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Strongly lensed quasar systems with time delay measurements provide "time delay distances", which are a combination of three angular diameter distances and serve as powerful tools to determine the Hubble constant $H_0$. However, current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 Kai Liao , Arman Shafieloo , Ryan E. Keeley , Eric V. Linder

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…

Strongly lensed quasars with time-delay measurements are well known to provide the "time-delay distances" $D_{\Delta t}=(1+z_L)D_LD_S/D_{LS}$ and the angular diameter distances to lens galaxies $D_L$. These two kinds of distances give…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-19 Kai Liao

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

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

We present a blind time-delay cosmography measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$ based on the quadruply imaged quasar SDSSJ1433+6007. Our analysis combines deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging, extended time-delay monitoring from the…

Strong gravitational lensing provides an independent measurement of the Hubble parameter ($H_0$). One remaining systematic is a bias from the additional mass due to a galaxy group at the lens redshift or along the sightline. We quantify…

The time delay measured between the images of gravitationally lensed quasars probes a combination of the angular diameter distance to the source-lens system and the mass density profile of the lens. Observational campaigns to measure such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Kfir Blum , Emanuele Castorina , Marko Simonović

Given the tension between the values of the Hubble parameter $H_0$ inferred from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and from supernovae, attention is turning to time delays of strongly lensed quasars. Current time-delay measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Julian B. Muñoz , Marc Kamionkowski

We propose a Bayesian meta-analysis to infer the current expansion rate of the Universe, called the Hubble constant ($H_0$), via time delay cosmography. Inputs of the meta-analysis are estimates of two properties for each pair of…

Applications · Statistics 2024-11-14 Hyungsuk Tak , Xuheng Ding

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 gravitational lenses with measured time delays between the multiple images allow a direct measurement of the time-delay distance to the lens, and thus a measure of cosmological parameters, particularly the Hubble constant, $H_{0}$.…

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

Gravitational lensing time delays depend upon the Hubble constant and the density distribution of the lensing galaxies. This allows one to either model the lens and estimate the Hubble constant, or to use a prior on the Hubble constant from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Benjamin M. Dobke , Lindsay J. King

Upcoming ground and space based observatories such as the DES, the LSST, the JDEM concepts and the SKA, promise to dramatically increase the size of strong gravitational lens samples. A significant fraction of the systems are expected to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Benjamin M. Dobke , Lindsay J. King , Christopher D. Fassnacht , Matthew W. Auger

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

We present a numerical method to estimate the lensing parameters and the Hubble constant H_0 from quadruply imaged gravitational lens systems. The lens galaxy is modeled using both separable deflection potentials and constant mass-to-light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Tortora , E. Piedipalumbo , V. F. Cardone

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

Attempts to constrain the Hubble constant using the strong gravitational lens system Q0957+561 are limited by systematic uncertainties in the mass model, since the time delay is known very precisely. One important systematic effect is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 R. Nakajima , G. M. Bernstein , R. Fadely , C. R. Keeton , T. Schrabback

Strong gravitational lensing of time variable sources such as quasars and supernovae creates observable time delays between the multiple images. Time delays can provide a powerful cosmographic probe through the "time delay distance"…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-18 Alireza Hojjati , Alex G. Kim , Eric V. Linder