Persephone's Torch: A 15th Magnitude Quadruply-Lensed Quasar From the Couch Discovered with SPHEREx and the LBT

Frederick B. Davies, Eduardo Bañados, Sarah E. I. Bosman +4

Here we report the spectroscopic and geometric confirmation of an extremely bright ($i=14.77$) and compact (Einstein radius of $\sim 0.45^{\prime \prime }$) quadruply-lensed quasar at $z=2.22$, J1…