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We investigate the possibility of measuring the Hubble constant, the fractional energy density components and the equation of state parameter of the ``dark energy'' using lensed multiple images of high-redshift supernovae. With future…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Goobar , E. Mortsell , R. Amanullah , P. Nugent

We present a self-consistent and versatile forward modelling software package that can produce time series and pixel-level simulations of time-varying strongly lensed systems. The time dimension, which needs to take into account different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Georgios Vernardos

The goal of this work is to obtain a Hubble constant estimate through the study of the quadruply lensed, variable QSO SDSSJ1433+6007. To achieve this we combine multi-filter, archival $\textit{HST}$ data for lens modelling and a dedicated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 G. Queirolo , S. Seitz , A. Riffeser , M. Kluge , R. Bender , C. Gössl , U. Hopp , C. Ries , M. Schmidt , R. Zöller

Multiply-imaged supernovae (SNe) provide a novel means of constraining the Hubble constant ($H_0$). Such measurements require a combination of precise models of the lensing mass distribution and an accurate estimate of the relative time…

Based on spectroscopy and multiband wide-field observations of the gravitationally lensed quasar HE 0435-1223, we determine the probability distribution function of the external convergence $\kappa_\mathrm{ext}$ for this system. We measure…

The largest source of uncertainty in the determination of H_0 from a multiply-imaged QSO system is the unknown mass distribution in the lensing galaxy. Parametric models severely restrict the shape of the galaxy thereby underestimating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Liliya L. R. Williams , Prasenjit Saha

Strong gravitational lensing time-delay measurements, together with the distance sum rule (DSR), offer a model-independent approach to probe the geometry and expansion of the universe without relying on a fiducial cosmological model. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Darshan Kumar , Deepak Jain , Shobhit Mahajan

Bayesian model selection methods provide a self-consistent probabilistic framework to test the validity of competing scenarios given a set of data. We present a case study application to strong gravitational lens parametric models. Our goal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-22 Irène Balmès , Pier-Stefano Corasaniti

The measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$ plays a central role in modern cosmology. In this work, we investigate the potential of strongly lensed gravitational-wave (SLGW) signals from massive binary black hole mergers to constrain $H_0$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Yong Yuan , Minghui Du , Wen-Fan Feng , Benyang Zhu , Qing Diao , Peng Xu , Xilong Fan

Remarkable development of cosmology is benefited from the increasingly improved measurements of cosmic distances including absolute distances and relative distances. In recent years, however, the emerged cosmological tensions motivate us to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-21 Jing-Zhao Qi , Wei-Hong Hu , Yu Cui , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We present the first determination of the Hubble constant $H_0$ from strong lensing time delay data and type Ia supernova luminosity distances that is independent of the cosmological model. We also determine the spatial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-03 Thomas Collett , Francesco Montanari , Syksy Rasanen

An attempt to measure the Hubble constant with gravitational lens time delays is often limited by the strong degeneracy between radial mass profiles of lens galaxies and the Hubble constant. We show that strong gravitational lensing of type…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masamune Oguri , Yozo Kawano

We use strongly gravitationally lensed (SGL) systems to put additional constraints on a set of holographic dark energy models. Data available in the literature (redshift and velocity dispersion) is used to obtain the Einstein radius and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Victor H. Cardenas , Alexander Bonilla , Veronica Motta , Sergio del Campo

The distribution of differential time delays \Delta t between images produced by strong gravitational lensing contains information on the mass distributions in the lensing objects as well as on cosmological parameters such as H_0. We derive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masamune Oguri , Atsushi Taruya , Yasushi Suto , Edwin L. Turner

We proposed a model-independent method to constrain the cosmological parameters using the Distance Sum Rule of the FLRW metric by combining the time delay distances and the comoving distances through a multi-messenger approach. The time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Yufeng Li , Xilong Fan , Lijun Gou

We present six new time-delay measurements obtained from $R_c$-band monitoring data acquired at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPIA) 2.2 m telescope at La Silla observatory between October 2016 and February 2020. The lensed…

The largest source of systematic errors in the time-delay cosmography method likely arises from the lens model mass distribution, where an inaccurate choice of model could in principle bias the value of $H_0$. A Bayesian hierarchical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Matthew R. Gomer , Dominique Sluse , Lyne Van de Vyvere , Simon Birrer , Frederic Courbin

As one of the probes of universe, strong gravitational lensing systems allow us to compare different cosmological models and constrain vital cosmological parameters. This purpose can be reached from the dynamic and geometry properties of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 C. C. Yuan , F. Y. Wang

A small fraction of gravitational-wave (GW) signals from binary black holes (BBHs) will be gravitationally lensed by intervening galaxies and galaxy clusters. Strong lensing will produce multiple identical copies of the GW signal arriving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Koustav N. Maity , Souvik Jana , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Ankur Barsode , Parameswaran Ajith