A gravitationally lensed quasar with quadruple images separated by 14.62 arcseconds

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6968, 2003, Pages 810-812

  Inada, Naohisa ^a   Oguri, Masamune ^a   Pindor, Bartosz ^b   Hennawi, Joseph F ^b   Chiu, Kuenley ^c   Zheng, Wei ^c   Ichikawa, Shin Ichi ^d   Gregg, Michael D ^e,f   Becker, Robert H ^e,f   Suto, Yasushi ^a   Strauss, Michael A ^b   Turner, Edwin L ^b   Keeton, Charles R ^g   Annis, James ^h   Castander, Francisco J ⁱ   Eisenstein, Daniel J ^j   Frieman, Joshua A ^g,h   Fukugita, Masataka ^a   Gunn, James E ^b   Johnston, David E ^g   Kent, Stephen M ^h   Nichol, Robert C ^k   Richards, Gordon T ^b   Rix, Hans Walter ^l   Sheldon, Erin Scott ^g   Bahcall, Neta A ^b   Brinkmann, J ^m   Ivezić, Zeljko ^b   Lamb, Don Q ^g   McKay, Timothy A ⁿ   Schneider, Donald P ^o   York, Donald G ^g,p   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^h FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ CSIC   (Spain)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^k CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^m APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^o PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; GRAVITATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

COSMOLOGY; DARK MATTER;

ASTROPHYSICS;

GRAVITY;

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; COLOR; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GRAVITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LENS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0346980171     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02153     Document Type: Article

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