R-band light curves of PG 1115+080

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We present time-delay estimates for the quadruply imaged quasar PG 1115+080. Our results are based on almost daily observations for seven months at the ESO MPIA 2.2m telescope at La Silla Observatory, reaching a signal-to-noise ratio of about 1000 per quasar image. In addition, we re-analyze existing light curves from the literature that we complete with an additional three seasons of monitoring with the Mercator telescope at La Palma Observatory. When exploring the possible source of bias we considered the so-called microlensing time delay, a potential source of systematic error so far never directly accounted for in previous time-delay publications. In fifteen years of data on PG 1115+080, we find no strong evidence of microlensing time delay. Therefore not accounting for this effect, our time-delay estimates on the individual data sets are in good agreement with each other and with the literature.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.36160183
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Creator Bonvin V.; Chan J.H.H.; Millon M.; Rojas K.; Courbin F.; Chen G.C.-F.,Fassnacht C.D.; Paic E.; Tewes M.; Chao D.C.-Y.; Chijani M.; Gilman D.,Gilmore K.; Williams P.; Buckley-Geer E.; Frieman J.; Marshall P.J.,Suyu S.H.; Treu T.; Hempel A.; Kim S.; Lachaume R.; Rabus M.; Anguita T.,Meylan G.; Motta V.; Magain P.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2018
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysical Processes; Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; High Energy Astrophysics; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy