A Compact Early-type Galaxy at z = 0.6 Under a Magnifying Lens: Evidence For Inside-out Growth

Abstract

We use Keck laser guide star adaptive optics imaging and exploit the magnifying effects of strong gravitational lensing (the effective resolution is FWHM ~ 200 pc) to investigate the sub-kpc scale of an intermediate-redshift (z = 0.63) massive early-type galaxy being lensed by a foreground early-type galaxy; we dub this class of strong gravitational lens systems EELs, e.g., early-type/early-type lenses. We find that the background source is massive (M* = 10^{10.9} M_sun) and compact (r_e = 1.1 kpc), and a two-component fit is required to model accurately the surface brightness distribution, including an extended low-surface-brightness component. This extended component may arise from the evolution of higher-redshift `red nuggets' or may already be in place at z ~ 2 but is unobservable due to cosmological surface brightness dimming.

5 pages, 4 figures; accepted to MNRAS

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