Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
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Result of query: info cati LAM2018]$

Details on Acronym:   [LAM2018]
  
[LAM2018] (Lemon+Auger+McMahon+, 2018)
Write:<<[LAM2018] JHHMM+DDMM>>
<<[LAM2018] JHHMM+DDMM source>>
<<[LAM2018] JHHMM+DDMM A>>
N: 60+34+76
Object:Poss. Grav. lens system + QSO + Grav. lensed image of a QSO + Grav. lens
  (SIMBAD class: Unknown = Object of Unknown Nature)
Note:N=60 gravitational lens system candidates, selected in the Pan-STARRS footprint with quasar-like WISE colours or as photometric quasars from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), requiring either multiple detections in Gaia or a single Gaia detection near a morphological galaxy.
N=10 nearly-identical quasars. N=24 gravitationally lensed quasars, N=52 gravitationally lensed images of quasars, and N=24 gravitational lenses, in 24 confirmed gravitational systems.
Ref:=2018MNRAS.479.5060L
byLEMON C.A. , AUGER M.W., McMAHON R.G., OSTROVSKI F.
 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 479, 5060-5074 (2018)
  Gravitationally lensed quasars in Gaia - II. Discovery of 24 lensed quasars.
oTable 2: <[LAM2018] JHHMM+DDMM> N=60. Figs 1+3, Tables 3+4: <[LAM2018] JHHMM+DDMM source> N=24+10. Fig. 5, Table A1: <[LAM2018] JHHMM+DDMM A> N=76.
Originof the Acronym: S = Created by Simbad, the CDS Database