Strong lensing time-delay cosmography in the 2020s

T Treu, SH Suyu, PJ Marshall - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2022 - Springer
Multiply imaged time-variable sources can be used to measure absolute distances as a
function of redshifts and thus determine cosmological parameters, chiefly the Hubble …

Microlensing of strongly lensed quasars

G Vernardos, D Sluse, D Pooley, RW Schmidt… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Strong gravitational lensing of quasars has the potential to unlock the poorly understood
physics of these fascinating objects, as well as serve as a probe of the lensing mass …

STRIDES: automated uniform models for 30 quadruply imaged quasars

T Schmidt, T Treu, S Birrer, AJ Shajib… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Gravitational time delays provide a powerful one-step measurement of H 0, independent of
all other probes. One key ingredient in time-delay cosmography are high-accuracy lens …

TDCOSMO-X. Automated modeling of nine strongly lensed quasars and comparison between lens-modeling software

S Ertl, S Schuldt, SH Suyu, T Schmidt, T Treu… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
When strong gravitational lenses are to be used as an astrophysical or cosmological probe,
models of their mass distributions are often needed. We present a new, time-efficient …

HST Strong-lensing Model for the First JWST Galaxy Cluster SMACS J0723. 3− 7327

M Golubchik, LJ Furtak, AK Meena… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract On 2022 July 8, NASA shared (https://www. nasa. gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-
shares-list-of-cosmic-targets-for-webb-telescope-s-first-images) the list of five public …

Essentials of strong gravitational lensing

P Saha, D Sluse, J Wagner, LLR Williams - Space Science Reviews, 2024 - Springer
Of order one in 10 3 quasars and high-redshift galaxies appears in the sky as multiple
images as a result of gravitational lensing by unrelated galaxies and clusters that happen to …

Line-of-sight effects in strong gravitational lensing

P Fleury, J Larena, JP Uzan - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
While most strong-gravitational-lensing systems may be roughly modelled by a single
massive object between the source and the observer, in the details all the structures near …

The missing quasar image in the gravitationally lensed quasar HE0230− 2130: Implications for the cored lens mass distribution and dark satellites

S Ertl, S Schuldt, SH Suyu, PL Schechter… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Strongly lensed systems with peculiar configurations allow us to probe the local properties of
the deflecting lens mass while simultaneously testing general profile assumptions. The …

Gravitational lensing formalism in a curved arc basis: A continuous description of observables and degeneracies from the weak to the strong lensing regime

S Birrer - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitationally lensed curved arcs provide a wealth of information about the underlying
lensing distortions. Extracting precise lensing information from extended sources is a key …

A Mock Catalog of Gravitationally-lensed Quasars for the LSST Survey

M Yue, X Fan, J Yang, F Wang - The Astronomical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a mock catalog of gravitationally-lensed quasars at z qso< 7.5 with simulated
images for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). We adopt …