View source for CLASS B1359+154

{{Short description|Quasar in the constellation Boötes}}
{{Quasar
| name=CLASS B1359+154
| image=
| caption=
| epoch=[[J2000]]
| ra={{RA|14|01|35.60}}<ref name="apj121">{{cite journal
  | title=Quasars in the 2MASS Second Incremental Data 
  |author1=Barkhouse, Wayne A. |author2=Hall, Patrick B. | journal=The Astronomical Journal | volume=121
  | issue=5 | pages=2843–2850 |date=May 2001
  | doi=10.1086/320377 | bibcode=2001AJ....121.2843B|arxiv = astro-ph/0101270 |s2cid=15464856 }}</ref>
| dec={{DEC|+15|13|25.0}}<ref name="apj121" />
| constellation name=[[Boötes]]
| z=3.235<ref name="apj121" />
| type=
| dist_ly= 
| appmag_v=21.9
| size_v= 
| notes=Six-image lens, noted [MRF99] [[CLASS B1359+154 A]], A to F
| names=QSO B1359+154
}}
'''CLASS B1359+154''' is a [[quasar]], or quasi-stellar object, that has a [[redshift]] of 3.235. A group of three foreground galaxies at a redshift of about 1 are behaving as [[gravitational lens]]es. The result is a rare example of a sixfold multiply imaged quasar.<ref>{{cite journal
  | author=Rusin, D. |date=August 2001
  | title=B1359+154: A Six-Image Lens Produced by a z ~= 1 Compact Group of Galaxies
  | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=557
  | issue=2 | pages=594–604 
  | doi=10.1086/322251 | bibcode=2001ApJ...557..594R|arxiv = astro-ph/0011505 |s2cid=119470100
 |display-authors=etal}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Twin Quasar]]
* [[Einstein Cross]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://simbad3.u-strasbg.fr/sim-id.pl?protocol=html&Ident=CLASS%20B1359%2B154 Simbad data on QSO B1359+154]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* [http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinPreview?-c=14+01+35.60%2B15+13+25.0&ident=QSO+B1359%2B154&submit=Aladin+previewer Image QSO B1359+154]
* [http://www.nrao.edu/imagegallery/php/level3.php?id=279 Six-Image CLASS Gravitational Lens]
* [http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=QSO+B1359%2B154&NbIdent=1&Radius=2&Radius.unit=arcmin&submit=submit+id SIMBAD data]

{{Stars of Boötes}}

[[Category:Gravitationally lensed quasars]]
[[Category:Gravitational lensing]]
[[Category:Boötes]]


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