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  • The Discovery of a Gravitat...
    Fan, Xiaohui; Wang, Feige; Yang, Jinyi; Keeton, Charles R.; Yue, Minghao; Zabludoff, Ann; Bian, Fuyan; Bonaglia, Marco; Georgiev, Iskren Y.; Hennawi, Joseph F.; Li, Jiangtao; McGreer, Ian D.; Naidu, Rohan; Pacucci, Fabio; Rabien, Sebastian; Thompson, David; Venemans, Bram; Walter, Fabian; Wang, Ran; Wu, Xue-Bing

    Astrophysical journal. Letters, 01/2019, Letnik: 870, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    Strong gravitational lensing provides a powerful probe of the physical properties of quasars and their host galaxies. A high fraction of the most luminous high-redshift quasars was predicted to be lensed due to magnification bias. However, no multiple imaged quasar was found at z > 5 in previous surveys. We report the discovery of J043947.08+163415.7, a strongly lensed quasar at z = 6.51, the first such object detected at the epoch of reionization, and the brightest quasar yet known at z > 5. High-resolution Hubble Space Telescope imaging reveals a multiple imaged system with a maximum image separation θ ∼ 0 2, best explained by a model of three quasar images lensed by a low-luminosity galaxy at z ∼ 0.7, with a magnification factor of ∼50. The existence of this source suggests that a significant population of strongly lensed, high-redshift quasars could have been missed by previous surveys, as standard color selection techniques would fail when the quasar color is contaminated by the lensing galaxy.