Abstract
We report the serendipitous discovery of a quadruply-lensed source behind the z=0.095 edge-on disk galaxy 2MASXJ13170000-1405187, based on public imaging survey data from Pan-STARRS PS1 and the VISTA Hemisphere Survey. Follow-up imaging from Magellan/LDSS3 shows that the background source is spatially extended (i.e. not a QSO), and that two of the lensed images are observed through a prominent dust ring in the disk of the lens galaxy. We summarise results of preliminary modelling, which indicates an Einstein radius of 1.44 arcsec, and a K-band mass-to-light ratio of 0.5, relative to the solar value.
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