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arxiv: astro-ph/0311169 · v2 · pith:XMO7OZMFnew · submitted 2003-11-07 · 🌌 astro-ph

SDSS J1335+0118: A New Two-Image Gravitational Lens

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We report the discovery of the two-image gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1335+0118. The object was selected as a lens candidate from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The imaging and spectroscopic follow-up observations confirm that the system exhibits two gravitationally lensed images of a quasar at z=1.57. The image separation is 1.56''. We also detect an extended component between the two quasar images, likely the lensing galaxy. Preliminary mass modeling predicts the differential time delay \Delta t ~ 30 h^{-1} day assuming the redshift of the lens galaxy is 0.5.

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