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most citedH0LiCOW XIII. A 2.4% measurement of from lensed quasars: tension between early and late-Universe probes

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astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

JWST lensed quasar dark matter survey V: Hints of self-interacting dark matter from 29 quadruply imaged quasars

D. Gilman, A. M. Nierenberg, J. Gurian +21

Theories of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) predict the eventual core collapse of dark matter halos, a process that transforms these structures into extremely efficient gravita…

astro-ph.CO2026

TDCOSMO XXXI: New techniques in line-of-sight studies of time delay lenses

Daniel Johnson, Devon Williams, Chris Fassnacht +5

The distribution of matter along the same line of sight but external to the main lens, quantified by , is a key source of uncertainty in time delay cosmography and…

astro-ph.IM2026

ALPACA I: Controlling source and PSF systematics in JWST time-delay cosmography with differentiable lens modeling

Hrvoje Krizic, Martin Millon, Aymeric Galan +2

Time-delay cosmography provides an independent probe of the Hubble constant (), but exploiting the high-resolution imaging of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) requires st…

astro-ph.CO2026

TDCOSMO XXVIII. The Hubble constant from the quadruply lensed quasar J15373010 with precise time delays

A. Galan, A. G. Schweinfurth, S. H. Suyu +21

We present the first measurement of the Hubble constant () from the quadruply-lensed quasar J15373010, which has optically-measured time delays at precision. We…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmic CORALS: Timing the Universe with high-z star clusters

Elena Tomasetti, Martin Millon, Licia Verde +5

In this work, we explore the potential of anchoring the age-redshift relation across cosmic time by probing the oldest star clusters at high redshift, now observed thanks to the Ja…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). AstroVink: A vision transformer approach to find strong gravitational lens systems

Euclid Collaboration, S. H. Vincken, K. Rojas +302

We present AstroVink, a vision transformer classifier designed for automated identification of strong lens candidates in Euclid imaging. We build upon the DINOv2 encoder, fine tune…

astro-ph.GA2026

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). AgileLens: A scalable CNN-based pipeline for strong gravitational lens identification

Euclid Collaboration, X. Xu, R. Chen +308

We present an end-to-end, iterative pipeline for efficient identification of strong galaxy--galaxy lensing systems, applied to the Euclid Q1 imaging data. Starting from VIS catalog…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). The Strong Lensing Discovery Engine F -- Bright and low-redshift strong lenses

Euclid Collaboration, L. R. Ecker, M. Fabricius +346

We present 72 additional galaxy-galaxy strong lenses that complement the sample discovered in the Euclid Quick Release 1 data (63.1 deg^2) of the Strong Lens Discovery Engine (SLDE…

astro-ph.CO2026

Kinematic cosmic dipole from a large sample of strong lenses

Martin Millon, Charles Dalang, Thomas Collett +1

Measurements of the kinematic cosmic dipole continue to show an intriguing tension between the value inferred from the CMB and that obtained from high-redshift source number counts…

astro-ph.CO2026

Degeneracies and modelling choices in double-plane time-delay cosmography

Daniel Johnson, Pierre Fleury, Martin Millon

Double-plane gravitational lensing is a rare but increasingly observed phenomenon in which the light from a distant source is lensed by two foreground objects at different redshift…

astro-ph.IM2026

Opportunities in AI/ML for the Rubin LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, Eric Aubourg, Camille Avestruz +63

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will produce unprecedented volumes of heterogeneous astronomical data (images, catalogs, and alerts) that cha…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

Quasars acting as Strong Lenses Found in DESI DR1

Everett McArthur, Martin Millon, Meredith Powell +52

Quasars acting as strong gravitational lenses offer a rare opportunity to probe the redshift evolution of scaling relations between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Investigating the Dark Energy Constraint from Strongly Lensed AGN at LSST-Scale

Sydney Erickson, Martin Millon, Padmavathi Venkatraman +12

Strongly lensed Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) with an observable time delay can be used to constrain the expansion history of the Universe through time-delay cosmography (TDC). As t…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

HOLISMOKES XIX: SN 2025wny at , the first strongly lensed superluminous supernova

Stefan Taubenberger, Ana Acebron, Raoul Cañameras +45

We present imaging and spectroscopic observations of supernova SN 2025wny, associated with the lens candidate PS1 J0716+3821. Photometric monitoring from the Lulin and Maidanak obs…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Cosmology with supernova Encore in the strong lensing cluster MACS J0138-2155: Time delays & Hubble constant measurement

J. D. R. Pierel, E. E. Hayes, M. Millon +26

Multiply-imaged supernovae (SNe) provide a novel means of constraining the Hubble constant (). Such measurements require a combination of precise models of the lensing mass di…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 12 cited

Cosmology with supernova Encore in the strong lensing cluster MACS J0138-2155: Lens model comparison and H0 measurement

S. H. Suyu, A. Acebron, C. Grillo +28

MACS J0138-2155 is the only known cluster to strongly lens two supernovae (SNe), Requiem and Encore, from the same host galaxy at z=1.949. We present seven independent mass models…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 38 cited

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…