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We present a blind time-delay strong lensing (TDSL) cosmographic analysis of the doubly imaged quasar SDSS 1206+4332. We combine the relative time delay between the quasar images, Hubble Space Telescope imaging, the Keck stellar velocity…

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…

Time delay cosmography uses the arrival time delays between images in strong gravitational lenses to measure cosmological parameters, in particular the Hubble constant $H_0$. The lens models used in time delay cosmography omit dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Daniel Gilman , Simon Birrer , Tommaso Treu

The H0LiCOW collaboration inferred via gravitational lensing time delays a Hubble constant $H_0=73.3^{+1.7}_{-1.8}$ km s$^{-1}{\rm Mpc}^{-1}$, describing deflector mass density profiles by either a power-law or stars plus standard dark…

While the Hubble constant can be derived from observable time delays between images of lensed quasars, the result is often highly sensitive to assumptions and systematic uncertainties in the lensing model. Unlike most previous authors we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 HongSheng Zhao , Danny Pronk

Multiply imaged time-variable sources can be used to measure absolute distances as a function of redshifts and thus determine cosmological parameters, chiefly the Hubble Constant H$_0$. In the two decades up to 2020, through a number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 T. Treu , S. H. Suyu , P. J. Marshall

Strong lensing time delay cosmography has excellent complementarity with other dark energy probes, and will soon have abundant systems detected. We investigate two issues in the imaging and spectroscopic followup required to obtain the time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-16 Eric V. Linder

Measurement of the time delay between multiple images of a gravitational lens system is potentially an accurate method of determining the Hubble constant over cosmological distances. One of the most promising candidates for an application…

We present a determination of the Hubble constant from the joint, free-form analysis of 8 strongly, quadruply lensing systems. In the concordance cosmology, we find $H_0 = 71.8^{+3.9}_{-3.3}\,\mathrm{km}\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}\,\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-22 Philipp Denzel , Jonathan P. Coles , Prasenjit Saha , Liliya L. R. Williams

Time-delay cosmography can be used to infer the Hubble parameter $H_0$ by measuring the relative time delays between multiple images of gravitationally-lensed quasars. A few of such systems have already been used to measure $H_0$: their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 L. Biggio , A. Domi , S. Tosi , G. Vernardos , D. Ricci , L. Paganin , G. Bracco

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…

Measurements of The Hubble-Lemaitre constant from early- and local-universe observations show a significant discrepancy. In an attempt to understand the origin of this mismatch, independent techniques to measure H0 are required. One such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Nan Li , Christoph Becker , Simon Dye

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…

Future large ensembles of time delay lenses have the potential to provide interesting cosmological constraints complementary to those of other methods. In a flat universe with constant w including a Planck prior, LSST time delay…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dan Coe , Leonidas Moustakas

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…

Time delay lensing is a mature and competitive cosmological probe. However, it is limited in accuracy by the well-known problem of the mass-sheet degeneracy: too rigid assumptions on the density profile of the lens can potentially bias the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Alessandro Sonnenfeld

Time-delay distance measurements from strongly lensed quasars provide a robust, independent method for determining the Hubble constant ($H_0$). This approach cross-checks $H_0$ estimates from the distance ladder in the late universe and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Han Wang , Sherry H. Suyu , Aymeric Galan , Aleksi Halkola , Michele Cappellari , Anowar J. Shajib , Miha Cernetic

The largest source of systematic errors in the time-delay cosmography method likely arises from the lens model mass distribution, where an inaccurate choice of model could in principle bias the value of $H_0$. A Bayesian hierarchical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Matthew R. Gomer , Dominique Sluse , Lyne Van de Vyvere , Simon Birrer , Frederic Courbin

The time delay between the arrival of photons of multiple images of time variable sources can be used to constrain absolute distances in the Universe (Refsdal 1964), and in turn obtain a direct estimate of the Hubble constant and other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Simon Birrer , Tommaso Treu

We use supernovae measurements, calibrated by the local determination of the Hubble constant $H_0$ by SH0ES, to interpolate the distance-redshift relation using Gaussian process regression. We then predict, independent of the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Shivam Pandey , Marco Raveri , Bhuvnesh Jain