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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

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

Combining the `time-delay distance' ($D_{\Delta t}$) measurements from galaxy lenses and other distance indicators provides model-independent determinations of the Hubble constant ($H_0$) and spatial curvature ($\Omega_{K,0}$), only based…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Shen-Shi Du , Jun-Jie Wei , Zhi-Qiang You , Zu-Cheng Chen , Zong-Hong Zhu , En-Wei Liang

This paper presents a new model-independent constraint on the Hubble constant ($H_0$) by anchoring relative distances from Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observations to absolute distance measurements from time-delay strong Gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 L. R. Colaço

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

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

Although general relativity (GR) has been precisely tested at the solar system scale, precise tests at a galactic or cosmological scale are still relatively insufficient. Here, in order to test GR at the galactic scale, we use the newly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-07 Xiao-Hui Liu , Zhen-Hua Li , Jing-Zhao Qi , Xin Zhang

{{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

We determine the cosmic expansion rate from supernovae of type Ia to set up a data-based distance measure that does not make assumptions about the constituents of the universe, i.e. about a specific parametrisation of a Friedmann…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Jenny Wagner , Sven Meyer

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

Einstein's theory of general relativity (GR) has been precisely tested on solar system scales, but extragalactic tests are still poorly performed. In this work, we use a newly compiled sample of galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Jun-Jie Wei , Yun Chen , Shuo Cao , Xue-Feng Wu

Observations of galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing (SGL) systems have enabled unique tests of nonlinear departures from general relativity (GR) on the galactic and supergalactic scales. One of the most important cases of such tests…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Yujie Lian , Shuo Cao , Tonghua Liu , Marek Biesiada , Zong-Hong Zhu

Based on a mass-selected sample of galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses from the SLACS, BELLS, LSD and SL2S surveys and using a well-motivated fiducial set of lens-galaxy parameters we tested the weak-field metric on kiloparsec scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-08 Shuo Cao , Xiaolei Li , Marek Biesiada , Tengpeng Xu , Yongzhi Cai , Zong-Hong Zhu

Strong gravitational lensing effect is a powerful tool to probe cosmological models and gravity theories. Recently, the time-delay cosmography from strong lensing and the stellar kinematics of the deflector, which encode the Hubble constant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Ran Gao , Zhengxiang Li , He Gao

The measurement of the parametrized post-Newtonian parameter $\gamma_{\rm{PPN}}$ is a robust test of general relativity (GR). In some modified theories of gravity, $\gamma_{\rm{PPN}}$ may evolve with the redshift and deviate from one at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-01 Tonghua Liu , Marek Biesiada , Shuxun Tian , Kai Liao

The dominant uncertainty in the current measurement of the Hubble constant ($H_0$) with strong gravitational lensing time delays is attributed to uncertainties in the mass profiles of the main deflector galaxies. Strongly lensed supernovae…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Simon Birrer , Suhail Dhawan , Anowar J. Shajib

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 a cosmological model-independent framework for testing general relativity (GR) on galactic scales by combining baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) angular scale measurements with 120 galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Hengyu Wu , Tonghua Liu , Chenggang Shao

One application of the Cosmological Gravitational Lensing in General Relativity is the measurement of the Hubble constant H_0 using the time delay Delta t between multiple images of lensed quasars. This method has already been applied,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-27 Nicola Alchera , Marco Bonici , Nicola Maggiore

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
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