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The light we observe from distant astrophysical objects including supernovae and quasars allows us to determine large distances in terms of a cosmological model. Despite the success of the standard cosmological model in fitting the data,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Angela L. H. Ng

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for investigating dark matter and dark energy properties. With the advent of large-scale sky surveys, we can discover strong lensing systems on an unprecedented scale, which requires efficient…

Using a new sub-sample of observed strong gravitational lens systems, for the first time, we present the equation for the angular diameter distance in the $y$-redshift scenario for cosmography and use it to test the cosmographic parameters.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Andrés Lizardo , Mario H. Amante , Miguel A. García-Aspeitia , Juan Magaña , V. Motta

The construction of the cosmic distance-duality relation (CDDR) has been widely studied. However, its consistency with various new observables remains a topic of interest. We present a new way to constrain the CDDR $\eta(z)$ using different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Akshay Rana , Deepak Jain , Shobhit Mahajan , Amitabha Mukherjee , R. F. L. Holanda

Galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing (GGSL) is a powerful probe for the formation and evolution of galaxies and cosmology, while the sample size of GGSLs leads to considerable uncertainties and potential bias. The China Space Station…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-31 Xiaoyue Cao , Ran Li , Nan Li , Rui Li , Yun Chen , Keyi Ding , Huanyuan Shan , Hu Zhan , Xin Zhang , Wei Du , Shuo Cao

In this study, we introduce a novel analytical Gaussian Process (GP) cosmography methodology, leveraging the differentiable properties of GPs to derive key cosmological quantities analytically. Our approach combines cosmic chronometer (CC)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-19 Bikash R. Dinda

Systems where multiple sources at different redshifts are strongly lensed by the same deflector allow one to directly investigate the evolution of the angular diameter distances with redshift, and thus to learn about the geometry of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 A. Bolamperti , C. Grillo , G. B. Caminha , G. Granata , S. H. Suyu , R. Cañameras , L. Christensen , J. Vernet , A. Zanella

Inferring spatial curvature of the Universe with high-fidelity is a longstanding interest in cosmology. However, the strong degeneracy between dark energy equation-of-state parameter $w$ and curvature density parameter $\Omega_{\rm K}$ has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-11 Yang Hu , Suhail Dhawan

Gravitational lensing has long been used to measure or constrain cosmology models. Although the lensing effect of gravitational waves has not been observed by LIGO/Virgo, it is expected that there can be a few to a few hundreds lensed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-19 Shaoqi Hou , Xi-Long Fan , Zong-Hong Zhu

We investigate strong gravitational lensing in the concordance $\Lambda$CDM cosmology by carrying out ray-tracing along past light cones through the Millennium Simulation, the largest simulation of cosmic structure formation ever carried…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-03 Stefan Hilbert , Simon D. M. White , Jan Hartlap , Peter Schneider

In this paper we use a recently compiled data set, which comprises 118 galactic-scale strong gravitational lensing (SGL) systems to constrain the statistic property of SGL system, as well as the curvature of universe without assuming any…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Jun-Qing Xia , Hai Yu , Guo-Jian Wang , Shu-Xun Tian , Zheng-Xiang Li , Shuo Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

Double source plane strong lensing (DSPL) systems offer a robust, independent probe of cosmological parameters. The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) is expected to discover hundreds of DSPLs, yet the survey modes and system…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Bei-Chen Wu , Xiaoyue Cao , Nan Li , Yan Gong , Shenzhe Cui , Di Wu , Tong Zhao , Junhui Yan

Strong gravitational lensing provides a natural opportunity to test General Relativity (GR). We propose a model-independent method for simultaneous constraining on Hubble constant ($H_0$) and post-Newtonian parameter (${\gamma_{\rm{PPN}}}$)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 Tonghua Liu , Kai Liao

A small fraction of gravitational-wave (GW) signals from binary black holes (BBHs) will be gravitationally lensed by intervening galaxies and galaxy clusters. Strong lensing will produce multiple identical copies of the GW signal arriving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Koustav N. Maity , Souvik Jana , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Ankur Barsode , Parameswaran Ajith

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

Strong lensing has developed into an important astrophysical tool for probing both cosmology and galaxies (their structures, formations, and evolutions). Now several hundreds of strong lens systems produced by massive galaxies have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shuo Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

Since upcoming telescopes will observe thousands of strong lensing systems, creating fully-automated analysis pipelines for these images becomes increasingly important. In this work, we make a step towards that direction by developing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Marco Chianese , Adam Coogan , Paul Hofma , Sydney Otten , Christoph Weniger

We study the correlation between the locations of galaxy-galaxy strong lensing candidates and tracers of large-scale structure from both weak lensing or X-ray emission. The COSMOS survey is a unique data set, combining deep, high resolution…

In a strong gravitational lensing system, the distorted light from a source is analysed to infer the properties of the lens. However, light emitted by the lens itself can contaminate the image of the source, introducing systematic errors in…

In this paper, we assemble a catalog of 118 strong gravitational lensing systems from SLACS, BELLS, LSD and SL2S surveys and use them to constrain the cosmic equation of state. In particular we consider two cases of dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Shuo Cao , Marek Biesiada , Raphaël Gavazzi , Aleksandra Piórkowska , Zong-Hong Zhu