claeyssens, A., Clément, B., Eckert, D., Edge, A., Kneib, J.-P., & Niemiec, A. (2023). Precision Modeling of JWST's First Cluster Lens SMACS J0723.3–7327*. Astrophysical Journal, 945(1), Article 49. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acaea9Exploiting the fundamentally achromatic nature of gravitational lensing, we present a lens model for the massive galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3−7323 (SMACS J0723; z = 0.388) that significantly improves upon earlier work. Building on strong-lensing cons... Read More about Precision Modeling of JWST's First Cluster Lens SMACS J0723.3–7327*.