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TDCOSMO 2026: new insights on the Hubble tension from strong lensing time delays
TDCOSMO Collaboration, Simon Birrer, Michele Cappellari +26
We discuss the measurement of the Hubble constant () in flat cold dark matter cosmology based on the blind hierarchical analysis of 11 multiply-imaged quasars (hereafter t…
TDCOSMO 2026: A 3% measurement of the Hubble constant from strong lensing and stellar kinematics
TDCOSMO Collaboration, Simon Birrer, Michele Cappellari +26
We present cosmological constraints from 11 strongly lensed quasars with measured time delays (hereafter, the TDCOSMO-2026 sample). In addition to expanding the sample, we improve…
TDCOSMO XXX: Spatially resolved kinematics of the deflectors in time-delay lens systems B1608+656 and SDSSJ1206+4332 from JWST-NIRSpec observation
Pritom Mozumdar, Shawn Knabel, Anowar J. Shajib +3
We present spatially resolved stellar kinematics of the deflector galaxies in two time-delay lens systems, B1608+656 and SDSS J1206+4332, measured from JWST NIRSpec integral field…
TDCOSMO XXIX: JWST/NIRSpec IFU Spatially Resolved Kinematics of Three Time-delay Lenses
Shawn Knabel, Pritom Mozumdar, Anowar J. Shajib +8
Spatially resolved stellar kinematics are critical to the high precision achieved by cosmological probes utilizing time delays of strongly lensed quasars. Combined with high-resolu…
TDCOSMO. XXVII. JWST-based Lens Models and H Measurement of WFI2033, HE0435, and PG1115
D. M. Williams, T. Treu, D. P. Johnson +13
Time-delay cosmography offers a one-step, distance-ladder-independent route to the Hubble-Lemaitre constant, H_0. We present new cosmography-grade lens models of three quadruply im…
Can third- and fourth-order multipoles plus radial variation of iso-density ellipses explain the observed flux ratios in B1422231? YES, and a lesson learned from a TNG100 lensing galaxy sample
Ruizhe Feng, Dandan Xu, Dominique Sluse +3
Flux ratio anomalies in multiply-imaged quasar lenses are a long-standing issue. Using a classical system B1422+231 as a case study, we investigate how typical non-clumpy perturbat…
First measurement of narrow-line flux ratios for a lensed quasar with JWST/NIRSpec IFS
Hadrien Paugnat, Tommaso Treu, Anna M. Nierenberg +3
Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of dark matter (DM) structure on subgalactic scales: in particular, statistics of flux-ratio anomalies (discrepancies between mass…
JAXtronomy: A JAX port of lenstronomy
Alan Huang, Simon Birrer, Daniel Gilman +4
Gravitational lensing is a phenomenon where light bends around massive objects, resulting in distorted images seen by an observer. Studying gravitationally lensed systems provides…
TDCOSMO XXV: Measuring H0 to 6.5% precision with quasar strong lensing and maximally flexible mass-sheet dynamics
William Sheu, Tommaso Treu, Martin Millon +16
We present a blind time-delay cosmography measurement of the Hubble-Lemaître constant based on the quadruply imaged quasar SDSSJ1433+6007. Our analysis combines deep Hubble S…
Spatially Resolved Kinematics of SLACS Lens Galaxies. II: Breaking Degeneracies with Lensing and Dynamical Models
Shawn Knabel, Tommaso Treu, Michele Cappellari +4
We model the dynamical mass density profiles of 14 strong gravitational lens galaxies from the Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) sample using spatially resolved kinematics obtained from Keck…
TDCOSMO XXVI: Uniform lens modeling of eight doubly imaged quasars
Ryan Brady, Xiang-Yu Huang, Simon Birrer +7
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 c…
SLSim: a strong lensing population simulation package
Narayan Khadka, Simon Birrer, Henry Best +45
Gravitational lensing offers unique insights into cosmology by bending light around massive objects. Strong gravitational lensing, in particular, produces magnified and often multi…
The Carousel Lens I: A Spectroscopic Survey of the Carousel Lens Field
Jackson H. O'Donnell, Demetrius Y. Williams, Tesla E. Jeltema +18
We present a spectroscopic survey of field galaxies and lensed sources in the vicinity of the strong lensing galaxy cluster known as the Carousel lens at z=0.49. Using both Gemini/…