The Gravitationally-Lensed Radio Source MG0751+2716

Abstract

We report the discovery of a new gravitationally lensed radio source. Radio maps of MG0751+2716 show four lensed images, which, at higher resolution, are resolved into long arcs of emission. A group of galaxies is present in optical images, including the principal lensing galaxy, with a much brighter galaxy just a few arcseconds away. We have measured the redshift of this brighter galaxy. No optical counterpart to the background source has been detected. Lens models that can readily reproduce the lensed image positions all require a substantial shear component. However, neither the very elongated lens nor the bright nearby galaxy are correctly positioned to explain the shear. Lens models which associate the mass with the light of galaxies in the group can produce an acceptable fit, but only with an extreme mass-to-light ratio in one of the minor group members.

1 Latex aaspp4 manuscript, 17 pages with 5 postscript figures. Submitted to AJ 1997.02.19; accepted 1997.04.15 . Mostly stylistic changes since the first submission, with a few minor changes in content and the tables

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