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Gaia GraL X.: The GraL catalogue of gravitationally lensed quasars Matched with \textit{Gaia} data, redshifts, and time delays

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C. Ducourant, R. Teixeira, P. H. Vale-Cunha, L. Delchambre, A. Krone-Martins, J. Braine, L. Galluccio, J-F. Le Campion, O. S. Krinski-Moreira, S. Scarano, C. Boehm, T. Connor, S. G. Djorgovski, M. J. Graham, P. Jalan, Q. Petit, S. A. Klioner, F. Mignard, V. Negi, J. Sebastian den Brok, I. Slezak, E. Slezak, C. Spindola-Duarte, D. Stern, J. Surdej, D. Sweeney, D. J. Walton, J. Wambsganss

Abstract

Determining the Hubble constant tension requires alternative strategies, and multiply imaged quasars, with their intermediate redshifts, can potentially be used in this regard. We provide a currently complete catalogue of spectroscopically confirmed lensed quasars with ESA/{\it Gaia} astrometry and photometry, as well as redshifts and time delays when available. In addition to the improved astrometry, the catalogue increases the number of lensed quasars by a factor of 1.5 (now 364, of which 277 are doubles and 87 are quads or triples) and significantly increases the number of lensing galaxies detected (now 218), which represents a major step forward. Redshifts are provided for 347 quasars and 188 deflectors. A completely new table of time delays, required for estimates of $H_0$, is presented, with 195 time delays from 73 systems. {\it Gaia} absolute astrometry is sub-milliarcsecond and covers the entire sky. Future {\it Gaia} data releases will provide long-term photometry, which should provide many more time delays. The catalogues as presented here enable machine-learning techniques to be trained and tested and subsequently applied to the {\it Gaia} data releases. Finally, we derive simple but homogeneous models of the 18 quadruply imaged quasars for which images of all four components are presented in {\it Gaia} DR3.}

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arXiv ID: 2603.12810
Provider: ARXIV
Primary Category: astro-ph.GA
Published: 2026-03-13
Fetched: 2026-03-16 06:01

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