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astro-ph.CO2018★ 48 cited

Testing the speed of light over cosmological distances: the combination of strongly lensed and unlensed supernova Ia

Shuo Cao, Jingzhao Qi, Marek Biesiada +3

Probing the speed of light is as an important test of General Relativity but the measurements of using objects in the distant universe have been almost completely unexplored. I…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 22 cited

New probe of gravity: strongly lensed gravitational wave multi-messenger approach

Tao Yang, Bin Hu, Rong-Gen Cai +1

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies provides us with a unique opportunity to understand the nature of gravity on galactic and extra-galactic scales. In this paper, we propose…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 38 cited

Anomalies in Time Delays of Lensed Gravitational Waves and Dark Matter Substructures

Kai Liao, Xuheng Ding, Marek Biesiada +2

The cold dark matter scenario of hierarchical large-scale structure formation predicts the existence of abundant subhalos around large galaxies. However, the number of observed dwa…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 44 cited

Model-independent Test of the Cosmic Distance Duality Relation

Cheng-Zong Ruan, Fulvio Melia, Tong-Jie Zhang

A validation of the cosmic distance duality (CDD) relation, eta(z)=(1+z)^2 d_A(z)/d_L(z)=1, coupling the luminosity (d_L) and angular-diameter (d_A) distances, is crucial because i…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 18 cited

Spatial Distribution of Metals in the ICM: Evolution of the Iron Excess in Relaxed Galaxy Clusters

Ang Liu, Paolo Tozzi, Heng Yu +2

We investigate the spatial distribution of iron in the intra-cluster medium in a selected sample of 41 relaxed clusters in the redshift range using {\sl Chandra}…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 7 cited

The Quest for the Inflationary Spectral Runnings in the Presence of Systematic Errors

Xiaolei Li, Noah Weaverdyck, Saroj Adhikari +3

Cosmological inflation predicts that the scalar spectral index "runs" with scale. Constraints on the values of the spectral runnings, and…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 40 cited

Cosmology with Gravitational Wave/Fast Radio Burst Associations

Jun-Jie Wei, Xue-Feng Wu, He Gao

Recently, some theoretical models predicted that a small fraction of fast radio bursts (FRBs) could be associated with gravitational waves (GWs). In this work, we discuss the possi…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 7 cited

Cosmological Model Independent Time Delay Method

Yi Zhang, Xuewen Liu, Jingzhao Qi +1

We propose a Cosmological Model Independent Time Delay (CMITD) method where the Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) variable is constructed by observational data instead of c…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 7 cited

Statistical analysis with cosmic-expansion-rate measurements and two-point diagnostics

Xiaogang Zheng, Marek Biesiada, Xuheng Ding +3

Direct measurements of Hubble parameters are very useful for cosmological model parameters inference. Based on them, Sahni, Shafieloo and Starobinski introduced a two-point…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 45 cited

What is parameterized diagnostics telling us in light of recent observations?

Jing-Zhao Qi, Shuo Cao, Marek Biesiada +4

In this paper, we propose a new parametrization of diagnostics and show how the most recent and significantly improved observations concerning the and SN Ia measurem…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 67 cited

The distance sum rule from strong lensing systems and quasars - test of cosmic curvature and beyond

Jing-Zhao Qi, Shuo Cao, Sixuan Zhang +3

Testing the distance-sum-rule in strong lensing systems provides an interesting method to determine the curvature parameter using more local objects. In this paper, we apply…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 38 cited

Strongly gravitational lensed SNe Ia as multi-messengers: Direct test of the Friedmann-Lema\^ıtre-Robertson-Walker metric

Jing-Zhao Qi, Shou Cao, Marek Biesiada +3

We present a new idea of testing the validity of the Friedman-Lema\^ıtre-Robertson-Walker metric, through the multiple measurements of galactic-scale strong gravitational lensing s…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 8 cited

Co-evolution of supermassive black holes with galaxies from semi-analytic model: stochastic gravitational wave background and black hole clustering

Qing Yang, Bin Hu, Xiao-Dong Li

We study the co-evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with galaxies by means of semi-analytic model (SAM) of galaxy formation based on sub-halo merger trees built from Mill…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 29 cited

Curvature from strong gravitational lensing: a spatially closed Universe or systematics?

Zhengxiang Li, Xuheng Ding, Guo-Jian Wang +2

Model-independent constraints on the spatial curvature are not only closely related to important problems such as the evolution of the Universe and properties of dark energy, but a…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 41 cited

Cosmological inference from standard sirens without redshift measurements

Xuheng Ding, Marek Biesiada, Xiaogang Zheng +3

The purpose of this work is to investigate the prospects of using the future standard siren data without redshift measurements to constrain cosmological parameters. With successful…