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Aims: To predict time delays for a sample of gravitationally lensed quasars and to evaluate the accuracy that can be realistically achieved on the value of H_0. Methods: We consider 14 lensed quasars that are candidates for time-delay…

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We present a simultaneous analysis of 18 galaxy lenses with time delay measurements. For each lens we derive mass maps using pixelated simultaneous modeling with shared Hubble constant. We estimate the Hubble constant to be 66_{-4}^{+6}…

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The $H_2$ norm is a commonly used performance metric in the design of estimators. However, $H_2$-optimal estimation of most PDEs is complicated by the lack of transfer function and state-space representations. To address this problem, we…

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The errors of cosmological data generated from complex processes, such as the observational Hubble parameter data (OHD) and the Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) data, cannot be accurately modeled by simple analytical probability distributions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-17 Yu-Chen Wang , Yuan-Bo Xie , Tong-Jie Zhang , Hui-Chao Huang , Tingting Zhang , Kun Liu

In a series of articles, we have shown that the newly discovered plasma-redshift cosmology gives a simpler, more accurate and consistent explanation of many cosmological phenomena than the big-bang cosmology. The SNe Ia observations are in…

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Detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs) enable direct inference of stellar and orbital properties across diverse stellar populations. However, inference typically requires computationally intensive forward modeling and radial velocity (RV)…

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Aims: Our aim is to measure the time delay between the two gravitationally lensed images of the z = 1.547 quasar SDSS J1650+4251, in order to estimate the Hubble constant H_0. Methods: Our measurement is based on R-band light curves with 57…

Strong gravitational lens systems with time delays between the multiple images allow measurements of time-delay distances, which are primarily sensitive to the Hubble constant that is key to probing dark energy, neutrino physics, and the…

The deceleration parameter q as the diagnostic of the cosmological accelerating expansion is investigated. By expanding the luminosity distance to the fourth order of redshift and the so-called y-redshift in two redshift bins and fitting…

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We present an improved measurement of the Hubble constant (H_0) using the 'inverse distance ladder' method, which adds the information from 207 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) at redshift 0.018 < z < 0.85 to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 E. Macaulay , R. C. Nichol , D. Bacon , D. Brout , T. M. Davis , B. Zhang , B. A. Bassett , D. Scolnic , A. Möller , C. B. D'Andrea , S. R. Hinton , R. Kessler , A. G. Kim , J. Lasker , C. Lidman , M. Sako , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Allam , J. Annis , J. Asorey , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , D. Brooks , P. Brown , D. L. Burke , J. Calcino , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , T. Collett , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , A. V. Filippenko , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , R. J. Foley , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , L. Galbany , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , K. Glazebrook , S. González-Gaitán , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , J. K. Hoormann , B. Hoyle , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , E. Kasai , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , G. F. Lewis , T. S. Li , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , R. Miquel , P. Nugent , A. Palmese , Y. -C. Pan , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. Sharp , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , N. E. Sommer , E. Suchyta , E. Swann , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , R. C. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , P. Wiseman

Strongly lensed supernovae (glSNe) provide a powerful, independent method to measure the Hubble constant, $H_{0}$, through time delays between their multiple images. The accuracy of this measurement depends critically on both the precision…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Yushan Xie , Huanyuan Shan , Yiping Shu , Nan Li , Ji Yao , Ran Li , Xiaoyue Cao , Zizhao He , Yin Li , Eric Jullo , Jean-Paul Kneib , Guoliang Li

Precision analysis of galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing images provides a unique way of characterizing small-scale dark matter halos, and could allow us to uncover the fundamental properties of dark matter's constituents. Recently,…

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In this article, we employ a machine learning (ML) approach for the estimations of four fundamental parameters, namely, the Hubble constant ($H_0$), matter ($\Omega_{0m}$), curvature ($\Omega_{0k}$) and vacuum ($\Omega_{0\Lambda}$)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Srikanta Pal , Rajib Saha

Strong gravitational lens systems with measured time delays between the multiple images provide a method for measuring the "time-delay distance" to the lens, and thus the Hubble constant. We present a Bayesian analysis of the strong…

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A measurement of the expansion rate of the Universe (that is the Hubble constant, H0) is derived here using the gamma-ray attenuation observed in the spectra of gamma-ray sources produced by the interaction of extragalactic gamma-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 A. Domínguez , F. Prada

The detection of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) is intricate due to their complex waveforms, extended duration, and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), making them more challenging to be identified compared to compact binary…

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We present constraints on the Hubble constant ($H_0$) derived from the observed dispersion measure (DM) distribution of unlocalized fast radio bursts (FRBs). While localized FRBs with redshift measurements have been used to investigate the…

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