Measuring H₀ with CLASS B1608+656: The Second Season of VLA Monitoring
Fassnacht, C. D. · Xanthopoulos, E. · Koopmans, L. V. E. · Pearson, T. J. · Readhead, A. C. S. · Myers, S. T.
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The four-component gravitational lens CLASS B1608+656 has been monitored with the VLA for two seasons in order to search for time delays between the components. These time delays can be combined with mass models of the lens system to yield a measurement of H₀. The component light curves show significantly different behavior in the two observing seasons. In the first season the light curves have maximum variations of 5%, while in the second season the components experienced a nearly monotonic 40% decrease in flux. We present the time delays derived from a joint analysis of the light curves from the two seasons.
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