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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 the lens mass model of the quadruply-imaged gravitationally lensed quasar WFI2033-4723, and perform a blind cosmographical analysis based on this system. Our analysis combines (1) time-delay measurements from 14 years of data…

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

Realizing Refsdal's original idea from 1964, we present estimates of the Hubble constant that are complementary to and potentially competitive with those of other cosmological probes. We use the observed positions of 89 multiple images,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 C. Grillo , P. Rosati , S. H. Suyu , I. Balestra , G. B. Caminha , A. Halkola , P. L. Kelly , M. Lombardi , A. Mercurio , S. A. Rodney , T. Treu

Isothermal models and other simple smooth models of dark matter halos of gravitational lenses often predict a dimensionless time delay $H_0\Delta t$ much too small to be comfortable with the observed time delays $\Delta t$ and the widely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 HongSheng Zhao , Bo Qin

Strong gravitational lensing time-delay measurements, together with the distance sum rule (DSR), offer a model-independent approach to probe the geometry and expansion of the universe without relying on a fiducial cosmological model. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Darshan Kumar , Deepak Jain , Shobhit Mahajan

Remarkable development of cosmology is benefited from the increasingly improved measurements of cosmic distances including absolute distances and relative distances. In recent years, however, the emerged cosmological tensions motivate us to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-21 Jing-Zhao Qi , Wei-Hong Hu , Yu Cui , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Strong gravitational lensing of variable sources, such as quasars or supernovae, can be used to constrain cosmological parameters through a technique known as "time-delay cosmography''. Competitive constraints on the Hubble constant have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Simon Birrer , Graham P. Smith , Anowar J. Shajib , Dan Ryczanowski , Nikki Arendse

Aims: We measure the redshift of the lensing galaxy in eight gravitationally lensed quasars in view of determining the Hubble parameter H_0 from the time delay method. Methods: Deep VLT/FORS1 spectra of lensed quasars are spatially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Eigenbrod , F. Courbin , G. Meylan , C. Vuissoz , P. Magain , .

We present a joint strong lensing and stellar dynamical framework for future time-delay cosmography purposes. Based on a pixelated source reconstruction and the axisymmetric Jeans equations, we are capable of constraining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Akın Yıldırım , Sherry H. Suyu , Aleksi Halkola

Strong gravitational lenses with measured time delays between the multiple images and models of the lens mass distribution allow a one-step determination of the time-delay distance, and thus a measure of cosmological parameters. We present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. H. Suyu , M. W. Auger , S. Hilbert , P. J. Marshall , M. Tewes , T. Treu , C. D. Fassnacht , L. V. E. Koopmans , D. Sluse , R. D. Blandford , F. Courbin , G. Meylan

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

A method of general applicability has been developed, whereby the null geodesic equations of the Einstein-Straus-de Sitter metric can be integrated simultaneously in terms of the curvature constant $k$. The purpose is to generalize the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-06 Mourad Guenouche

The Hubble constant, $H_0$, which is a crucial parameter in astrophysics and cosmology, is under significant tension. We explore an independent technique to measure $H_0$ based on the time-delay cosmography with strong gravitational lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Yuting Liu , Masamune Oguri

The Hubble tension, revealed by a $\sim 5\sigma$ discrepancy between measurements of the Hubble-Lemaitre constant from early- and local-Universe observations, is one of the most significant problems in modern cosmology. In order to better…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Zizhao He , Nan Li , Xiaoyue Cao , Rui Li , Hu Zou , Simon Dye

Time delay in galaxy gravitational lensing systems has been used to determine the value of Hubble constant. As in other dynamical phenomena at the scale of galaxy, dark matter is often invoked in gravitational lensing to account for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-10 Yong Tian , Chung-Ming Ko , Mu-Chen Chiu

The distance-redshift relation plays a fundamental role in constraining cosmological models. In this paper, we show that measurements of positions and time delays of strongly lensed images of a background galaxy, as well as those of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Inh Jee , Eiichiro Komatsu , Sherry H. Suyu

This paper introduces a novel cosmological model aimed at probing the accelerated expansion of the late Universe through a unique parametrization of the deceleration parameter. We aim to constrain key cosmic parameters by integrating recent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-14 Himanshu Chaudhary , Ujjal Debnath , G. Mustafa , S. K. Maurya , Farruh Atamurotov

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

Lensed quasars and supernovae can be used to study galaxies' gravitational potential and measure cosmological parameters. The typical image separation of objects lensed by galaxies is of the order of 0.5". Therefore, finding the ones with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Ofer M. Springer , Eran O. Ofek