Multi-wavelength study of the gravitational lens system RXS J1131-1231

Dominique Sluse, Jean-François Claeskens, Damien Hutsemékers, Jean Surdej

Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2007 · 107 citations · 39 references

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Aims.We discuss and characterize micro-lensing among the 3 brightest lensed images (A-B-C) of the gravitational lens system RXS J1131-1231 (a quadruply imaged AGN) by means of long slit optical and NIR spectroscopy. Qualitative constraints on the size of different emission regions are derived. We also perform a spectroscopic study of two field galaxies located within 1.6 arcmin radius from the lens.

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