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We determine the Hubble constant $H_0$ precisely ($2.3\%$ uncertainty) in a manner independent of cosmological model through Gaussian process regression, using strong lensing and supernova data. Strong gravitational lensing of a variable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-08 Kai Liao , Arman Shafieloo , Ryan E. Keeley , Eric V. Linder

Strong gravitational lens systems with measured time delays between the multiple images provide a method for measuring the "time-delay distance" to the lens, and thus the Hubble constant. We present a Bayesian analysis of the strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-08 S. H. Suyu , P. J. Marshall , M. W. Auger , S. Hilbert , R. D. Blandford , L. V. E. Koopmans , C. D. Fassnacht , T. Treu

We present the results from nine years of optically monitoring the gravitationally lensed z=0.658 quasar RX J1131-1231. The R-band light curves of the four individual images of the quasar were obtained using deconvolution photometry for a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Tewes , F. Courbin , G. Meylan , C. S. Kochanek , E. Eulaers , N. Cantale , A. M. Mosquera , P. Magain , H. Van Winckel , D. Sluse , G. Cataldi , D. Voros , S. Dye

We analyze gravitational lensing in a matched Kottler spacetime with cosmological constant $\Lambda$, where a uniform-density fluid sphere described by the interior Kottler solution is smoothly joined to the exterior Kottler region. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Mourad Guenouche

Strongly lensed type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are expected to have some advantages in measuring time delays of multiple images, and so they have a great potential to be developed into a powerful late-universe cosmological probe. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 Jing-Zhao Qi , Yu Cui , Wei-Hong Hu , Jing-Fei Zhang , Jing-Lei Cui , Xin Zhang

This study introduces an innovative framework aimed at overcoming the ongoing issue of mass-sheet degeneracy (MSD) in time-delay cosmography by incorporating observations of both gravitationally lensed and unlensed Type Ia supernovae (SNe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Xiaolei Li , Kai Liao , Xuheng Ding

Strong lensing has developed into an important astrophysical tool for probing both cosmology and galaxies (their structure, formation, and evolution). Using the gravitational lensing theory and cluster mass distribution model, we try to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shuo Cao , Yu Pan , Marek Biesiada , Wlodzimierz Godlowski , Zong-Hong Zhu

Gravitationally lensed Type Ia supernovae may be the next frontier in cosmic probes, able to deliver independent constraints on dark energy, spatial curvature, and the Hubble constant. Measurements of time delays between the multiple images…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-06 Satadru Bag , Alex G. Kim , Eric V. Linder , Arman Shafieloo

A method for determining the time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars is proposed, which offers a simple and transparent procedure to mitigate the effects of microlensing. The method is based on fundamental properties of representation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-09 V. S. Tsvetkova , V. M. Shulga , L. A. Berdina

Strongly lensed quasars can provide measurements of the Hubble constant ($H_{0}$) independent of any other methods. One of the key ingredients is exquisite high-resolution imaging data, such as Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging and…

Testing the distance-sum-rule in strong lensing systems provides an interesting method to determine the curvature parameter $\Omega_k$ using more local objects. In this paper, we apply this method to a quite recent data set of strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 Jing-Zhao Qi , Shuo Cao , Sixuan Zhang , Marek Biesiada , Yan Wu , Zong-Hong Zhu

High precision cosmological distance measurements towards individual objects such as time delay gravitational lenses or type Ia supernovae are affected by weak lensing perturbations by galaxies and groups along the line of sight. In time…

In order to use strong gravitational lens time delays to measure precise and accurate cosmological parameters the effects of mass along the line of sight must be taken into account. We present a method to achieve this by constraining the…

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

Strong lensing time delay measurements provide a valuable and almost model-independent tool for cosmological investigations. In this work we recognize that they also carry information on the strength of the gravitational coupling at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-11 Leonardo Giani , Emmanuel Frion

Time-delay cosmology offers an alternative approach to measuring the Hubble constant ($H_0$), which is distinct from the cosmic distance ladder and cosmic microwave background radiation methods. In this study, we present an improved strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Yuting Liu , Masamune Oguri

We present three complete seasons and two half-seasons of SDSS r-band photometry of the gravitationally lensed quasar SBS 0909+532 from the U.S. Naval Observatory, as well as two seasons each of SDSS g-band and r-band monitoring from the…

Time delay in galaxy gravitational lensing systems has been used to determine the value of Hubble constant. As in other dynamical phenomena at the scale of galaxy, dark matter is often invoked in gravitational lensing to account for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-10 Yong Tian , Chung-Ming Ko , Mu-Chen Chiu

We study possible systematic effects on the values of the cosmological parameters measured through strong lensing analyses of the HFF galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223. We use the observed positions of a large set of spectroscopically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 C. Grillo , P. Rosati , S. H. Suyu , G. B. Caminha , A. Mercurio , A. Halkola

We study gravitational lens time delays for a general family of lensing potentials, which includes the popular singular isothermal elliptical potential and singular isothermal elliptical density distribution but allows general angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 H. J. Witt , S. Mao , C. R. Keeton
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