Zusammenfassung
We present the final statistical sample of lensed quasars from the Sloan
Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search (SQLS). The well-defined
statistical lens sample consists of 26 lensed quasars brighter than i=19.1 and
in the redshift range of 0.6<z<2.2 selected from 50,826 spectroscopically
confirmed quasars in the SDSS Data Release 7 (DR7), where we restrict the image
separation range to 1"<þeta<20" and the i-band magnitude differences in two
image lenses to be smaller than 1.25 mag. The SDSS DR7 quasar catalog also
contains 36 additional lenses identified with various techniques. In addition
to these lensed quasars, we have identified 81 pairs of quasars from follow-up
spectroscopy, 26 of which are physically associated binary quasars. The
statistical lens sample covers a wide range of image separations, redshifts,
and magnitudes, and therefore is suitable for systematic studies of
cosmological parameters and surveys of the structure and evolution of galaxies
and quasars.
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