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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…
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…
Lens Modeling and Cosmological Inference from an Impure Sample of Galaxy-Galaxy Strong Lenses
Philip Holloway, Aprajita Verma, Philip J. Marshall +7
The start of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time marks a new era for strong lensing science, where the number of strong lenses identified is expected to increase to $\mathcal{O}(10…
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…
Strong Lensing Tomography: Double and pseudo multi-source plane strong gravitational lensing to constrain dark energy
Paras Sharma, Simon Birrer, Narayan Khadka +12
Tomographic measurements of gravitational lensing with different lens and source redshift distributions contain crucial information about the universe's relative expansion rate, an…
Accurate Galaxy Cluster Shear and Mass Calibration for LSST with AnaCal
Conghao Zhou, Xiangchong Li, Hao-Yi Wu +12
The observed abundance of galaxy clusters as a function of mass and redshift provides a powerful route to precision cosmology; a key challenge for cluster cosmology is to establish…
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…
A Consistent Implementation of Cluster Strong Lensing in Cosmological Simulation Light Cones
Cian Roche, Mark Vogelsberger, Michael McDonald +9
Galaxy cluster strong gravitational lensing plays a central role in precision cosmology, yet robust theoretical predictions have lagged behind an abundance of high-quality strong l…
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…
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…
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…
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…
JWST Lensed Quasar Dark Matter Survey III: Dark Matter Sensitive Flux Ratios and Warm Dark Matter Constraint from the Full Sample
R. E. Keeley, A. M. Nierenberg, D. Gilman +24
We present the full sample of measurements of the warm dust emission of 31 strongly-lensed, multiply imaged quasars, observed with JWST MIRI multiband imaging, which we use to cons…
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…
JWST lensed quasar dark matter survey IV: Stringent warm dark matter constraints from the joint reconstruction of extended lensed arcs and quasar flux ratios
D. Gilman, A. M. Nierenberg, T. Treu +23
We present a measurement of the free-streaming length of dark matter (DM) and subhalo abundance around 28 quadruple image strong lenses using observations from JWST MIRI presented…
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…
Analyzing Line-of-sight selection biases in galaxy-scale strong lensing with external convergence and shear
Xianzhe TZ Tang, Simon Birrer, Anowar J. Shajib +3
The upcoming Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will dramatically increase the number of strong gravitational lensing systems, requiring precise modeling…
The Roman View of Strong Gravitational Lenses
Bryce Wedig, Tansu Daylan, Simon Birrer +13
Galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses can constrain dark matter models and the Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmological paradigm at sub-galactic scales. Currently, there is a deart…
TDCOSMO XVII. New time delays in 22 lensed quasars from optical monitoring with the ESO-VST 2.6m and MPG 2.2m telescopes
Frédéric Dux, Martin Millon, Aymeric Galan +29
We present new time delays, the main ingredient of time delay cosmography, for 22 lensed quasars resulting from high-cadence r-band monitoring on the 2.6 m ESO VLT Survey Telescope…
The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics
Eleonora Di Valentino, Jackson Levi Said, Adam Riess +533
The standard model of cosmology has provided a good phenomenological description of a wide range of observations both at astrophysical and cosmological scales for several decades.…