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

Ducourant, C., Teixeira, R., Vale-Cunha, P. H., Delchambre, L., Krone-Martins, A., Braine, J., Galluccio, L., Campion, J-F Le, Krinski-Moreira, O. S., Scarano, S., Boehm, C., Connor, T., Djorgovski, S. G., Graham, M. J., Jalan, P., Petit, Q., Klioner, S. A., Mignard, F., Negi, V., den Brok, J. Sebastian, Slezak, I., Slezak, E., Spindola-Duarte, C., Stern, D., Surdej, J., Sweeney, D., Walton, D. J. and Wambsganss, J. (2026) Gaia GraL X. : The GraL catalogue of gravitationally lensed quasars Matched with \textit{Gaia} data, redshifts, and time delays. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 707: A345. ISSN 0004-6361
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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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