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Strongly lensed supernovae are a promising new probe to obtain independent measurements of the Hubble constant (${H_0}$). In this work, we employ simulated gravitationally lensed Type Ia supernovae (glSNe Ia) to train our machine learning…

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In principle, the most straightforward method of estimating the Hubble constant relies on time delays between mirage images of strongly-lensed sources. It is a puzzle, then, that the values of H0 obtained with this method span a range from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Anna Barnacka , Margaret Geller , Ian P. Dell'Antonio , Wystan Benbow

Context. The precise determination of the present-day expansion rate of the Universe, expressed through the Hubble constant $H_0$, is one of the most pressing challenges in modern cosmology. Assuming flat $\Lambda$CDM, $H_0$ inference at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 S. Taubenberger , S. H. Suyu , E. Komatsu , I. Jee , S. Birrer , V. Bonvin , F. Courbin , C. E. Rusu , A. J. Shajib , K. C. Wong

In this letter, we propose an improved cosmological model-independent method to measure cosmic curvature, combining the recent measurements of transverse and line-of-sight directions in the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) with cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Xiaolong Gong , Yifei Xu , Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Jianyong Jiang , Yalong Nan , Ruobin Ding

While the Hubble constant can be derived from observable time delays between images of lensed quasars, the result is often highly sensitive to assumptions and systematic uncertainties in the lensing model. Unlike most previous authors we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 HongSheng Zhao , Danny Pronk

Time-delay cosmography is a powerful technique to constrain cosmological parameters, particularly the Hubble constant ($H_{0}$). The TDCOSMO collaboration is performing an ongoing analysis of lensed quasars to constrain cosmology using this…

Time-delay cosmography leverages strongly lensed quasars to measure the Universe's current expansion rate, H_0, independently from other methods. While the latest TDCOSMO results relied mainly on quadruply lensed quasars, doubly lensed…

In this paper, we use a newly compiled sample of ultra-compact structure in radio quasars and strong gravitational lensing systems with quasars acting as background sources to constrain six spatially flat and non-flat cosmological models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Xiaolei Li , Hao Zheng , Yuting Liu , Wuzheng Guo , Chenfa Zheng

Gravitationally lensed quasars can be used to map the mass distribution in lensing galaxies and to estimate the Hubble constant H0 by measuring the time delays between the quasar images. Here we report the measurement of two independent…

Model-independent bounds on the Hubble constant $H_0$ are important to shed light on cosmological tensions. We work out a model-independent analysis based on the sum rule, which is applied to late- and early-time data catalogs to determine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Orlando Luongo , Marco Muccino

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

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

One application of the Cosmological Gravitational Lensing in General Relativity is the measurement of the Hubble constant H_0 using the time delay Delta t between multiple images of lensed quasars. This method has already been applied,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-27 Nicola Alchera , Marco Bonici , Nicola Maggiore

For the quadruple gravitational lens PG 1115+080, we combine recent measurements of the time delays with new lens models to determine the Hubble constant H_0. We explore the effects of systematic uncertainties in the lens models on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 C. R. Keeton , C. S. Kochanek

Time-delay cosmography of lensed quasars has achieved 2.4% precision on the measurement of the Hubble constant, $H_0$. As part of an ongoing effort to uncover and control systematic uncertainties, we investigate three potential sources: 1-…

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

The local expansion rate of the Universe is parametrized by the Hubble constant, $H_0$, the ratio between recession velocity and distance. Different techniques lead to inconsistent estimates of $H_0$. Observations of Type Ia supernovae…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-17 Inh Jee , Sherry Suyu , Eiichiro Komatsu , Christopher D. Fassnacht , Stefan Hilbert , Léon V. E. Koopmans

In this letter, we propose an improved cosmological model independent method of determining the value of the Hubble constant $H_0$. The method uses unanchored luminosity distances $H_0d_L(z)$ from SN Ia Pantheon data combined with angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 Tonghua Liu , Xiyan Yang , Zisheng Zhang , Jieci Wang , Marek Biesiada

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

Strong lensing time delays can measure the Hubble constant H$_0$ independent of any other probe. Assuming commonly used forms for the radial mass density profile of the lenses, a 2\% precision has been achieved with 7 Time-Delay Cosmography…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Simon Birrer , Tommaso Treu