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The GLITP collaboration observed the first gravitational lens system (QSO 0957+561) from 2000 February 3 to 2000 March 31. The daily VR observations were made with the 2.56-m Nordic Optical Telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory,…

We present the results of a program to monitor the four-image gravitational lens B1608+656 with the VLA. The system was observed over a seven month period from 1996 October to 1997 May. The 64 epochs of observation have an average spacing…

The measurement of continuum time lags in lensed quasars can effectively probe the accretion physics of quasars. This is because microlensing observations of lensed quasars can provide constraints on the half-light radii of quasar accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-24 Marcin Marculewicz , Mouyuan Sun , Zhixiang Zhang , Tuan Yi

We test the robustness of published time delays for 11 lensed quasars by using two techniques to measure time shifts in their light curves. We chose to use two fundamentally different techniques to determine time delays in gravitationally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-26 Eva Eulaers , Pierre Magain

We present three complete seasons and two half-seasons of SDSS r-band photometry of the gravitationally lensed quasar SBS 0909+532 from the U.S. Naval Observatory, as well as two seasons each of SDSS g-band and r-band monitoring from the…

We present evidence for ultraviolet/optical microlensing in the gravitationally lensed quasar Q0957+561. We combine new measurements from our optical monitoring campaign at the United States Naval Observatory, Flagstaff (USNO) with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Laura J. Hainline , Christopher W. Morgan , J. N. Beach , C. S. Kochanek , Hugh C. Harris , T. Tilleman , Ross Fadely , Emilio E. Falco , T. X. Le

This paper presents optical R-band light curves and the time delay of the doubly imaged gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1001+5027 at a redshift of 1.838. We have observed this target for more than six years, between March 2005 and July…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-29 S. Rathna Kumar , M. Tewes , C. S. Stalin , F. Courbin , I. Asfandiyarov , G. Meylan , E. Eulaers , T. P. Prabhu , P. Magain , H. Van Winckel , Sh. Ehgamberdiev

We report new estimates of the time delays in the quadruple gravitationally lensed quasar PG1115+080, obtained from the monitoring data in filter R with the 1.5-m telescope at the Maidanak Mountain (Uzbekistan, Central Asia) in 2004-2006.…

We present six new time-delay measurements obtained from $R_c$-band monitoring data acquired at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPIA) 2.2 m telescope at La Silla observatory between October 2016 and February 2020. The lensed…

The importance of alternative methods for measuring the Hubble constant, such as time-delay cosmography, is highlighted by the recent Hubble tension. It is paramount to thoroughly investigate and rule out systematic biases in all…

We present optical V and i-band light curves of the gravitationally lensed BAL quasar HE2149-2745. The data, obtained with the 1.5m Danish Telescope (ESO-La Silla) between October 1998 and December 2000, are the first from a long-term…

Aims. Within the framework of the COSMOGRAIL collaboration we present 7- and 8.5-year-long light curves and time-delay estimates for two gravitationally lensed quasars: SDSS J1206+4332 and HS 2209+1914. Methods. We monitored these doubly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 E. Eulaers , M. Tewes , P. Magain , F. Courbin , I. Asfandiyarov , Sh. Ehgamberdiev , S. Rathna Kumar , C. S. Stalin , T. P. Prabhu , G. Meylan , H. Van Winckel

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

We combine all published NIR and optical photometrical observations of NGC 4151 as well as our new unpublished yet data which can be used for determination of time delays between optical and NIR variations. Before we have found change of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. L. Oknyanskij , V. M. Lyuty , O. G. Taranova , V. I. Shenavrin

We present results of the long term monitoring of the gravitationally lensed quasar HE1104-1805. The photometric data were collected between August 1997 and January 2002 as a subproject of the OGLE survey. We determine the time delay in the…

The observable time delays between the multiple images of strong lensing systems with time variable sources can provide us with some valuable information to probe the expansion history of the Universe. Estimation of these time delays can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Amir Aghamousa , Arman Shafieloo

We present a new method of discovering galaxy-scale, strongly-lensed QSO systems from unresolved light curves using the autocorrelation function. The method is tested on five rungs of simulated light curves from the Time Delay Challenge 1…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Yiping Shu , Vasily Belokurov , N. Wyn Evans

We present twelve years of monitoring of the gravitational lens Q0142-100 from the Teide Observatory. The data, taken from 1999 to 2010, comprise 105 observing nights with the IAC80 telescope. The application of the delta2-method to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Oscoz , M. Serra-Ricart , E. Mediavilla , J. A. Muñoz

The gravitational lens CLASS B1608+656 is the only four-image lens system for which all three independent time delays have been measured. This makes the system an excellent candidate for a high-quality determination of H_0 at cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. D. Fassnacht , E. Xanthopoulos , L. V. E. Koopmans , D. Rusin

We present a new determination of the time delay of the gravitational lens system HE1104-1805 ('Double Hamburger') based on a previously unpublished dataset. We argue that the previously published value of dt_(A-B)=0.73 years was affected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Gil-Merino , L. Wisotzki , J. Wambsganss