COSMOGRAIL: the COSmological MOnitoring of GRAvItational Lenses

F. Courbin; A. Eigenbrod; C. Vuissoz; G. Meylan; P. Magain

doi:10.1017/S1743921305002097

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We describe a new project aiming at measuring time delays for most known lensed quasars, from optical light curves obtained with five (almost) dedicated 1-2 m telescopes in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The goal is to evaluate the Hubble constant H$_0$ with a precision below 2%. We present here numerical simulations in order to define the optimal temporal sampling in our observations as a function of typical quasar variations, object visibility, and for a given accuracy on the individual photometric points. It is also emphasized that the ongoing effort to obtain deep imaging using both space and ground based facilities must be continued, as illustrated by the comparison of HST and VLT near-IR images of the “cloverleaf”: H 1413+117.To search for other articles by the author(s) go to: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

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