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Table 1.

Typical order-of-magnitude values referred to in the text.

Quantity Value Comment
Time delay 106 s ∼12 days
Time delay uncertainty 10−6 s Conservative
Hubble constant 2 × 10−18 s−1 H0 = 70 km s−1 Mpc−1
Time between bursts 108 s ∼3 years
Relative time delay change 2 × 10−10 Between bursts, due to Hubble expansion
Lensing redshift 2 × 10−12 Due to Hubble expansion
Differential redshift uncertainty 10−14 From time-derivative of time delays
Image separation 1 arcsec
Transverse speed 300 km s−1
Proper motion 6 × 10−8 arcsec yr−1 Transverse speed at 1 Gpc
Motion-induced redshift 5 × 10−9
Galactocentric acceleration/c 8 × 10−19 s−1 250 km s−1 at 8.5 kpc, MacMillan et al. (2019)
Acceleration of lens/c 2.6 × 10−20 s−1 LMC acceleration for Milky Way

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