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Strong lensing time-delay cosmography in the 2020s

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-12-07 v1

Abstract

Multiply imaged time-variable sources can be used to measure absolute distances as a function of redshifts and thus determine cosmological parameters, chiefly the Hubble Constant H0_0. In the two decades up to 2020, through a number of observational and conceptual breakthroughs, this so-called time-delay cosmography has reached a precision sufficient to be an important independent voice in the current ``Hubble tension'' debate between early- and late-universe determinations of H0_0. The 2020s promise to deliver major advances in time-delay cosmography, owing to the large number of lenses to be discovered by new and upcoming surveys and the vastly improved capabilities for follow-up and analysis. In this review -- after a brief summary of the foundations of the method and recent advances -- we outline the opportunities for the decade and the challenges that will need to be overcome in order to meet the goal of the determination of H0_0 from time-delay cosmography with 1\% precision and accuracy.

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@article{arxiv.2210.15794,
  title  = {Strong lensing time-delay cosmography in the 2020s},
  author = {T. Treu and S. H. Suyu and P. J. Marshall},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.15794},
  year   = {2022}
}

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The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, in press

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