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American Astronomical Society, Astrophysical Journal, 1(692), p. 677-683, 2009

DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/692/1/677

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Differential X-ray absorption and dust-to-gas ratios of the lens galaxies SBS 0909+523, FBQS 0951+2635, and B 1152+199

Journal article published in 2009 by Xinyu Dai ORCID, Christopher S. Kochanek
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We analyzed Chandra observations of three gravitational lenses, SBS 0909+523, FBQS 0951+2635, and B 1152+199, to measure the differential X-ray absorption and the dust-to-gas ratio of the lens galaxies. We successfully detected the differential X-ray absorption in SBS 0909+523 and B 1152+199, and failed to detect it in FBQS 0951+2635 due to the dramatic drop in its flux from the ROSAT epoch. These measurements significantly increase the sample of dust-to-gas ratio measurements in cosmologically distant, normal galaxies. Using the larger sample, we obtain an average dust-to-gas ratio of E(B – V)/N H = (1.5 ± 0.5) × 10–22 mag cm2 atoms–1 with an estimated intrinsic dispersion in the ratio of 40%. This average dust-to-gas ratio is consistent with our previous measurement and the average Galactic value of 1.7 × 10–22 mag cm2 atoms–1, and the estimated intrinsic dispersion is also consistent with the 30% observed in the Galaxy. A larger sample size is still needed to improve the measurements and to begin studying the evolution in the ratio with cosmic time. We also detected X-ray microlensing in SBS 0909+523 and significant X-ray variability in FBQS 0951+2635.