A COMPLETE INFRARED EINSTEIN RING IN THE GRAVITATIONAL LENS SYSTEM B1938+666

Authors
KING LJ JACKSON N BLANDFORD RD BREMER MN BROWNE IWA DEBRUYN AG FASSNACHT C KOOPMANS L MARLOW D WILKINSON PN
Citation
Lj. King et al., A COMPLETE INFRARED EINSTEIN RING IN THE GRAVITATIONAL LENS SYSTEM B1938+666, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 295(2), 1998, pp. 41-44
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society → ACNP
ISSN journal
00358711
Volume
295
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
41 - 44
Database
ISI
SICI code
0035-8711(1998)295:2<41:ACIERI>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
We report the discovery, using NICMOS on the Hubble Space Telescope, o f an arcsec-diameter Einstein ring in the gravitational lens system B1 938 + 666. The lensing galaxy is also detected, and is most likely an early-type galaxy. Modelling of the ring is presented and compared wit h the radio structure from MERLIN maps. We show that the Einstein ring is consistent with the gravitational lensing of an extended infrared component, centred between the two radio components.