COSMOGRAIL: The cosmological monitoring of gravitational lenses: I. How to sample the light curves of gravitationally lensed quasars to measure accurate time delays

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 436, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-35

  Eigenbrod, A ^a   Courbin, F ^a   Vuissoz, C ^a   Meylan, G ^a   Saha, P ^b   Dye, S ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmological parameters; Cosmology: observations; Gravitational lensing

Indexed keywords

LENSES; MONITORING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; COSMOLOGY: OBSERVATIONS; GRAVITATIONAL LENSING;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 24644479064     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20042422     Document Type: Article

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