The radio field around the EGRET source 2EG shows, once the
galactic disk radiation has been properly subtracted, several sources, mainly
SNRs. Three of these remnants are reported for first time in this paper. The
only strong radio source within the 95% source location confidence contour of
2EG
is the flat-spectrum, gravitational lensed QSO PKS
1830-211. Our observations clearly dismiss the possibility that one of
the previously unknown SNRs could be the radio counterpart of the
-ray source, strengthening the identification with the lensed
blazar proposed by Mattox et al. (1997). Additional support is
provided by the spectrum analysis of 2EG
which presents a
steep index
and by the presence of variability in
the
-ray light curve. PKS 1830-211 seems to be, consequently, the
first well-resolved gravitational lensed object detected by EGRET.
Acknowledgements
We thank E. Hurrel for assistance during the observations and an anonymous referee for call our attention to Mattox et al. (1997) paper, which was published after this work was completed. G.E.R is grateful to the IAG group of radioastronomy for assistance during the preparation of this paper. This work has been supported by the brazilian agency FAPESP and the argentine agency CONICET. Additional support from the University of La Plata (UNLP) and Grant PMT-PICT 0388 from ANPCT is also gratefully acknowledged.