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Strongly lensed explosive transients such as supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, fast radio bursts, and gravitational waves are very promising tools to determine the Hubble constant ($H_0$) in the near future in addition to strongly lensed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-11 Xuheng Ding , Kai Liao , Simon Birrer , Anowar J. Shajib , Tommaso Treu , Lilan Yang

Modeling of strongly gravitationally lensed galaxies is often required in order to use them as astrophysical or cosmological probes. With current and upcoming wide-field imaging surveys, the number of detected lenses is increasing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , R. Canameras , Y. Shu , S. Taubenberger , S. Ertl , A. Halkola

We present high-spatial resolution imaging obtained with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) at 880um and the Keck Adaptive Optics (AO) system at Ks-band of a gravitationally lensed sub-millimeter galaxy (SMG) at z=4.243 discovered in the…

We present the result of a spectroscopic campaign targeting Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) candidates selected using a novel unsupervised machine-learning (ML) algorithm trained on optical and mid-infrared (mid-IR) photometry. AGN candidates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-09 Raphael E. Hviding , Kevin N. Hainline , Andy D. Goulding , Jenny E. Greene

Upcoming large astronomical surveys are expected to capture an unprecedented number of strong gravitational lensing systems. Deep learning is emerging as a promising practical tool for the detection and quantification of these galaxy-scale…

Systems where multiple sources at different redshifts are strongly lensed by the same deflector allow one to directly investigate the evolution of the angular diameter distances with redshift, and thus to learn about the geometry of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 A. Bolamperti , C. Grillo , G. B. Caminha , G. Granata , S. H. Suyu , R. Cañameras , L. Christensen , J. Vernet , A. Zanella

We present a numerical method to estimate the lensing parameters and the Hubble constant H_0 from quadruply imaged gravitational lens systems. The lens galaxy is modeled using both separable deflection potentials and constant mass-to-light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Tortora , E. Piedipalumbo , V. F. Cardone

In order to use strong gravitational lens time delays to measure precise and accurate cosmological parameters the effects of mass along the line of sight must be taken into account. We present a method to achieve this by constraining the…

This study aims to test the validity of general relativity (GR) on kiloparsec scales by employing a newly compiled galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing (SGL) sample. We utilize the distance sum rule within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 Jing-Yu Ran , Jun-Jie Wei

We present a 3D Bayesian method to model the kinematics of strongly lensed galaxies from spatially-resolved emission-line observations. This technique enables us to simultaneously recover the lens-mass distribution and the source kinematics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-21 Francesca Rizzo , Simona Vegetti , Filippo Fraternali , Enrico Di Teodoro

We present the first uniform gravitational lens modeling analysis of eight doubly imaged quasars from multi-band observations with the Hubble Space Telescope. Previous time-delay cosmography analyses by the TDCOSMO Collaboration have…

We present a maximum-likelihood analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing effects in galaxy clusters and in the field. The aim is to determine the accuracy and robustness of constraints that can be obtained on galaxy halo properties in both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marceau Limousin , Jean Paul Kneib , Priyamvada Natarajan

One challenge in strong gravitational lensing cosmography is the measurement of time delays between multiple lensed images, which are essential for constraining the Hubble constant (\(H_0\)). In this study, we investigate how assumptions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Guanhua Rui , Bin Hu , Wei Du

Inferring spatial curvature of the Universe with high-fidelity is a longstanding interest in cosmology. However, the strong degeneracy between dark energy equation-of-state parameter $w$ and curvature density parameter $\Omega_{\rm K}$ has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-11 Yang Hu , Suhail Dhawan

We model the extremely massive and luminous lens galaxy in the Cosmic Horseshoe Einstein ring system, recently discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We use the semi-linear method of Warren & Dye (2003), which pixelises the source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Dye , N. W. Evans , V. Belokurov , S. J. Warren , P. Hewett

Strong lensing has developed into an important astrophysical tool for probing both cosmology and galaxies (their structures, formations, and evolutions). Now several hundreds of strong lens systems produced by massive galaxies have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shuo Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

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

Context. Existing samples of strong lenses have been assembled by giving priority to sample size, at the cost of having a complex selection function. With the advent of the next generation of wide-field photometric surveys, however, it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-15 Alessandro Sonnenfeld

The environments of deflectors in strong lensing systems affect our ability to test cosmological models and constrain evolutionary properties of galaxies. Here we measure the deflector scale (Einstein mass) and deflector environment (halo…

The accurate measurement of stellar masses over a wide range of galaxy properties is essential for better constraining models of galaxy evolution. Emission line galaxies (ELGs) tend to have better redshift estimates than continuum-selected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Gautam Nagaraj , Robin Ciardullo , Alex Lawson , William Bowman , Gregory Zeimann , Guang Yang , Caryl Gronwall