5 papers
Investigating the Dark Energy Constraint from Strongly Lensed AGN at LSST-Scale
Sydney Erickson, Martin Millon, Padmavathi Venkatraman +12
The paper presents a scalable hierarchical inference framework to jointly analyze hundreds of strongly lensed AGN time delays from LSST, forecasting a ~2.5% measurement of H0 and a…
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 XXII: Triaxiality and projection effects in time-delay cosmography
Xiang-Yu Huang, Simon Birrer, Michele Cappellari +3
Constraining the mass-sheet degeneracy (MSD) is crucial for improving the precision and accuracy of time-delay cosmography. Joint analyses of lensing and stellar kinematics are wid…
Lens Model Accuracy in the Expected LSST Lensed AGN Sample
Padmavathi Venkatraman, Sydney Erickson, Phil Marshall +13
Strong gravitational lensing of active galactic nuclei (AGN) enables measurements of cosmological parameters through time-delay cosmography (TDC). With data from the upcoming LSST…