@article{10902/31397,
year = {2023},
month = {9},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10902/31397},
abstract = {The gravitational lens system PS J0147+4630 (Andromeda's Parachute) consists of four quasar images ABCD and a lensing galaxy. We obtained r-band light curves of ABCD in the 2017−2022 period from monitoring with two 2 m class telescopes. Applying state-of-the-art curve-shifting algorithms to these light curves led to measurements of time delays between images, and the three independent delays relative to image D are accurate enough to be used in cosmological studies (uncertainty of about 4%): ΔtAD = −170.5 ± 7.0, ΔtBD = −170.4 ± 6.0, and ΔtCD = −177.0 ± 6.5 days, where image D is trailing all the other images. Our finely sampled light curves and some additional fluxes in the years 2010−2013 also demonstrated the presence of significant microlensing variations. From the measured delays relative to image D and typical values of the external convergence, recent lens mass models yielded a Hubble constant that is in clear disagreement with currently accepted values around 70 km s−1 Mpc−1. We discuss how to account for a standard value of the Hubble constant without invoking the presence of an extraordinary high external convergence.},
organization = {V.N.S. would like to thank the Universidad de Cantabria (UC) and the Spanish AEI for financial support for a long stay at the UC in the period 2022–2023. H.D. acknowledges support from the Research Council of Norway. This research has been supported by the grant PID2020-118990GB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.},
publisher = {Institute of Physics Publishing},
publisher = {The Astrophysical Journal, 2023, 955(2), 140},
title = {Andromeda's Parachute: Time Delays and Hubble Constant},
author = {Shalyapin, Vyacheslav and Goicoechea Santamaría, Luis Julián and Dyrland, Karianee and Dahle, Hakon},
}