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We analyze all publicly available long-term optical observations of the gravitationally lensed quasar PG1115+080 for the purpose of estimating time delays between its four components. In particular, the light curves of PG1115+080 components…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-10 E. Shimanovskaya , V. Oknyansky , B. Artamonov

We report the results of our multicolor observations of PG 1115+080 with the 1.5-m telescope of the Maidanak Observatory (Uzbekistan, Central Asia) in 2001-2006. Monitoring data in filter R spanning the 2004, 2005 and 2006 seasons (76 data…

We present time-delay estimates for the quadruply imaged quasar PG 1115+080. Our resuls are based on almost daily observations for seven months at the ESO MPIA 2.2m telescope at La Silla Observatory, reaching a signal-to-noise ratio of…

Aims: Our aim is to measure the time delay between the two gravitationally lensed images of the z = 1.547 quasar SDSS J1650+4251, in order to estimate the Hubble constant H_0. Methods: Our measurement is based on R-band light curves with 57…

We have measured the time delay between the two images of the gravitationally lensed quasar HE1104-1805 by combining observations made with the Wise Observatory 1m telescope and published observations of this system by Schechter et al.,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eran O. Ofek , Dan Maoz

We present the results of a monitoring campaign of the double quasar SBS1520+530 at Maidanak observatory from April 2003 to August 2004. We obtained light curves in V and R filters that show small-amplitude \Delta m~0.1 mag intrinsic…

We present 426 epochs of optical monitoring data spanning 1000 days from December 2003 to June 2006 for the gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112. The time delay between the A and B images is 38.4+/-2.0 days in the expected sense…

We report first results from an ongoing monitoring campaign to measure time delays between the six images of the quasar SDSS\,J2222$+$2745, gravitationally lensed by a galaxy cluster. The time delay between A and B, the two most highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 H. Dahle , M. D. Gladders , K. Sharon , M. B. Bayliss , J. R. Rigby

We present optical lightcurves of the gravitationally lensed components A (=A1+A2+A3) and B of the quadruple quasar RX J0911.4+0551 (z = 2.80). The observations were primarily obtained at the Nordic Optical Telescope between 1997 March and…

We present a new method for determining time delays among the light curves of various images in a gravitational lens. The method is based on constructing a simple model for the source variation and forming a chi squared measure of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Rennan Barkana

The quadruple quasar H1413+117 (z_s = 2.56) has been monitored with the 2.0 m Liverpool Telescope in the r Sloan band from 2008 February to July. This optical follow-up leads to accurate light curves of the four quasar images (A-D), which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Luis J. Goicoechea , Vyacheslav N. Shalyapin

We have measured the three time delays for the quadruple gravitational lens RX J1131-1231 using two seasons of monitoring data. The short delays between cusp images are A-B = 11.98 +1.52,-1.27 days and A-C = 9.61 +1.97,-1.57 days. The long…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicholas D. Morgan , Christopher S. Kochanek , Emilio E. Falco , Xinyu Dai

Optical photometry is presented for the quadruple gravitational lens PG1115+080. A preliminary reduction of data taken from November 1995 to June 1996 gives component ``C'' leading component ``B'' by 23.7+/-3.4 days and components ``A1''…

We present new light curves for the four bright images of the five image cluster-lensed quasar gravitational lens system SDSS~J1004+4112. The light curves span 14.5 yr and allow measurement of the time delay between the trailing bright…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-28 J. A. Muñoz , C. S. Kochanek , J. Fohlmeister , J. Wambsganss , E. Falco , R. Forés-Toribio

We present 279 epochs of optical monitoring data spanning 5.4 years from 2007 January to 2012 June for the largest image separation (22.6 arcsec) gravitationally lensed quasar, SDSS J1029+2623. We find that image A leads the images B and C…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-08 Janine Fohlmeister , Christopher S. Kochanek , Emilio E. Falco , Joachim Wambsganss , Masamune Oguri , Xinyu Dai

Time delay measurements have recently been reported for the lensed quasar PG 1115+080. These measurements can be used to derive Ho, but only if we can constrain the lensing potential. We have applied a recently developed deconvolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 F. Courbin , P. Magain , C. R. Keeton , C. S. Kochanek , C. Vanderriest , A. O. Jaunsen , J. Hjorth

We study brightness variations in the double lensed quasar UM673 (Q0142-100) with the aim of measuring the time delay between its two images. In the paper we combine our previously published observational data of UM673 obtained during the…

We present a short re-evaluation of a recently published time delay estimate for the gravitational lens system HE 1104-1805 with emphasis on important methodological aspects: bias of the statistics, inconsistency of the methods and use of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Pelt , S. Refsdal , R. Stabell

We present optical R-band light curves of the gravitationally lensed quasar SBS1520+530 derived from data obtained at the Nordic Optical Telescope. A time delay of 130+/-3 days (1 sigma) is determined from the light curves. In addition,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Burud , J. Hjorth , F. Courbin , J. G. Cohen , P. Magain , A. O. Jaunsen , A. A. Kaas , C. Faure , G. Letawe

We present a new analysis of previously published optical and radio data sets of the gravitationally lensed quasar 0957+561 A,B with the aim of determining the time delay between its two images. We use a non-parametric estimate of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Pelt , W. Hoff , R. Kayser , S. Refsdal , T. Schramm
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