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The discrepancy between the value of the Hubble constant $H_0$ measured from the local distance ladder and from the cosmic microwave background is the most serious challenge to the standard $\Lambda$CDM model. Various models have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Jian-Ping Hu , F. Y. Wang

The Hubble Tension is a well-known issue in modern cosmology that refers to the apparent disagreement in inferences of the Hubble constant $H_0$ as found through low-redshift observations and those derived from the $\Lambda$CDM model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Joshua Ange , Joel Meyers

We assess the possibility of determining the Hubble constant H_0 by measuring time delays between multiple images of supernovae gravitationally lensed by rich clusters of galaxies and combining these delay measurements with detailed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Adam S. Bolton , Scott Burles

The time delay between appearances of multiple images of a gravitationally lensed supernova (glSN) is sensitive to the Hubble constant, $H_0$. As well as time delays, a lensed host galaxy is needed to enable precise inference of $H_0$. In…

The dominant uncertainty in the current measurement of the Hubble constant ($H_0$) with strong gravitational lensing time delays is attributed to uncertainties in the mass profiles of the main deflector galaxies. Strongly lensed supernovae…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Simon Birrer , Suhail Dhawan , Anowar J. Shajib

Many of the fundamental physical constants in Physics, as a discipline, are measured to exquisite levels of precision. The fundamental constants that define Cosmology, however, are largely determined via a handful of independent techniques…

We present the first uniform gravitational lens modeling analysis of eight doubly imaged quasars from multi-band observations with the Hubble Space Telescope. Previous time-delay cosmography analyses by the TDCOSMO Collaboration have…

Weak gravitational lensing, the correlated distortion of background galaxy shapes by foreground structures, is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in our universe and allows accurate constraints on the cosmological model. In recent…

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

The light travel time differences in strong gravitational lensing systems allows an independent determination of the Hubble constant. This method has been successfully applied to several lens systems. The formally most precise measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Peter Schneider , Dominique Sluse

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

With the distance sum rule in the Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker metric, model-independent constraints on both the Hubble constant $H_0$ and spatial curvature $\Omega_{K}$ can be obtained using strong lensing time-delay data and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Jun-Jie Wei , Fulvio Melia

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

This paper introduces a novel cosmological model aimed at probing the accelerated expansion of the late Universe through a unique parametrization of the deceleration parameter. We aim to constrain key cosmic parameters by integrating recent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-14 Himanshu Chaudhary , Ujjal Debnath , G. Mustafa , S. K. Maurya , Farruh Atamurotov

The phenomenon of cosmic shear, or distortion of images of distant sources unaccompanied by magnification, is an effective way of probing the content and state of the foreground Universe, because light rays do not have to pass through mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Richard Lieu

We consider an alternative formula for time delay in gravitational lensing. Imposing a smoothness condition on the gravitationally deformed paths followed by the photons from the source to the observer, we show that our formula displays the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Nicola Alchera , Marco Bonici , Roberta Cardinale , Alba Domi , Nicola Maggiore , Chiara Righi , Silvano Tosi

This paper examines free-form modeling of gravitational lenses using Bayesian ensembles of pixelated mass maps. The priors and algorithms from previous work are clarified and significant technical improvements are made. Lens reconstruction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jonathan Coles

The cosmic distance duality relation (DDR), which links the angular diameter distance and the luminosity distance, is a cornerstone in modern cosmology. Any deviation from DDR may indicate new physics beyond the standard cosmological model.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-05 Li Tang , Hai-Nan Lin , Ying Wu

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful tool to provide constraints on galaxy mass distributions and cosmological parameters, such as the Hubble constant, $H_0$. Nevertheless, inference of such parameters from images of lensing systems…

As a completely independent method, the measurement of time delay of strongly lensed quasars (TDSL) are crucial to resolve the Hubble tension. Extensive monitoring is required but so far limited to a small sample of strongly lensed quasars.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Shanhao Zhu , Yiping Shu , Haibo Yuan , Jian-Ning Fu , Jian Gao , Jianghua Wu , Xiangtao He , Kai Liao , Guoliang Li , Xinzhong Er , Bin Hu