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A Luminous Arc In A Z=0.042 Cluster Of Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Luis E. Campusano  and
Eduardo Hardy
Luis E. Campusano
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile
Eduardo Hardy
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile and Département de Physique, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Abstract

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We report the discovery of a bright, arc-like feature with a redshift of z= 0.073 associated with the nearby cluster of galaxies ACO3408, at z = 0.042. The redshift, position, and geometry of the arc with respect to the central cD galaxy of the cluster strongly suggest that this is by far the nearest case known of gravitational lensing of a faint background galaxy.

Type
Chapter 5: Galaxy Clusters
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 173: Astrophysical Applications of Gravitational Lensing , 1996 , pp. 125 - 126
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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