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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

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…

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

We present a simple and promising new method to measure the expansion rate and the geometry of the universe that combines observations related to the time delays between the multiple images of time-varying sources, strongly lensed by galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 A. Acebron , S. Schuldt , C. Grillo , P. Bergamini , G. Granata , U. Mestric , G. B. Caminha , M. Meneghetti , A. Mercurio , P. Rosati , S. H. Suyu , E. Vanzella

The Hubble constant, $H_0$, which is a crucial parameter in astrophysics and cosmology, is under significant tension. We explore an independent technique to measure $H_0$ based on the time-delay cosmography with strong gravitational lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Yuting Liu , Masamune Oguri

Strong lens time delays have been widely used in cosmological studies, especially to infer $H_0$. The upcoming LSST will provide several hundred well measured time delays from the light curves of lensed quasars. However, due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-29 Kai Liao

We explore the use of a Neural Ratio Estimator (NRE) to determine the Hubble constant ($H_0$) in the context of time delay cosmography. Assuming a Singular Isothermal Ellipsoid (SIE) mass profile for the deflector, we simulate time delay…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-29 Ève Campeau-Poirier , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Adam Coogan , Yashar Hezaveh

{{The reappearance of supernova Refsdal with detailed modeling of the lens cluster allows us to measure the time-delay distance,}} which serves as a powerful tool to determine the Hubble constant ($H_0$). We give a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Xiaolei Li , Kai Liao

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…

We present a novel approach to measuring the expansion rate and the geometry of the Universe, which combine time-delay cosmography in lens galaxy clusters with pure samples of 'cosmic chronometers' (CCs) by probing the member galaxies. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-11 P. Bergamini , S. Schuldt , A. Acebron , C. Grillo , U. Mestric , G. Granata , G. B. Caminha , M. Meneghetti , A. Mercurio , P. Rosati , S. H. Suyu , E. Vanzella

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

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

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

We present the results of a program to monitor the four-image gravitational lens B1608+656 with the VLA. The system was observed over a seven month period from 1996 October to 1997 May. The 64 epochs of observation have an average spacing…

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-…

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

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…

Context. The precise determination of the present-day expansion rate of the Universe, expressed through the Hubble constant $H_0$, is one of the most pressing challenges in modern cosmology. Assuming flat $\Lambda$CDM, $H_0$ inference at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 S. Taubenberger , S. H. Suyu , E. Komatsu , I. Jee , S. Birrer , V. Bonvin , F. Courbin , C. E. Rusu , A. J. Shajib , K. C. Wong

The light travel time differences in strong gravitational lensing systems allows an independent determination of the Hubble constant. This method has been successfully applied to several lens systems. The formally most precise measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Peter Schneider , Dominique Sluse

The Hubble constant can be constrained using the time delays between multiple images of gravitationally lensed sources. In some notable cases, typical lensing analyses assuming isothermal galaxy density profiles produce low values for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-29 Virginia L. Corless , Benjamin M. Dobke , Lindsay J. King