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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

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

We determine the Hubble constant $H_0$ precisely ($2.3\%$ uncertainty) in a manner independent of cosmological model through Gaussian process regression, using strong lensing and supernova data. Strong gravitational lensing of a variable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-08 Kai Liao , Arman Shafieloo , Ryan E. Keeley , Eric V. Linder

The discrepancy between the Hubble constant $H_0$ values derived from early-time and late-time measurements, reaching up to $4\sigma$, represents the most serious challenge in modern cosmology and astrophysics. In this work, we investigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-18 Mauricio Lopez-Hernandez , Josue De-Santiago

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

Strong lensing time-delay systems constrain cosmological parameters via the so-called time-delay distance and the angular diameter distance to the lens. In previous studies, only the former information was used. In this paper, we show that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Inh Jee , Eiichiro Komatsu , Sherry H. Suyu , Dragan Huterer

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

We present a cosmological model-independent determination of the Hubble constant, $H_0$, by combining time-delay measurements from seven TDCOSMO systems, Einstein radius measurements, and Type Ia Supernovae data sourced from the Pantheon+…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 L. R. Colaço , R. F. L. Holanda , Z. C. Santana , R. Silva

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

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

Accurate and precise measurements of the Hubble constant are critical for testing our current standard cosmological model and revealing possibly new physics. With Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging, each strong gravitational lens system…

The time delays between point-like images in gravitational lens systems can be used to measure cosmological parameters. The number of lenses with measured time delays is growing rapidly; the upcoming \emph{Large Synoptic Survey Telescope}…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-05 Gregory Dobler , Christopher Fassnacht , Tommaso Treu , Phillip J. Marshall , Kai Liao , Alireza Hojjati , Eric Linder , Nicholas Rumbaugh

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…

Strong gravitational lensing provides a geometric probe of cosmology in a unique manner through distance ratios involving the source and lens. This is well known for the time delay distance derived from measured delays between lightcurves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Eric V. Linder

Time-delay cosmography with gravitationally lensed quasars plays an important role in anchoring the absolute distance scale and hence measuring the Hubble constant, $H_{0}$, independent of traditional distance ladder methodology. A current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Geoff C. -F. Chen , Christopher D. Fassnacht , Sherry H. Suyu , Akın Yıldırım , Eiichiro Komatsu , Jose Luis Bernal

Absolute distances from strong lensing can anchor Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) at cosmological distances giving a model-independent inference of the Hubble constant ($H_0$). Future observations could provide strong lensing time-delay…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-29 Xiaolei Li , Ryan E. Keeley , Arman Shafieloo , Kai Liao

With the distance sum rule in the Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker metric, model-independent constraints on both the Hubble constant $H_0$ and spatial curvature $\Omega_{K}$ can be obtained using strong lensing time-delay data and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Jun-Jie Wei , Fulvio Melia

The Hubble constant ($H_0$), a crucial parameter in cosmology, quantifies the expansion rate of the universe so its precise measurement is important to understand the fundamental dynamics of our evolving universe. One of the major…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-29 Narayan Khadka , Simon Birrer , Alexie Leauthaud , Holden Nix

Using a new sub-sample of observed strong gravitational lens systems, for the first time, we present the equation for the angular diameter distance in the $y$-redshift scenario for cosmography and use it to test the cosmographic parameters.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Andrés Lizardo , Mario H. Amante , Miguel A. García-Aspeitia , Juan Magaña , V. Motta

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