A determination of H0 with the CLASS gravitational lens B1608+656. III. A significant improvement in the precision of the time delay measurements

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 581, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 823-835

  Fassnacht, C D ^a,b   Xanthopoulos, E ^c   Koopmans, L V E ^d   Rusin, D ^e  

^a AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance scale; Gravitational lensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042232162     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/344368     Document Type: Article

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