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Time-delay cosmography is a powerful technique to constrain cosmological parameters, particularly the Hubble constant ($H_{0}$). The TDCOSMO collaboration is performing an ongoing analysis of lensed quasars to constrain cosmology using this…

The Hubble constant value is currently known to 10% accuracy unless assumptions are made for the cosmology (Sandage et al. 2006). Gravitational lens systems provide another probe of the Hubble constant using time delay measurements.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-01 G. Gürkan , N. Jackson , I. W. A. Browne , L. V. E. Koopmans , C. D. Fassnacht , A. Berciano Alba

While time-delay lenses can be an independent probe of $H_0$ the estimates are degenerate with the convergence of the lens near the Einstein radius. Velocity dispersions, $\sigma$, can be used to break the degeneracy, with uncertainties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-05 R. Forés-Toribio , C. S. Kochanek , J. A. Muñoz

Time-delay cosmography uses strong gravitational lensing of a time-variable source to infer the Hubble Constant. The measurement is independent from both traditional distance ladder and CMB measurements. An accurate measurement with this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Patrick Wells , Christopher D. Fassnacht , C. E. Rusu

The time delay between multiple images of strongly lensed quasars has been used to infer the Hubble constant. The primary systematic uncertainty for time-delay cosmography is the mass-sheet transform (MST), which preserves the lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Tian Li , Thomas E. Collett , Philip J. Marshall , Sydney Erickson , Wolfgang Enzi , Lindsay Oldham , Daniel Ballard

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…

Strong lensing time delays can measure the Hubble constant H$_0$ independent of any other probe. Assuming commonly used forms for the radial mass density profile of the lenses, a 2\% precision has been achieved with 7 Time-Delay Cosmography…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Simon Birrer , Tommaso Treu

Time-delay cosmography of lensed quasars has achieved 2.4% precision on the measurement of the Hubble constant, $H_0$. As part of an ongoing effort to uncover and control systematic uncertainties, we investigate three potential sources: 1-…

For the quadruple gravitational lens PG 1115+080, we combine recent measurements of the time delays with new lens models to determine the Hubble constant H_0. We explore the effects of systematic uncertainties in the lens models on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 C. R. Keeton , C. S. Kochanek

Gravitational time delays offer unique, independent measurements of the Hubble constant, $H_0$. Precise measurements of $H_0$ stand as one of the most pressing challenges in modern cosmology, and to do so with time delays requires precise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 D. M. Williams , T. Treu , S. Birrer , A. J. Shajib , K. C. Wong , T. Morishita , T. Schmidt , M. Stiavelli

The goal of this work is to obtain a Hubble constant estimate through the study of the quadruply lensed, variable QSO SDSSJ1433+6007. To achieve this we combine multi-filter, archival $\textit{HST}$ data for lens modelling and a dedicated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 G. Queirolo , S. Seitz , A. Riffeser , M. Kluge , R. Bender , C. Gössl , U. Hopp , C. Ries , M. Schmidt , R. Zöller

In recent years, breakthroughs in methods and data have enabled gravitational time delays to emerge as a very powerful tool to measure the Hubble constant $H_0$. However, published state-of-the-art analyses require of order 1 year of expert…

Strong gravitational lenses with measured time delay are a powerful tool to measure cosmological parameters, especially the Hubble constant ($H_0$). Recent studies show that by combining just three multiply-imaged AGN systems, one can…

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

Strong gravitational lensing forms multiple, time delayed images of cosmological sources, with the "focal length" of the lens serving as a cosmological distance probe. Robust estimation of the time delay distance can tightly constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-10 Alireza Hojjati , Eric V. Linder

Gravitationally lensed quasars can be used to map the mass distribution in lensing galaxies and to estimate the Hubble constant H0 by measuring the time delays between the quasar images. Here we report the measurement of two independent…

Time-delay strong lensing provides a unique way to directly measure the Hubble constant ($H_{0}$). The precision of the $H_{0}$ measurement depends on the uncertainties in the time-delay measurements, the mass distribution of the main…

We present a new measurement of the Hubble Constant H0 and other cosmological parameters based on the joint analysis of three multiply-imaged quasar systems with measured gravitational time delays. First, we measure the time delay of…

Multiply lensed sources experience a relative time delay in the arrival of photons. This effect can be used to measure absolute distances and the Hubble constant ($H_0$) and is known as time-delay cosmography. The methodology is independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 S. Birrer , M. Millon , D. Sluse , A. J. Shajib , F. Courbin , L. V. E. Koopmans , S. H. Suyu , T. Treu

We present a blind time-delay cosmographic analysis for the lens system DES J0408$-$5354. This system is extraordinary for the presence of two sets of multiple images at different redshifts, which provide the opportunity to obtain more…

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