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Strong gravitational lensing of sources with different redshifts has been used to determine cosmological distance ratios, which in turn depend on the expansion history. Hence, such systems are viewed as potential tools for constraining cosmological parameters. Here we show that in lens systems with two distinct source redshifts, of which the nearest one contributes to the light deflection towards the more distant one, there exists an invariance transformation which leaves all strong lensing observables unchanged (except the product of time delay and Hubble constant), generalizing the well-known mass-sheet transformation in single plane lens systems. The transformation preserves the relative distribution of mass and light, so that a `mass-follows-light assumption does not fix the MST. All time delays (from sources on both planes) scale with the same factor -- time-delay ratios are therefore invariant under the MST. Changing cosmological parameters, and thus distance ratios, is essentially equivalent to such a mass-sheet transformation. As an example, we discuss the double source plane system SDSSJ0946+1006, which has been recently studied by Collett and Auger, and show that variations of cosmological parameters within reasonable ranges lead to only a small mass-sheet transformation in both lens planes. Hence, the ability to extract cosmological information from such systems depends heavily on the ability to break the mass-sheet degeneracy.
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In this manuscript of the habilitation `a diriger des recherches (HDR), the author presents some of his work over the last ten years. The main topic of this thesis is cosmic shear, the distortion of images of distant galaxies due to weak gravitationa
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