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We present the first uniform gravitational lens modeling analysis of eight doubly imaged quasars from multi-band observations with the Hubble Space Telescope. Previous time-delay cosmography analyses by the TDCOSMO Collaboration have…

Double-plane gravitational lensing is a rare but increasingly observed phenomenon in which the light from a distant source is lensed by two foreground objects at different redshifts. Such systems can be used to provide simultaneous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Daniel Johnson , Pierre Fleury , Martin Millon

Strongly gravitational lensed quasars can be used to measure the so-called time-delay distance $D_{\Delta t}$, and thus the Hubble constant $H_0$ and other cosmological parameters. Stellar kinematics of the deflector galaxy play an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-17 Anowar J. Shajib , Tommaso Treu , Adriano Agnello

Context. Time delay lensing is a powerful tool to measure the Hubble constant $H_0$. In order to obtain an accurate estimate of $H_0$ from a sample of time delay strong lenses, however, it is necessary to have a very good knowledge of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Alessandro Sonnenfeld

We study gravitational lens time delays for a general family of lensing potentials, which includes the popular singular isothermal elliptical potential and singular isothermal elliptical density distribution but allows general angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 H. J. Witt , S. Mao , C. R. Keeton

Strong gravitational lensing has been a powerful probe of cosmological models and gravity. To date, constraints in either domain have been obtained separately. We propose a new methodology through which the cosmological model, specifically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Tao Yang , Simon Birrer , Bin Hu

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

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

Time delays between multiple images of lensed sources can probe the geometry of the universe. We propose a novel method based on free-form modelling of gravitational lenses to estimate time-delay distances and, in turn, cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Mauro Sereno , Danuta Paraficz

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

Tension between cosmic microwave background-based and distance ladder-based determinations of the Hubble constant ${\rm H}_{\rm 0}$ motivates pursuit of independent methods that are not subject to the same systematic effects. A promising…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-23 Kate Napier , Keren Sharon , Håkon Dahle , Matthew Bayliss , Michael D. Gladders , Guillaume Mahler , Jane R. Rigby , Michael Florian

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

We present cosmological constraints from 8 strongly lensed quasars (hereafter, the TDCOSMO-2025 sample). Building on previous work, our analysis incorporated new deflector stellar velocity dispersions measured from spectra obtained with the…

Challenges inherent to high-resolution and high signal-to-noise data as well as model degeneracies can cause systematic biases in analyses of strong lens systems. In the past decade, the number of lens modeling methods has significantly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 A. Galan , G. Vernardos , Q. Minor , D. Sluse , L. Van de Vyvere , M. Gomer

Analysis of strong gravitational lensing depends on software analysis of observational data. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the behavior of strong gravitational lens modeling software with changes in redshift. Four different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 Alan T. Lefor , Toshifumi Futamase

Time delays in strong gravitational lensing systems possess significant complementarity with distance measurements to determine the dark energy equation of state, as well as the matter density and Hubble constant. Time delays are most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-04 Eric V. Linder

Observed time delays between images of a lensed QSO lead to the determination of the Hubble constant by Refsdal's method, provided the mass distribution in the lensing galaxy is reasonably well known. Since the two or four QSO images…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Liliya L. R. Williams , Prasenjit Saha

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, $H_{0}$.…

Time-delay strong lensing (TDSL) is a powerful probe of the current expansion rate of the Universe. However, in light of the discrepancies between early and late-time cosmological studies, efforts revolve around the characterisation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 A. Yıldırım , S. H. Suyu , G. C. -F. Chen , E. Komatsu

Two major challenges of contemporary cosmology are the Hubble tension and the cosmic dipole tension. At the crossroad of these, we investigate the impact of peculiar velocities on estimations of the Hubble constant from time-delay…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Charles Dalang , Martin Millon , Tessa Baker