Oxford University Press (OUP), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020
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Abstract We report the serendipitous discovery of HSC J0904–0102, a quadruply-lensed Lyman break galaxy (LBG) in the Survey of Gravitationally-lensed Objects in Hyper Suprime-Cam Imaging (SuGOHI). Owing to its point-like appearance, the source was thought to be a lensed active galactic nucleus. We obtained follow-up spectroscopic data with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrographs on the Gemini South Telescope, which confirmed this to be a lens system. The deflecting foreground galaxy is a typical early-type galaxy at a high redshift of zℓ = 0.957 with stellar velocity dispersion σv = 259 ± 56 km s−1. The lensed source is identified as an LBG at zs = 3.403, based on the sharp drop bluewards of Lyα and other absorption features. A simple lens mass model for the system, assuming a singular isothermal ellipsoid, yields an Einstein radius of θEin = 1.23″ and a total mass within the Einstein radius of MEin = (5.55 ± 0.24) × 1011M⊙ corresponding to a velocity dispersion of σSIE = 283 ± 3 km s−1, which is in good agreement with the value derived spectroscopically. The most isolated lensed LBG image has a magnification of ∼6.5. In comparison with other lensed LBGs and typical z ∼ 4 LBG populations, HSC J0904–0102 is unusually compact, an outlier at >2σ confidence. Together with a previously discovered SuGOHI lens, HSC J1152+0047, that is similarly compact, we believe that the HSC Survey is extending LBG studies down to smaller galaxy sizes.