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Temporal variations of apparent magnitude, called light curves, are observational statistics of interest captured by telescopes over long periods of time. Light curves afford the exploration of Space Domain Awareness (SDA) objectives such…

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We present a new method for determining time delays among the light curves of various images in a gravitational lens. The method is based on constructing a simple model for the source variation and forming a chi squared measure of the…

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We present the characterization of macrolensing properties of the gravitationally lensed system PKS 1830-211, utilizing data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope. While at gamma-rays we can not spatially resolve the lensed images, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 S. Buson , M. De Toma , S. Larsson , C. C. Cheung , P. Cristarella Orestano , S. Ciprini , M. Razzano , A. Dominguez , M. Ajello , S. Cutini

Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (SNe) are emerging as a new probe of cosmology and astrophysics in recent years. We provide an overview of this nascent research field, starting with a summary of the first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-12 Sherry H. Suyu , Ariel Goobar , Thomas Collett , Anupreeta More , Giorgos Vernardos

Recent advancements in neural rendering techniques have significantly enhanced the fidelity of 3D reconstruction. Notably, the emergence of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has marked a significant milestone by adopting a discrete scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Licheng Shen , Ho Ngai Chow , Lingyun Wang , Tong Zhang , Mengqiu Wang , Yuxing Han

Strongly gravitational lensing systems (SGL) encodes cosmology information in source/lens distance ratios $\mathcal{D}_{\rm obs}=\mathcal{D}_{\rm ls}/\mathcal{D}_{\rm s}$, which can be used to precisely constrain cosmological parameters. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-05 Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Jia Zhang , Shuaibo Geng , Yuting Liu , Xuan Ji , Zong-Hong Zhu

Gravitationally lensed supernovae (glSNe) are of interest for time delay cosmology and SN physics. However, glSNe detections are rare, owing to the intrinsic rarity of SN explosions, the necessity of alignment with a foreground lens, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-12 Peter Craig , Kyle O'Connor , Sukanya Chakrabarti , Steven A. Rodney , Justin R. Pierel , Curtis McCully , Ismael Perez-Fournon

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

Bolometric light curves play an important role in understanding the underlying physics of various astrophysical phenomena, as they allow for a comprehensive modeling of the event and enable comparison between different objects. However,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Matwey V. Kornilov , T. A. Semenikhin , M. V. Pruzhinskaya

The time delay between appearances of multiple images of a gravitationally lensed supernova (glSN) is sensitive to the Hubble constant, $H_0$. As well as time delays, a lensed host galaxy is needed to enable precise inference of $H_0$. In…

Strongly lensed supernovae are a promising new probe to obtain independent measurements of the Hubble constant (${H_0}$). In this work, we employ simulated gravitationally lensed Type Ia supernovae (glSNe Ia) to train our machine learning…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Gonçalo Gonçalves , Nikki Arendse , Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Radosław Wojtak

Strongly gravitationally lensed supernovae (LSNe) are promising probes for providing absolute distance measurements using gravitational-lens time delays. Spatially unresolved LSNe offer an opportunity to enhance the sample size for…

Strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae (LSNe Ia) are a promising probe to measure the Hubble constant ($H_0$) directly. To use LSNe Ia for cosmography, a time-delay measurement between the multiple images, a lens-mass model, and a mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 S. Huber , S. H. Suyu

We present a probabilistic cross-correlation approach to estimate time delays in the context of reverberation mapping (RM) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We reformulate the traditional interpolated cross-correlation method as a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 F. Pozo Nuñez , N. Gianniotis , K. L. Polsterer

Strong gravitational lensing provides a natural opportunity to test General Relativity (GR). We propose a model-independent method for simultaneous constraining on Hubble constant ($H_0$) and post-Newtonian parameter (${\gamma_{\rm{PPN}}}$)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 Tonghua Liu , Kai Liao

The Hubble constant value is currently known to 10% accuracy unless assumptions are made for the cosmology (Sandage et al. 2006). Gravitational lens systems provide another probe of the Hubble constant using time delay measurements.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-01 G. Gürkan , N. Jackson , I. W. A. Browne , L. V. E. Koopmans , C. D. Fassnacht , A. Berciano Alba

Obtaining lensing time delay measurements requires long-term monitoring campaigns with a high enough resolution (< 1 arcsec) to separate the multiple images. In the radio, a limited number of high-resolution interferometer arrays make these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-21 G. Gurkan , N. Jackson , L. V. E. Koopmans , C. D. Fassnacht , A. Berciano Alba

We present the first year of Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the unique supernova (SN) 'Refsdal', a gravitationally lensed SN at z=1.488$\pm$0.001 with multiple images behind the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.6+2223. The first four observed…

We present a spatio-temporal AI framework that concurrently exploits both the spatial and time-variable features of gravitationally lensed supernovae in optical images to ultimately aid in future discoveries of such exotic transients in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Nikki Arendse , Radosław Wojtak

Like light, gravitational waves can be gravitationally lensed by massive astrophysical objects. Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies and galaxy clusters is anticipated to become observable in the coming years. This phenomenon will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Leo C. Y. Ng , Justin Janquart , Hemantakumar Phurailatpam , Harsh Narola , Jason S. C. Poon , Chris Van Den Broeck , Otto A. Hannuksela