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By comparing the dynamical and lensing masses of early-type lens galaxies, one can constrain both the cosmological parameters and the density profiles of galaxies. We explore the constraining power on cosmological parameters and the effect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Yun Chen , Ran Li , Yiping Shu , Xiaoyue Cao

We investigate how observations of strong lensing can be used to infer cosmological parameters, in particular the equation of state of dark energy. We focus on the growth of the critical lines of lensing clusters with the source redshift as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-03 Britta Zieser , Matthias Bartelmann

We describe a new approach for the determination of cosmological parameters using gravitational lensing systems with multiple arcs, exploiting the fact that a given cluster can produce multiple arcs from sources over a broad range in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Robert Link , Michael J. Pierce

In recent years, a crisis in the standard cosmology has been caused by inconsistencies in the measurements of some key cosmological parameters, Hubble constant $H_0$ and cosmic curvature parameter $\Omega_K$ for example. It is necessary to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Meng-Di Cao , Jie Zheng , Jing-Zhao Qi , Xin Zhang , Zong-Hong Zhu

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

Strong gravitational lensing of sources with different redshifts has been used to determine cosmological distance ratios, which in turn depend on the expansion history. Hence, such systems are viewed as potential tools for constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Peter Schneider

LISA might detect gravitational waves from mergers of massive black hole binaries strongly lensed by intervening galaxies (Sereno et al. 2010). The detection of multiple gravitational lensing events would provide a new tool for cosmography.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Sereno , Ph. Jetzer , A. Sesana , M. Volonteri

Applying the distance sum rule in strong gravitational lensing (SGL) and type Ia supernova (SN Ia) observations, one can provide an interesting cosmological model-independent method to determine the cosmic curvature parameter $\Omega_k$. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-31 Bo Wang , Jing-Zhao Qi , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

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

Quantifying image distortions caused by strong gravitational lensing and estimating the corresponding matter distribution in lensing galaxies has been primarily performed by maximum likelihood modeling of observations. This is typically a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Yashar D. Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault Levasseur , Philip J. Marshall

Double-source-plane strong gravitational lenses (DSPLs), with two sources at different redshifts, are independent cosmological probes of the dark energy equation of state parameter $w$ and the matter density parameter $\Omega_{\rm m}$. We…

We develop a novel statistical strong lensing approach to probe the cosmological parameters by exploiting multiple redshift image systems behind galaxies or galaxy clusters. The method relies on free-form mass inversion of strong lenses and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Lubini , M. Sereno , J. Coles , Ph. Jetzer , P. Saha

Strong gravitational lensing provides an independent and powerful probe of cosmic expansion by directly linking observables to cosmological distances. Upcoming surveys such as LSST will discover large number of galaxy-galaxy strong lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Shuaibo Geng , Shuo Cao , Marek Biesiada , Xinyue Jiang , Yalong Nan , Chenfa Zheng

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

In this work, by using strong gravitational lensing (SGL) observations along with Type Ia Supernovae (Union2.1) and gamma ray burst data (GRBs), we propose a new method to study a possible redshift evolution of $\gamma(z)$, the mass density…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-16 R. F. L. Holanda , S. H. Pereira , Deepak Jain

We investigate the potentiality of using strong lensing clusters to constrain the cosmological parameters Omega_m and Omega_lambda. The existence of a multiple image system with known redshift allows, for a given (Omega_m, Omega_lambda)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Golse , J. -P. Kneib , G. Soucail

Strong gravitational lensing provides a geometric probe of cosmology in a unique manner through distance ratios involving the source and lens. This is well known for the time delay distance derived from measured delays between lightcurves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Eric V. Linder

We present MGLenS, a large series of modified gravity lensing simulations tailored for cosmic shear data analyses and forecasts in which cosmological and modified gravity parameters are varied simultaneously. Based on the FORGE and BRIDGE…

Strong gravitational lensing (SGL) has provided an important tool for probing galaxies and cosmology. In this paper, we use the SGL data to constrain the holographic dark energy model, as well as models that have the same parameter number,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-24 Jing-Lei Cui , Yue-Yao Xu , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Strong gravitational lenses with two background sources at widely separated redshifts are a powerful and independent probe of cosmological parameters. We can use these systems, known as Double-Source-Plane Lenses (DSPLs), to measure the…