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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 Case for Space: Estimating Precise Time Delays from Ground- and Space-Based Observations of Lensed Supernovae with Glimpse
Erin E. Hayes, Suhail Dhawan, Stephen Thorp +2
The delay in arrival time of the multiple images of gravitationally lensed supernovae (glSNe) can be related to the present-day expansion rate of the universe, . Despite the…
The impact of ultraviolet suppression on the rates and properties of strongly lensed Type IIn supernovae detected by LSST
Andrés I. Ponte Pérez, Graham P. Smith, Matt Nicholl +4
Upcoming wide-field time-domain surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) are expected to discover up to two orders of magnitude more…
Challenges and Opportunities for time-delay cosmography with multi-messenger gravitational lensing
Simon Birrer, Graham P. Smith, Anowar J. Shajib +2
Strong gravitational lensing of variable sources, such as quasars or supernovae, can be used to constrain cosmological parameters through a technique known as "time-delay cosmograp…
Microlensing of lensed supernovae Zwicky & iPTF16geu: constraints on the lens galaxy mass slope and dark compact object fraction
Nikki Arendse, Edvard Mörtsell, Luke Weisenbach +9
To date, only two strongly lensed type Ia supernovae (SNIa) have been discovered with an isolated galaxy acting as the lens: iPTF16geu and SN Zwicky. The observed image fluxes for…
LensWatch. II. Improved Photometry and Time-delay Constraints on the Strongly Lensed Type Ia Supernova 2022qmx ("SN Zwicky") with HST Template Observations
Conor Larison, Justin D. R. Pierel, Max J. B. Newman +34
Strongly lensed supernovae (SNe) are a rare class of transient that can offer tight cosmological constraints that are complementary to methods from other astronomical events. We pr…
Strong gravitational lenses from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Anowar J. Shajib, Graham P. Smith, Simon Birrer +6
Like many areas of astrophysics and cosmology, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be transformational for almost all the applications of strong lensing, thanks to the dramatic incr…
Detectability and Characterisation of Strongly Lensed Supernova Lightcurves in the Zwicky Transient Facility
A. Sagués Carracedo, A. Goobar, E. Mörtsell +7
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) was expected to detect more than one strong gravitationally-lensed supernova (glSN) per year, but only one event was identified in the first fou…
Candidate strongly lensed type Ia supernovae in the Zwicky Transient Facility archive
A. Townsend, J. Nordin, A. Sagués Carracedo +61
Gravitationally lensed type Ia supernovae (glSNe Ia) are unique astronomical tools that can be used to study cosmological parameters, distributions of dark matter, the astrophysics…
Detecting unresolved lensed SNe Ia in LSST using blended light curves
Satadru Bag, Simon Huber, Sherry H. Suyu +10
Strongly gravitationally lensed supernovae (LSNe) are promising probes for providing absolute distance measurements using gravitational-lens time delays. Spatially unresolved LSNe…
Lensed Type Ia Supernova "Encore" at z=2: The First Instance of Two Multiply-Imaged Supernovae in the Same Host Galaxy
J. D. R. Pierel, A. B. Newman, S. Dhawan +60
A bright (=24 mag), supernova (SN) candidate was discovered in JWST/NIRCam imaging acquired on 2023 November 17. The SN is quintuply-imaged as a result o…
JWST Photometric Time-Delay and Magnification Measurements for the Triply-Imaged Type Ia "Supernova H0pe" at z = 1.78
J. D. R. Pierel, B. L. Frye, M. Pascale +60
Supernova (SN) H0pe is a gravitationally lensed, triply-imaged, Type Ia SN (SN Ia) discovered in James Webb Space Telescope imaging of the PLCK G165.7+67.0 cluster of galaxies. Wel…
Detecting strongly-lensed type Ia supernovae with LSST
Nikki Arendse, Suhail Dhawan, Ana Sagués Carracedo +8
Strongly-lensed supernovae are rare and valuable probes of cosmology and astrophysics. Upcoming wide-field time-domain surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Surve…
GausSN: Bayesian Time-Delay Estimation for Strongly Lensed Supernovae
Erin E. Hayes, Stephen Thorp, Kaisey S. Mandel +3
We present GausSN, a Bayesian semi-parametric Gaussian Process (GP) model for time-delay estimation with resolved systems of gravitationally lensed supernovae (glSNe). GausSN model…
LensWatch: I. Resolved HST Observations and Constraints on the Strongly-Lensed Type Ia Supernova 2022qmx ("SN Zwicky")
J. D. R. Pierel, N. Arendse, S. Ertl +39
Supernovae (SNe) that have been multiply-imaged by gravitational lensing are rare and powerful probes for cosmology. Each detection is an opportunity to develop the critical tools…
Uncovering a population of gravitational lens galaxies with magnified standard candle SN Zwicky
Ariel Goobar, Joel Johansson, Steve Schulze +35
Detecting gravitationally lensed supernovae is among the biggest challenges in astronomy. It involves a combination of two very rare phenomena: catching the transient signal of a s…
A fast rising tidal disruption event from a candidate intermediate mass black hole
C. R. Angus, V. F. Baldassare, B. Mockler +36
Massive black holes (BHs) at the centres of massive galaxies are ubiquitous. The population of BHs within dwarf galaxies, on the other hand, is evasive. Dwarf galaxies are thought…
Cosmology Intertwined: A Review of the Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Associated with the Cosmological Tensions and Anomalies
Elcio Abdalla, Guillermo Franco Abellán, Amin Aboubrahim +200
In this paper we will list a few important goals that need to be addressed in the next decade, also taking into account the current discordances between the different cosmological…
A Carbon/Oxygen-dominated Atmosphere Days After Explosion for the "Super-Chandrasekhar" Type Ia SN 2020esm
Georgios Dimitriadis, Ryan J. Foley, Nikki Arendse +18
Seeing pristine material from the donor star in a Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) explosion can reveal the nature of the binary system. In this paper, we present photometric and spectros…
The Young Supernova Experiment: Survey Goals, Overview, and Operations
D. O. Jones, R. J. Foley, G. Narayan +68
Time domain science has undergone a revolution over the past decade, with tens of thousands of new supernovae (SNe) discovered each year. However, several observational domains, in…
Cosmology Intertwined IV: The Age of the Universe and its Curvature
Eleonora Di Valentino, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Ozgur Akarsu +88
A precise measurement of the curvature of the Universe is of primeval importance for cosmology since it could not only confirm the paradigm of primordial inflation but also help in…
Cosmology Intertwined III: and
Eleonora Di Valentino, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Ozgur Akarsu +89
The standard Cold Dark Matter cosmological model provides a wonderful fit to current cosmological data, but a few tensions and anomalies became statistically significant with t…
Cosmology Intertwined II: The Hubble Constant Tension
Eleonora Di Valentino, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Ozgur Akarsu +90
The current cosmological probes have provided a fantastic confirmation of the standard Cold Dark Matter cosmological model, that has been constrained with unprecedented accurac…
Cosmology Intertwined I: Perspectives for the Next Decade
Eleonora Di Valentino, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Ozgur Akarsu +89
The standard Cold Dark Matter cosmological model provides an amazing description of a wide range of astrophysical and astronomical data. However, there are a few big open quest…