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astro-ph.CO2022

STRIDES: Automated uniform models for 30 quadruply imaged quasars

T. Schmidt, T. Treu, S. Birrer +68

Gravitational time delays provide a powerful one step measurement of , independent of all other probes. One key ingredient in time delay cosmography are high accuracy lens mod…

astro-ph.GA2020

Is every strong lens model unhappy in its own way? Uniform modelling of a sample of 13 quadruply+ imaged quasars

A. J. Shajib, S. Birrer, T. Treu +70

Strong-gravitational lens systems with quadruply-imaged quasars (quads) are unique probes to address several fundamental problems in cosmology and astrophysics. Although they are i…

astro-ph.GA2021

Strong lens systems search in the Dark Energy Survey using Convolutional Neural Networks

K. Rojas, E. Savary, B. Clément +8

We performed a search for strong lens galaxy-scale systems in the first data release of the Dark Energy Survey (DES), from a color-selected parent sample of 18~745~029 Luminous Red…

astro-ph.HE2022

X-ray Absorption and Reprocessing in the Lensed Quasar 2MASS J1042+1641

D. J. Walton, M. T. Reynolds, D. Stern +2

We present new broadband X-ray observations of the lensed quasar 2MASS J1042+1641, combining -, and to provide coverage of the X-ray sp…

astro-ph.CO2020

TDCOSMO II: 6 new time delays in lensed quasars from high-cadence monitoring at the MPIA 2.2m telescope

M. Millon, F. Courbin, V. Bonvin +25

We present six new time-delay measurements obtained from -band monitoring data acquired at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPIA) 2.2 m telescope at La Silla observa…

astro-ph.GA2019

The STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) 2017/2018 follow-up campaign: Discovery of 10 lensed quasars and 10 quasar pairs

C. Lemon, M. W. Auger, R. McMahon +65

We report the results of the STRong lensing Insights from the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) follow-up campaign of the late 2017/early 2018 season. We obtained spectra of 65 lensed q…

astro-ph.CO2024

J1721+8842: The first Einstein zig-zag lens

F. Dux, M. Millon, C. Lemon +16

We report the discovery of the first example of an Einstein zig-zag lens, an extremely rare lensing configuration. In this system, J1721+8842, six images of the same background qua…

astro-ph.CO2020

STRIDES: a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408-5354

A. J. Shajib, S. Birrer, T. Treu +88

We present a blind time-delay cosmographic analysis for the lens system DES J04085354. This system is extraordinary for the presence of two sets of multiple images at different…

astro-ph.GA2018

A Gravitationally Lensed Quasar Discovered in OGLE

Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, S. Kozłowski, C. Lemon +15

We report the discovery of a new gravitationally lensed quasar (double) from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) identified inside the 670 sq. deg area encomp…

astro-ph.CO2022

Strong lensing in UNIONS: Toward a pipeline from discovery to modeling

E. Savary, K. Rojas, M. Maus +16

We present a search for galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses in the initial 2 500 square degrees of the Canada-France Imaging Survey (CFIS). We designed a convolutional neural…

astro-ph.CO2020

COSMOGRAIL XIX: Time delays in 18 strongly lensed quasars from 15 years of optical monitoring

M. Millon, F. Courbin, V. Bonvin +16

We present the results of 15 years of monitoring lensed quasars, which was conducted by the COSMOGRAIL programme at the Leonhard Euler 1.2m Swiss Telescope. The decade-long light c…

astro-ph.CO2024

JWST Lensed quasar dark matter survey II: Strongest gravitational lensing limit on the dark matter free streaming length to date

Ryan E. Keeley, Anna M. Nierenberg, Daniel Gilman +20

This is the second in a series of papers in which we use JWST MIRI multiband imaging to measure the warm dust emission in a sample of 31 multiply imaged quasars, to be used as a pr…

astro-ph.GA2022

Gravitationally lensed quasars in Gaia -- IV. 150 new lenses, quasar pairs, and projected quasars

C. Lemon, T. Anguita, M. Auger +8

We report the spectroscopic follow-up of 175 lensed quasar candidates selected using Gaia Data Release 2 observations following Lemon et al. 2019. Systems include 86 confirmed lens…

astro-ph.EP2026

Euclid: Asteroid rotation periods from the Euclid Ecliptic Survey

B. Y. Irureta-Goyena, B. Altieri, J. -P. Kneib +142

The Euclid Ecliptic Survey was conducted during the calibration phase of the mission, 23-31 December 2023, as a campaign to study Solar System objects. We used data from this surve…

astro-ph.GA2022

Evidence for a milliparsec-separation Supermassive Binary Black Hole with quasar microlensing

M. Millon, C. Dalang, C. Lemon +4

We report periodic oscillations in the 15-year long optical light curve of the gravitationally lensed quasar QJ0158-4325. The signal is enhanced during a high magnification microle…

astro-ph.GA2026

Searching for strong lensing by late-type galaxies in UNIONS

J. A. Acevedo Barroso, B. Clément, F. Courbin +8

Recent wide-field galaxy surveys have led to an explosion in the number of galaxy-scale strong gravitational lens candidates. However, the vast majority of them feature massive lum…

astro-ph.GA2021

HOLISMOKES -- II. Identifying galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses in Pan-STARRS using convolutional neural networks

R. Canameras, S. Schuldt, S. H. Suyu +6

We present a systematic search for wide-separation (Einstein radius >1.5"), galaxy-scale strong lenses in the 30 000 sq.deg of the Pan-STARRS 3pi survey on the Northern sky. With l…

astro-ph.CO2021

Finding quadruply imaged quasars with machine learning. I. Methods

A. Akhazhanov, A. More, A. Amini +68

Strongly lensed quadruply imaged quasars (quads) are extraordinary objects. They are very rare in the sky -- only a few tens are known to date -- and yet they provide unique inform…

astro-ph.GA2021

Discovery of Strongly Lensed Quasars in the Ultraviolet Near Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS)

J. H. H. Chan, C. Lemon, F. Courbin +13

We report the discovery of five new doubly-imaged lensed quasars from the first 2500 square degrees of the ongoing Canada-France Imaging Survey (CFIS), which is a component of the…

astro-ph.GA2017

Models of the strongly lensed quasar DES J0408-5354

Adriano Agnello, Huan Lin, L. Buckley-Geer +82

We present gravitational lens models of the multiply imaged quasar DES J0408-5354, recently discovered in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) footprint, with the aim of interpreting its r…

astro-ph.CO2023

JWST lensed quasar dark matter survey I: Description and First Results

A. M. Nierenberg, R. E. Keeley, D. Sluse +18

The flux ratios of gravitationally lensed quasars provide a powerful probe of the nature of dark matter. Importantly, these ratios are sensitive to small-scale structure, irrespect…

astro-ph.GA2021

J17218842: a gravitationally lensed binary quasar with a proximate damped Lyman- absorber

C. Lemon, M. Millon, D. Sluse +5

High-redshift binary quasars provide key insights into mergers and quasar activity, and are useful tools for probing the spatial kinematics and chemistry of galaxies along the line…

astro-ph.CO2025

A Reassessment of the Pantheon+ and DES 5YR Calibration Uncertainties: Dovekie

B. Popovic, W. D. Kenworthy, M. Ginolin +21

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are crucial tools to measure the accelerating expansion of the universe, comprising thousands of SNe across multiple telescopes. Accurate measurements o…

astro-ph.CO2018

The STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) 2016 follow-up campaign. I. Overview and classification of candidates selected by two techniques

T. Treu, A. Agnello, M. A. Baumer +79

The primary goals of the STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) collaboration are to measure the dark energy equation of state parameter and the free streami…