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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 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…
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…
HST imaging, pipeline modeling, and time-delay predictions of 2 triply-imaged and 15 quadruply-imaged lensed quasars
William Sheu, Tommaso Treu, Adriano Agnello +10
The Hubble tension remains a significant challenge in modern cosmology, exhibiting a discrepancy between early-Universe cosmic microwave background measurements and local distance…
Constraining the Physical Properties of Quadruply Lensed Quasars using Optical-to-X-Ray Data
Kriti Kamal Gupta, Dominique Sluse, Maarten Baes +5
Gravitational lensing of luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN; or quasars) can be used as a natural telescope to zoom in on their inner structures. With more and more lensed AGN be…
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…
Spatially Resolved Nebular-Stellar Reddening with JWST/NIRISS
Peter J. Watson, Benedetta Vulcani, Tommaso Treu +7
An accurate determination of the dust attenuation within galaxies is essential to derive key physical properties such as the star formation rate (SFR). We present an analysis using…
Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XXVI. Spatially Resolved Star Formation and Balmer Decrements at from NIRISS Slitless Spectroscopy
Pengfei Ren, Xin Wang, Yuxuan Pang +10
Using JWST/NIRISS slitless spectroscopy, we present spatially resolved Balmer decrement measurements for 79 galaxies at , which are gravitationally lensed by the for…
The free-streaming length of dark matter from JWST observations of 28 strong gravitational lenses
D. Gilman, A. M. Nierenberg, T. Treu +24
The formation of gravitationally bound overdensities of dark matter (DM), or \textit{halos}, is a generic prediction of theories with particle DM. We present a measurement of halo…
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…
Revisiting the mass metallicity relation and the fundamental metallicity relation of dwarf galaxies at cosmic noon with NIRISS
Xianlong He, Zihao Li, Xin Wang +6
We extend the stellar-mass gas-phase metallicity relation (MZR) at down to the extremely low-mass regime using 183 galaxies with , based…
Can BLR line profile shape improve single-epoch black hole mass estimates?
Lizvette Villafaña, Tommaso Treu, Shu Wang +7
The virial coefficient (), which is meant to encapsulate broad-line region (BLR) geometry and kinematics, remains one of the largest sources of systematic uncertainty in black h…
Dynamical Modeling of the Broad-Line Region with High-Mass Active Galactic Nuclei and Constraints on the Virial Factor
Shu Wang, Jong-Hak Woo, Lizvette Villafaña +2
We present the results of broad-line region (BLR) dynamical modeling for eight high-mass active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project, by…
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…
BEACON: JWST NIRCam Pure-parallel Imaging Survey. III. Constraints on the UV LF and the Clustering of z~7-14 Galaxies
Kimi C. Kreilgaard, Charlotte A. Mason, Takahiro Morishita +21
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has extended the frontier of galaxy detection to redshifts z>11, finding a high abundance of UV-bright sources that challenge theoretical mode…
Measurement of the minimum cold dark matter halo mass with strong gravitational lensing
A. M. Nierenberg, D. Gilman, T. Treu +19
We explore the lowest mass limit that can be placed on the halo mass function in CDM using 28 strong gravitational lenses. For this purpose, we study an extreme model in which the…
Revisiting the Claim for a Direct-Collapse Black Hole in UHZ1 at
Fan Zou, Elena Gallo, Zihao Zuo +8
We reassess the direct collapse black hole (DCBH) interpretation of UHZ1 (UNCOVER-26185), a gravitationally lensed galaxy at . That interpretation rests on…
MAGNUS III: Mild evolution of the total density slope in massive early-type galaxies since z1 from dynamical modeling of MUSE integral-field stellar kinematics
Pritom Mozumdar, Michele Cappellari, Christopher D. Fassnacht +1
We investigate the total mass density slope evolution in massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) over the last 6.5 billion years (). We perform a detailed dynamical analys…
The Host Galaxies of Active Galactic Nuclei with Direct Black Hole Mass Measurements
Vardha N. Bennert, Nico Winkel, Tommaso Treu +13
Reverberation mapping (RM) determines the mass of black holes (BH) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by resolving the BH gravitational sphere of influence in the time domain. Recent…
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…
HST Confirms Sub-5 kpc Dual Quasar Pairs at Cosmic Noon
Qian Wang, Xuheng Ding, John Silverman +12
During cosmic noon (), when both star formation and black hole growth peaked, galaxy mergers are predicted to trigger dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) that eventually co…