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We present a measurement of the Hubble constant ($H_{0}$) and other cosmological parameters from a joint analysis of six gravitationally lensed quasars with measured time delays. All lenses except the first are analyzed blindly with respect…

The time delay between multiple images of strongly lensed quasars has been used to infer the Hubble constant. The primary systematic uncertainty for time-delay cosmography is the mass-sheet transform (MST), which preserves the lensing…

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Strongly lensed supernovae (glSNe) provide a powerful, independent method to measure the Hubble constant, $H_{0}$, through time delays between their multiple images. The accuracy of this measurement depends critically on both the precision…

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Combining the `time-delay distance' ($D_{\Delta t}$) measurements from galaxy lenses and other distance indicators provides model-independent determinations of the Hubble constant ($H_0$) and spatial curvature ($\Omega_{K,0}$), only based…

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Although the Hubble constant $H_0$ and spatial curvature $\Omega_{K}$ have been measured with very high precision, they still suffer from some tensions. In this paper, we propose an improved method to combine the observations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Jing-Zhao Qi , Jia-Wei Zhao , Shuo Cao , Marek Biesiada , Yuting Liu

We present a blind time-delay cosmography measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$ based on the quadruply imaged quasar SDSSJ1433+6007. Our analysis combines deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging, extended time-delay monitoring from the…

Strong-lensing time delays enable measurement of the Hubble constant ($H_{0}$) independently of other traditional methods. The main limitation to the precision of time-delay cosmography is mass-sheet degeneracy (MSD). Some of the previous…

We perform the improved constraints on the Hubble constant $H_0$ by using the model-independent method, Gaussian Processes. Utilizing the latest 36 $H(z)$ measurements, we obtain $H_0=69.21\pm3.72$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$, which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-06 Deng Wang , Xin-He Meng

Strongly lensed explosive transients such as supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, fast radio bursts, and gravitational waves are very promising tools to determine the Hubble constant ($H_0$) in the near future in addition to strongly lensed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-11 Xuheng Ding , Kai Liao , Simon Birrer , Anowar J. Shajib , Tommaso Treu , Lilan Yang

Inflation predicts that the Universe is spatially flat. The Planck 2018 measurements of the cosmic microwave background anisotropy favour a spatially closed universe at more than 2$\sigma$ confidence level. We use model independent methods…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-07 Yingjie Yang , Yungui Gong

We present new measurements of the values of the Hubble constant, matter density, dark energy density, and dark energy density equation-of-state parameters from a full strong lensing analysis of the observed positions of 89 multiple images…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-24 C. Grillo , L. Pagano , P. Rosati , S. H. Suyu

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

Strong gravitational lensing forms multiple, time delayed images of cosmological sources, with the "focal length" of the lens serving as a cosmological distance probe. Robust estimation of the time delay distance can tightly constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-10 Alireza Hojjati , Eric V. Linder

Time-delay distance measurements from strongly lensed quasars provide a robust, independent method for determining the Hubble constant ($H_0$). This approach cross-checks $H_0$ estimates from the distance ladder in the late universe and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Han Wang , Sherry H. Suyu , Aymeric Galan , Aleksi Halkola , Michele Cappellari , Anowar J. Shajib , Miha Cernetic

Context. Time delay lensing is a powerful tool to measure the Hubble constant $H_0$. In order to obtain an accurate estimate of $H_0$ from a sample of time delay strong lenses, however, it is necessary to have a very good knowledge of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Alessandro Sonnenfeld

We determine the cosmic expansion rate from supernovae of type Ia to set up a data-based distance measure that does not make assumptions about the constituents of the universe, i.e. about a specific parametrisation of a Friedmann…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Jenny Wagner , Sven Meyer

There are now 10 firm time delay measurements in gravitational lenses. The physics of time delays is well understood, and the only important variable for interpreting the time delays to determine H_0 is the mean surface mass density <k> (in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. S. Kochanek , P. L. Schechter

Time delays between lensed multiple images have been known to provide an interesting probe of the Hubble constant, but such application is often limited by degeneracies with the shape of lens potentials. We propose a new statistical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masamune Oguri

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 derive new constraints on the Hubble parameter $H_0$ using the available data on $H(z)$ from cosmic chronometers (CCH), and the Hubble rate data points from the supernovae of Type Ia (SnIa) of the Pantheon compilation and the Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-13 Adrià Gómez-Valent , Luca Amendola