The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. II. Statistical Lens Sample from the Third Data Release
Naohisa Inada, Masamune Oguri, Robert H. Becker, Min-Su Shin, Gordon, T. Richards, Joseph F. Hennawi, Richard L. White, Bartosz Pindor, Michael A., Strauss, Christopher S. Kochanek, David E. Johnston, Michael D. Gregg, Issha, Kayo, Daniel Eisenstein, Patrick B. Hall

TL;DR
This paper presents a systematic search for strongly lensed quasars in SDSS Data Release 3, constructing a statistical sample of 11 lenses, including galaxy- and cluster-scale systems, through extensive follow-up observations.
Contribution
It introduces a complete statistical sample of lensed quasars from SDSS DR3, combining galaxy- and cluster-scale lenses, and details the selection and follow-up process.
Findings
Constructed a statistical sample of 11 lensed quasars.
Identified both galaxy- and cluster-scale lens systems.
Provided the first comprehensive statistical lens sample from SDSS.
Abstract
We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420 quasars from the SDSS Data Release 3 (~4188 deg^2), we select a subsample of 22,683 quasars that are located at redshifts between 0.6 and 2.2 and are brighter than the Galactic extinction corrected i-band magnitude of 19.1. We identify 220 lens candidates from the quasar subsample, for which we conduct extensive and systematic follow-up observations in optical and near-infrared wavebands, in order to construct a complete lensed quasar sample at image separations between 1'' and 20'' and flux ratios of faint to bright lensed images larger than 10^{-0.5}. We construct a statistical sample of 11 lensed quasars. Ten of these are galaxy-scale lenses with small image separations (~1''-2'') and one is a large…
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