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Cosmic lenses magnify distant galaxies

Magnified by gravitational lenses, 15 newly discovered distant galaxies loom larger and brighter than the rest.

References:

Broadhurst, T.J. 1998. 19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics. December. Paris. Information available at http://apremont.iap.fr/Texas/third-circular.html.

Franx, M., G.D. Illingworth, et al. 1997. A pair of lensed galaxies at z=4.92 in the field of CL 1358+62¹. Astrophysical Journal Letters 486(Sept. 10):L75.

Frye, B., and T. Broadhurst. 1998. Discovery of red-selected arcs at z=4.04 behind Abell 2390. Astrophysical Journal Letters 499(June 1):L115.

Sources:

Thomas J. Broadhurst
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Astronomy
Berkeley, CA 94720

Brenda Frye
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Astronomy
Berkeley, CA 94720

Garth D. Illingworth
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory
Board of Studies in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 25 & 26, December 19 & 26, 1998, p. 389. Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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