Adaptive optics imaging and integral field spectroscopy of APM 08279+5255: Evidence for gravitational lensing

C. Ledoux, B. Theodore, P. Petitjean +5

We report observations of the z = 3.87 broad absorption line quasar APM 08279+5255 (Irwin et al. 1998) with the Adaptive Optics Bonnette (AOB) of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope…