Publications (7)
The impact of human expert visual inspection on the discovery of strong gravitational lenses
Karina Rojas, Thomas E. Collett, Daniel Ballard +53
We investigate the ability of human 'expert' classifiers to identify strong gravitational lens candidates in Dark Energy Survey like imaging. We recruited a total of 55 people that…
Probing compact dark matter objects with microlensing in gravitationally lensed quasars
Petra Awad, James H. H. Chan, Martin Millon +2
The microlensing signal in the light curves of gravitationally lensed quasars can shed light on the dark matter (DM) composition in their lensing galaxies. Here, we investigate a s…
TDCOSMO. XXIII. Measurement of the Hubble constant from the doubly lensed quasar HE1104-1805
Eric Paic, Frédéric Courbin, Christopher D. Fassnacht +18
Time-delay cosmography leverages strongly lensed quasars to measure the Universe's current expansion rate, H_0, independently from other methods. While the latest TDCOSMO results r…
TDCOSMO 2025: Cosmological constraints from strong lensing time delays
TDCOSMO Collaboration, Simon Birrer, Elizabeth J. Buckley-Geer +30
We present cosmological constraints from 8 strongly lensed quasars (hereafter, the TDCOSMO-2025 sample). Building on previous work, our analysis incorporated new deflector stellar…
TDCOSMO XVII. New time delays in 22 lensed quasars from optical monitoring with the ESO-VST 2.6m and MPG 2.2m telescopes
Frédéric Dux, Martin Millon, Aymeric Galan +29
We present new time delays, the main ingredient of time delay cosmography, for 22 lensed quasars resulting from high-cadence r-band monitoring on the 2.6 m ESO VLT Survey Telescope…
The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) Community Science Book
Michael Koss, Nafisa Aftab, Steven W. Allen +395
The AXIS Community Science Book represents the collective effort of 592 scientists worldwide to define the transformative science enabled by the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (A…
Predicting High-magnification Events in Microlensed Quasars in the Era of LSST using Recurrent Neural Networks
Joshua Fagin, Eric Paic, Favio Neira +6
Upcoming widefield surveys, such as the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will monitor thousands of strongly lensed quasars over a 10 yr period. Many of t…