The detection of a population of submillimeter-bright, strongly lensed galaxies

Mattia Negrello (1) , R. Hopwood (1) , G. de Zotti (2, 3) , A. Cooray (4) , A. Verma (5) , J. Bock (6, 7) , D. T. Frayer (8) , M. A. Gurwell (9) , A. Omont (10) , R. Neri (11) , H. Dannerbauer (12) , L. L. Leeuw (13) , E. Barton (4) , J. Cooke (4) , S. Kim (4) , E. da Cunha (14) , G. Rodighiero (15) , P. Cox (11) , D. G. Bonfield (16) , M. J. Jarvis (16) , S. Serjeant (1) , R. J. Ivison (17) , S. Dye (18) , I. Aretxaga (19) , D. H. Hughes (19) , E. Ibar (17) , F. Bertoldi (20) , I. Valtchanov (21) , S. Eales (18) , L. Dunne , S. P. Driver , R. Auld , S. Buttiglione (2) , A. Cava (22) , C.A. Grady (23) , D. L. Clements (24) , A. Dariush (18) , J. Fritz (25) , D. Hill (26) , J. B. Hornbeck , L. Kelvin , Guilaine Lagache (27) , M. Lopez-Caniego , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo , S. Maddox , E. Pascale , M. Pohlen , E. E. Rigby , A. Robotham , C. Simpson , D. J. B. Smith , P. Temi , M. A. Thompson , B. E. Woodgate , D. G. York , J. E. Aguirre , A. Beelen (28) , A. Blain (29) , A. J. Baker , M. Birkinshaw , R. Blundell (30) , C. M. Bradford , D. Burgarella (31) , L. Danese , J. S. Dunlop , S. Fleuren , J. Glenn (32) , A. I. Harris , J. Kamenetzky , R. E. Lupu , R. J. Maddalena , B. F. Madore , P. R. Maloney , H. Matsuhara , M. J. Michaowski , E. J. Murphy , B. J. Naylor , H. Nguyen , C. Popescu , S. Rawlings , D. Rigopoulou , D. Scott , K. S. Scott , Mark Seibert , I. Smail (33) , R. J. Tuffs , J. D. Vieira (29) , P. P. van Der Werf , J. Zmuidzinas (34)

1 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Milton Keynes]
2 OAPD - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova
3 SISSA / ISAS - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati / International School for Advanced Studies
4 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Irvine]
5 Oxford Astrophysics
6 Computing and Mathematical Sciences [Pasadena]]
7 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
8 NRAO - National Radio Astronomy Observatory [Green Bank]
9 CfA - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
10 IAP - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
11 IRAM - Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique
12 AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112) - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
13 SETI Institute
14 Department of Physics [Heraklion]
15 Dipartimento di Astronomia
16 Centre for Astrophysics Research [Hatfield]
17 UK ATC - UK Astronomy Technology Centre
18 School of Physics and Astronomy [Cardiff]
19 INAOE - Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica
20 AlfA - Argelander-Institut für Astronomie
21 Herschel Science Centre
22 IAC - Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
23 Eureka Scientific
24 Blackett Laboratory
25 LBP - Laboratoire de Biophotonique et Pharmacologie - UMR 7213
26 University of St Andrews [Scotland]
27 Université Paris-Sud
28 IAS - Institut d'astrophysique spatiale
29 CALTECH - California Institute of Technology
30 Centre for Astronomy
31 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
32 CASA - Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy [Boulder]
33 ICC - Institute for Computational Cosmology
34 Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Gravitational lensing is a powerful astrophysical and cosmological probe and is particularly valuable at submillimeter wavelengths for the study of the statistical and individual properties of dusty star-forming galaxies. However, the identification of gravitational lenses is often time-intensive, involving the sifting of large volumes of imaging or spectroscopic data to find few candidates. We used early data from the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey to demonstrate that wide-area submillimeter surveys can simply and easily detect strong gravitational lensing events, with close to 100% efficiency

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Astrophysics [astro-ph]; Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA]; Physics [physics]; Astrophysics [astro-ph]; Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA]

Mattia Negrello, R. Hopwood, G. de Zotti, A. Cooray, A. Verma, et al.. The detection of a population of submillimeter-bright, strongly lensed galaxies. Science, 2010, 330 (6005), pp.800-804. ⟨10.1126/science.1193420⟩. ⟨cea-00866810⟩