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The Hubble time inferred from 10 time-delay lenses

P. Saha, J. Coles, A. V. Maccio', L. L. R. Williams

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0607240

Abstract

We present a simultaneous analysis of 10 galaxy lenses having time-delay measurements. For each lens we derive a detailed free-form mass map, with uncertainties, and with the additional requirement of a shared value of the Hubble parameter across all the lenses. We test the prior involved in the lens reconstruction against a galaxy-formation simulation. Assuming a concordance cosmology, we obtain 1/H0 = 13.5 (+2.5/-1.3) Gyr

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