LensClean and the Hubble constant from the gravitational lens B0218+357

Talk (Sonderkolloquium) at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy / University of Bonn, 5. October 2004

O. Wucknitz [1]

  1. Institut für Physik, Universität Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais, D-14469 Potsdam, Germany

Abstract

B0218+357 is one of the best candidates to determine the Hubble constant from the time delay of a gravitational lens, if -- but only if -- all the available data are used as constraints for the mass models. Our work for the first time utilizes the structure of the nice Einstein ring in this system in order to determine the position of the lens. In this talk I review the published results and present a preliminary analysis of a new data set taken with the VLA + Pie Town, which has the potential to reduce the uncertainties dramatically. A further result is the first reconstruction of the polarization structure of the source.

Find more information about the topic in Paper I, Paper II, and my PhD thesis.




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