Accurate cosmology from gravitational-lens time delays
Abstract
The time delays between the multiple images of a strong gravitational-lens system, together with a model of the lens-mass distribution, provide a one-step determination of the time-delay distance, and thus a measure of cosmological parameters, particularly the Hubble constant, H0. I review the recent advances in measuring time-delay distances, and present the current status of cosmological constraints based on gravitational-lens time delays. In particular, I report the time-delay distance measurements of two gravitational lenses and their implication for cosmology from a recent study by Suyu et al.
- Publication:
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Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances
- Pub Date:
- February 2013
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2013IAUS..289..331S
- Keywords:
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- distance scale;
- gravitational lensing