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For 100 years since galaxies were found to be flying apart from each other, astronomers have been trying to determine how fast. The expansion, characterized by the Hubble constant, H0, is confused locally by peculiar velocities caused by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-23 R. Brent Tully

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

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

The measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$ plays a central role in modern cosmology. In this work, we investigate the potential of strongly lensed gravitational-wave (SLGW) signals from massive binary black hole mergers to constrain $H_0$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Yong Yuan , Minghui Du , Wen-Fan Feng , Benyang Zhu , Qing Diao , Peng Xu , Xilong Fan

In this work, we propose a cosmological model-independent and non-local method to constrain the Hubble Constant $H_0$. Inspired by the quasi cosmological model-independent and $H_0$-free properties of the `shifted' Hubble diagram of HII…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Jian-Chen Zhang , Kang Jiao , Tong-Jie Zhang

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

Current measurements of the Hubble constant $H_0$ on scale less than $\sim100$ Mpc appear to be controversial, while the observations made at high redshift seem to provide a relatively low value. On the other hand, the Hubble expansion is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Xiang-Ping Wu , Bo Qin , Li-Zhi Fang

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…

Forthcoming surveys will extend the understanding of cosmological large scale structures up to unprecedented redshift. According to this perspective, we present a fully relativistic framework to evaluate the impact of stochastic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Giuseppe Fanizza , Bartolomeo Fiorini , Giovanni Marozzi

We establish a cosmological-model-independent method to determine the Hubble constant $H_0$ from the localized fast radio bursts (FRBs) and the Hubble parameter measurements from cosmic chronometers and obtain a first such determination…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Yang Liu , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu

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…

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Shen-Shi Du , Jun-Jie Wei , Zhi-Qiang You , Zu-Cheng Chen , Zong-Hong Zhu , En-Wei Liang

The 0th, 1st and 2nd derivatives of a ``Fermat potential'' give the three D's of gravitational lensing: delay, deflection and distortion. Observations of these delays, deflections and distortions for doubly and quadruply imaged quasars give…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul L. Schechter

Measured time delays between the images of a gravitationally lensed source can lead to a determination of the Hubble constant ($H_o$), but only if the lensing mass distribution is well understood. The inability to sufficiently constrain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Rusin

Adopting the low-redshift observational datasets, including the Pantheon sample of Type Ia supernovae, baryon acoustic oscillation measurements, and the tomographic Alcock-Paczynski method, we determine the Hubble constant to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-22 Xue Zhang , Qing-Guo Huang

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

We present a new method to estimate the Hubble constant H_0 from the measured time delays in quadruply imaged gravitational lens systems. We show how it is possible to get an estimate of H_0 without the need to completely reconstruct the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. F. Cardone , S. Capozziello , V. Re , E. Piedipalumbo

The most recent Hubble constant ($H_0)$ estimates from local methods (z << 1), $H_0=73.8\pm 2.4$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$, and the one from high redshifts $H_0=67.3\pm 1.2$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$, are discrepant at $2.4 \sigma$ confidence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 R. F. L. Holanda , V. C. Busti , G. Pordeus da Silva

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

Absolute distances from strong lensing can anchor Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) at cosmological distances giving a model-independent inference of the Hubble constant ($H_0$). Future observations could provide strong lensing time-delay…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-29 Xiaolei Li , Ryan E. Keeley , Arman Shafieloo , Kai Liao