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Time-Delay Cosmography is a technique for measuring $H_0$ with strong gravitational lensing. It requires a correction for line of sight perturbations, and it is necessary to build tools to assess populations of these lines of sight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Patrick R. Wells , Christopher D. Fassnacht , Simon Birrer , Devon Williams

In recent years, the availability of large, complete cluster samples has enabled numerous cosmological parameter inference analyses using cluster number counts. These have provided constraints on the cosmic matter density $\Omega_m$ and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-23 P. S. Corasaniti , M. Sereno , S. Ettori

Galaxy-galaxy lensing measures the mean excess surface density DS(r) around a sample of lensing galaxies. We develop a method for combining DS(r) with the galaxy correlation function xi_gg(r) to constrain Omega_m and sigma_8, going beyond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jaiyul Yoo , Jeremy L. Tinker , David H. Weinberg , Zheng Zheng , Neal Katz , Romeel Davé

Time-delay cosmography can be used to infer the Hubble parameter $H_0$ by measuring the relative time delays between multiple images of gravitationally-lensed quasars. A few of such systems have already been used to measure $H_0$: their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 L. Biggio , A. Domi , S. Tosi , G. Vernardos , D. Ricci , L. Paganin , G. Bracco

We study the effect of the cosmological constant on the statistical properties of gravitational lenses in flat cosmologies (Omega_{0}+lambda_{0} = 1). It is shown that some of the lens observables are strongly affected by the cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Deepak Jain , N. Panchapakesan , S. Mahajan , V. B. Bhatia

Strongly lensed quasar systems with time delay measurements provide "time delay distances", which are a combination of three angular diameter distances and serve as powerful tools to determine the Hubble constant $H_0$. However, current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 Kai Liao , Arman Shafieloo , Ryan E. Keeley , Eric V. Linder

Time delays between multiple images of lensed sources can probe the geometry of the universe. We propose a novel method based on free-form modelling of gravitational lenses to estimate time-delay distances and, in turn, cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Mauro Sereno , Danuta Paraficz

Strong gravitational lensing has been a powerful probe of cosmological models and gravity. To date, constraints in either domain have been obtained separately. We propose a new methodology through which the cosmological model, specifically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Tao Yang , Simon Birrer , Bin Hu

We present constraints on the cosmological constant lambda_0 and the density parameter Omega_0 from joint constraints from the analyses of gravitational lensing statistics of the Jodrell Bank-VLA Astrometric Survey (JVAS), optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. F. Macias-Perez , P. Helbig , R. Quast , A. Wilkinson , R. D. Davies

High-precision cosmological probes have revealed a small but significant tension between the parameters measured with different techniques, among which there is one based on time delays in gravitational lenses. We discuss a new way of using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-18 O. Wucknitz , L. G. Spitler , U. -L. Pen

We predict cosmological constraints for forthcoming surveys using Superluminous Supernovae (SLSNe) as standardisable candles. Due to their high peak luminosity, these events can be observed to high redshift (z~3), opening up new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Dario Scovacricchi , Robert C. Nichol , David Bacon , Mark Sullivan , Szymon Prajs

We present constraints on cosmic structure growth from the analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing with galaxies from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1. We analyze four samples drawn from the…

Strong gravitational lensing of variable sources, such as quasars or supernovae, can be used to constrain cosmological parameters through a technique known as "time-delay cosmography''. Competitive constraints on the Hubble constant have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Simon Birrer , Graham P. Smith , Anowar J. Shajib , Dan Ryczanowski , Nikki Arendse

Measurements of The Hubble-Lemaitre constant from early- and local-universe observations show a significant discrepancy. In an attempt to understand the origin of this mismatch, independent techniques to measure H0 are required. One such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Nan Li , Christoph Becker , Simon Dye

Accurate and precise measurements of the Hubble constant are critical for testing our current standard cosmological model and revealing possibly new physics. With Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging, each strong gravitational lens system…

Gravitational time delays offer unique, independent measurements of the Hubble constant, $H_0$. Precise measurements of $H_0$ stand as one of the most pressing challenges in modern cosmology, and to do so with time delays requires precise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 D. M. Williams , T. Treu , S. Birrer , A. J. Shajib , K. C. Wong , T. Morishita , T. Schmidt , M. Stiavelli

Strong gravitational lensing provides an independent and powerful probe of cosmic expansion by directly linking observables to cosmological distances. Upcoming surveys such as LSST will discover large number of galaxy-galaxy strong lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Shuaibo Geng , Shuo Cao , Marek Biesiada , Xinyue Jiang , Yalong Nan , Chenfa Zheng

Applying the distance sum rule in strong gravitational lensing (SGL) and type Ia supernova (SN Ia) observations, one can provide an interesting cosmological model-independent method to determine the cosmic curvature parameter $\Omega_k$. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-31 Bo Wang , Jing-Zhao Qi , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We develop a novel statistical strong lensing approach to probe the cosmological parameters by exploiting multiple redshift image systems behind galaxies or galaxy clusters. The method relies on free-form mass inversion of strong lenses and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Lubini , M. Sereno , J. Coles , Ph. Jetzer , P. Saha

We present a simple and promising new method to measure the expansion rate and the geometry of the universe that combines observations related to the time delays between the multiple images of time-varying sources, strongly lensed by galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 A. Acebron , S. Schuldt , C. Grillo , P. Bergamini , G. Granata , U. Mestric , G. B. Caminha , M. Meneghetti , A. Mercurio , P. Rosati , S. H. Suyu , E. Vanzella