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Helbig Phillip

ORCID
0000-0003-3637-0057
Main Referenced Co-authors
Browne, I. W. A. (11)
Wilkinson, P. N. (10)
Marlow, D. R. (8)
de Bruyn, A. G. (7)
Fassnacht, C. D. (7)
Main Referenced Keywords
cosmological parameters (20); cosmology: theory (20); cosmology: miscellaneous (10); gravitational lensing (10); cosmology: history (9);
Main Referenced Disciplines
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics (79)

Publications (total 79)

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P. Helbig. "Cosmological Distances: Calculation of distances in cosmological models with small-scale inhomogeneities and their use in observational cosmology." Unpublished doctoral thesis, ULiège - Université de Liège, 2021.
Jury: Jury: C. Barbier (Promotor), M.-A. Dupret, M. Tytgat, J. Surdej, R. Stabell, and L. Delchambre. . https://hdl.handle.net/2268/264058

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I. W. A. Browne, P. N. Wilkinson, N. J. F. Jackson, S. T. Myers, C. D. Fassnacht, L. V. E. Koopmans, D. R. Marlow et al. "The Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey - II. Gravitational lens candidate selection and follow-up." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 341, no. 1 (01 May 2003): 13-32. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06257.x https://hdl.handle.net/2268/245822

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P. Helbig. "Arguments against the flatness problem in classical cosmology: a review." European Physical Journal H. Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics, 46, no. 1 (December 2021): 10. doi:10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00006-9
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P. Helbig. "Calculation of distances in cosmological models with small-scale inhomogeneities and their use in observational cosmology: a review." Open Journal of Astrophysics, 3 (01 January 2020): 1. doi:10.21105/astro.1912.12269
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P. Helbig. "The m-z relation for Type Ia supernovae: safety in numbers or safely without worry?." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453, no. 4 (01 November 2015): 3975-3979. doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1796
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I. W. A. Browne, P. N. Wilkinson, N. J. F. Jackson, S. T. Myers, C. D. Fassnacht, L. V. E. Koopmans, D. R. Marlow et al. "The Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey - II. Gravitational lens candidate selection and follow-up." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 341, no. 1 (01 May 2003): 13-32. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06257.x
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R. Kayser, P. Helbig, and T. Schramm. "A general and practical method for calculating cosmological distances." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 318, no. 3 (01 February 1997): 680-686.
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P. Helbig. "Correction to: Redshift drift and strong gravitational lensing." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528, no. 2 (23 January 2024): 1582-1582. doi:10.1093/mnras/stae125
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P. Helbig. "Increasing crescents." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 143, no. 1294 (01 June 2023): 131.
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P. Helbig. "Redshift drift and strong gravitational lensing." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519, no. 2 (February 2023): 2769–2772. doi:10.1093/mnras/stac3623
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P. Helbig. "Conserved quantities in cosmology." Paper presented at 31st Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Prague, Czechia, 12 September 2022.
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P. Helbig. "Don't take it from me: literature overview of arguments against the flatness problem." Poster session presented at 31st Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Prague, Czechia, 12 September 2022.
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P. Helbig. "Received Wisdom." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 142, no. 1289 (01 August 2022): 142–156.
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P. Helbig. "Other losses." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 142, no. 1288 (01 June 2022): 114–115.
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P. Helbig. "On the absence of flat star clusters." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 142, no. 1286 (01 February 2022): 12–13.
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P. Helbig. "Conserved quantities in cosmology." In 2022 Cosmology: Proceedings of the 56th Rencontres de Moriondby É. Augé and J. Dumarchez, 333–334. France: ARISF, 2022.
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P. Helbig. "Arguments against the flatness problem." In 2022 Cosmology: Proceedings pf the 56th Rencontres de Moriondby É. Augé and J. Dumarchez, 331–332. 979-10-96879-16-8. ARISF, 2022.
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P. Helbig. "Arguments against the flatness problem in classical cosmology: a review." European Physical Journal H. Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics, 46, no. 1 (December 2021): 10. doi:10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00006-9
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P. Helbig. "Cosmological Distances: Calculation of distances in cosmological models with small-scale inhomogeneities and their use in observational cosmology." Unpublished doctoral thesis, ULiège - Université de Liège, 2021.
Jury: Jury: C. Barbier (Promotor), M.-A. Dupret, M. Tytgat, J. Surdej, R. Stabell, and L. Delchambre. .

P. Helbig. "Kapteyn in Leiden." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 141, no. 1284 (01 October 2021): 247–248.
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P. Helbig. "Fifty Years of the Flatness Problem." Paper presented at Cosmology from Home, Auckland, New Zealand, 05 July 2021.

P. Helbig. "Can’t get there from here? Curious logic in the famous paper by Einstein and de Sitter." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 141, no. 1282 (01 June 2021): 117–121.
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P. Helbig. "The Elephant in the Open-Access Room." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 141, no. 1282 (01 June 2021): 133–136.
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P. Helbig. "Don’t Mention the War." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 141, no. 1282 (01 June 2021): 136–137.
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P. Helbig. "Sonne und mond, or, the good, the bad, and the ugly: Comments on the debate between mond and acdm." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 140, no. 1279 (01 December 2020): 225-247.
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P. Helbig. "Whatever happened to the Dyer-Roeder distance?." The Observatory, 140, no. 1277 (01 August 2020): 128-144.
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P. Helbig. "Otto Heckmann: Friend or Foe?." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 140, no. 1276 (01 June 2020): 92-94.
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P. Helbig. "Chess-playing armchair cosmologists." The Observatory, 140, no. 1276 (01 June 2020): 94-98.
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P. Helbig. "The flatness problem and the age of the Universe." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495, no. 4 (24 April 2020): 3571–3575. doi:10.1093/mnras/staa1082
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P. Helbig. "Calculation of distances in cosmological models with small-scale inhomogeneities and their use in observational cosmology: a review." Open Journal of Astrophysics, 3 (01 January 2020): 1. doi:10.21105/astro.1912.12269
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P. Helbig. "The flatness problem and the age of the Universe." Poster session presented at 30th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, December 2019.

P. Helbig. "Further Discussion of the Speeds of Light, Gravitational Waves, and Gravity." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 139, no. 1268 (01 February 2019): 5-7.
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P. Helbig. "The Big Bang: who really first suggested it?." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 138, no. 1267 (01 December 2018): 305-306.
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P. Helbig. "Life, the Multiverse, and Fine-Tuning: Do Probabilities Matter?." Poster session presented at Cosmology 2018 in Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 2018.

P. Helbig. "A formula for confusion." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 138, no. 1262 (01 February 2018): 22-25.
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P. Helbig and J. Overduin. "Which flatness problem does inflation solve?." Poster session presented at 29th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Cape Town, South Africa, December 2017.

The Cambridge Photographic Atlas of Galaxies. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

P. Helbig. "The magnitude-redshift relation for type Ia supernovae, locally inhomogeneous cosmological models, and the nature of dark matter." In 2016 Cosmology: Proceedings of the 51st RENCONTRES DE MORIONDedited by E. Augé,, J. Dumarchez, and J. Trân Thanh Vân, 171-174. ARISF, 2016.

P. Helbig. "The m-z relation for type Ia supernovae, locally inhomogeneous cosmological models, and the nature of dark matter." In https://indico.cern.ch/event/336103/contributions/edited by M. Kunz, 336103/contributions/786798. Geneva, Switzerland: University of Geneva, 2015.

P. Helbig. "The m-z relation for Type Ia supernovae: safety in numbers or safely without worry?." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453, no. 4 (01 November 2015): 3975-3979. doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1796
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P. Helbig. "Cosmology and cosmogony." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 135, no. 1247 (01 August 2015): 218-220.
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P. Helbig. "The m-z relation for Type Ia supernovae, locally inhomogeneous cosmological models, and the nature of dark matter." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451, no. 2 (01 August 2015): 2097-2107. doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1074
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P. Helbig. "A classic problem concluded." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 134, no. 1240 (01 June 2014): 138-139.
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P. Helbig. "Reply to Mr. Osmaston concerning the nature of the redshift." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 134, no. 1236 (01 April 2014): 76-76.
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P. Helbig. "Is There a Flatness Problem in Classical Cosmology?." In Springer Proceedings in Physicsedited by J. Bičák and L. Tomáš, 355-361. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, 2014. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06761-2_50

P. Helbig. "Cosmic Confusion." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 133, no. 1236 (01 October 2013): 294-295.
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P. Helbig. "Why stop at 2/3?." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 132, no. 1229 (01 August 2012): 267-267.
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P. Helbig. "Which law is Hubble's law?." The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 132, no. 1228 (01 June 2012): 183-184.
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P. Helbig. "Is there a flatness problem in classical cosmology?." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 421, no. 1 (01 March 2012): 561-569. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.20334.x
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J. P. McKean, I. W. A. Browne, N. J. Jackson, C. D. Fassnacht, and P. Helbig. "The Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey parent population - I. Sample selection and number counts." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 377, no. 1 (01 May 2007): 430-440. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11618.x
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P. Helbig. "Constraints in the λ0-Ω0 plane from gravitational lensing." In New Cosmological Data and the Values of the Fundamental Parametersby A. Wilkinson, edited by A. Lasenby, 245. San Francisco, United States: ASP, 2005.

J. P. McKean, I. W. A. Browne, P. Helbig, N. J. F. Jackson, and P. N. Wilkinson. "The Redshift Distribution of Flat-Spectrum Radio Sources at Low Flux-Densities." In New Cosmological Data and the Values of the Fundamental Parametersedited by A. N. Lasenby and A. Wilkinson. San Francisco, United States: ASP, 2005.

E. Zackrisson, N. Bergvall, T. Marquart, and P. Helbig. "Can microlensing explain the long-term optical variability of quasars?." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 408, no. 1 (01 September 2003): 17-25. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20030895
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I. W. A. Browne, P. N. Wilkinson, N. J. F. Jackson, S. T. Myers, C. D. Fassnacht, L. V. E. Koopmans, D. R. Marlow et al. "The Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey - II. Gravitational lens candidate selection and follow-up." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 341, no. 1 (01 May 2003): 13-32. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06257.x
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K.-H. Chae, A. D. Biggs, R. D. Blandford, I. W. Browne, A. G. de Bruyn, C. D. Fassnacht, P. Helbig et al. "Constraints on Cosmological Parameters from the Analysis of the Cosmic Lens All Sky Survey Radio-Selected Gravitational Lens Statistics." Physical Review Letters, 89, no. 15 (01 October 2002): 151301. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.151301
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E. Zackrisson, N. Bergvall, and P. Helbig. "Constraining Dark Matter with the Long-Term Variability of Quasars." In Lighthouses of the Universe: The Most Luminous Celestial Objects and Their Use for Cosmologyby E. Churazov, edited by M. Gilfanov and R. Sunyeav, 550. Springer, 2002. doi:10.1007/10856495_87

P. Helbig. "The Lens-Redshift Test Revisited." In Cosmological Physics with Gravitational Lensingedited by J. Trân Thanh Vân, Y. Mellier, and M. Moniez, 279. Les Ulis, France: EDP Sciences, 2001.

P. Helbig. "The Current Status of CLASS." In Cosmological Physics with Gravitational Lensingedited by J. Trân Thanh Vân, Y. Mellier, and M. Moniez, 261. Les Ulis, France: EDP Sciences, 2001.

S. T. Myers, N. J. F. Jackson, I. W. A. Browne, A. G. de Bruyn, A. C. S. Readhead, P. N. Wilkinson, C. D. Fassnacht et al. "CLASS: Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey." In Gravitational Lensing: Recent Progress and Future Goalsby T. G. Brainerd and C. S. Kochanek. San Francisco, United States - California: ASP, 2001.
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A. D. Biggs, I. W. A. Browne, P. N. Wilkinson, T. W. B. Muxlow, P. Helbig, L. V. E. Koopmans, and C. S. Kochanek. "B0218+357: Time Delays and New MERLIN/VLA 5 GHz Maps of the Einstein Ring." In Gravitational Lensing: Recent Progress and Future Goalsby T. G. Brainerd and C. S. Kochanek, 137-138. ASP, 2001.

P. Helbig, J. F. Marcias-Perez, A. Wilkinson, R. Davies, and R. Quast. "λ0 and Ω0 from Lensing Statistics and Other Methods: Is There a Conflict?." In Gravitational Lensing: Recent Progress and Future Goalsedited by T. G. Brainerd and C. S. Kochanek, 145-146. San Francisco, United States: ASP, 2001.

P. M. Phillips, M. A. Norbury, L. V. E. Koopmans, I. W. A. Browne, N. J. Jackson, P. N. Wilkinson, A. D. Biggs et al. "A new quadruple gravitational lens system: CLASS B0128+437." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 319, no. 2 (01 December 2000): 7-L11. doi:10.1111/j.1365-8711.2000.04033.x
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P. Helbig and R. J. Nemiroff. "Current Status of the Astrophysics Source Code Library." In Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 1600. 2000.

L. V. E. Koopmans, A. G. de Bruyn, C. D. Fassnacht, D. R. Marlow, D. Rusin, R. D. Blandford, I. W. A. Browne et al. "CLASS B0827+525: `Dark lens' or binary radio-loud quasar?." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 361, no. 3 (01 September 2000): 815-822.
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J. F. Macias-Perez, P. Helbig, R. Quast, A. Wilkinson, and R. Davies. "Gravitational lensing statistics with extragalactic surveys. IV. Joint constraints on lambda0 and Omega0 from gravitational lensing statistics and CMB anisotropies." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 353, no. 2 (01 January 2000): 419-426.
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P. Helbig, R. D. Blandford, I. W. A. Browne, A. G. de Bruyn, C. D. Fassnacht, N. Jackson, L. V. E. Koopmans et al. "Measuring cosmological parameters with the JVAS and CLASS gravitational lens surveys." In Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmologyby P. P., edited by E. Auborg, M. T., and P. J, 13. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier, 2000.

P. Helbig. "Gravitational lensing statistics with extragalactic surveys. III. Joint constraints on lambda_ {0} and Omega_ {0} from lensing statistics and the m-z relation for type IA supernovae." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 350, no. 1 (01 October 1999): 1-8.
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P. Helbig, D. R. Marlow, R. Quast, P. N. Wilkinson, I. W. A. Browne, and L. V. E. Koopmans. "Gravitational lensing statistics with extragalactic surveys . II. Analysis of the Jodrell Bank-VLA Astrometric Survey." Astronomy and Astrophysics. Supplement Series, 136, no. 2 (01 April 1999): 297-305. doi:10.1051/aas:1999467
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A. D. Biggs, I. W. A. Browne, P. Helbig, L. V. E. Koopmans, P. N. Wilkinson, and R. A. Perley. "Time delay for the gravitational lens system B0218+357." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 304, no. 2 (01 April 1999): 349-358. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02309.x
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R. Quast and P. Helbig. "Gravitational lensing statistics with extragalactic surveys. I. A lower limit on the cosmological constant." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 344, no. 3 (01 April 1999): 721-734.
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A. Biggs, I. W. A. Browne, P. Helbig, N. J. Jackson, L. King, D. R. Marlow, A. McGuinness et al. "Cosmological Parameters from the CERES Project." In Cosmological Parameters and the Evolution of the Universeedited by K. Sato, 64. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer, 1999.

P. Helbig. "The Deltatheta-z_s relation for gravitational lenses as a cosmological test." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 298, no. 2 (01 August 1998): 395-398. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01692.x
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N. Jackson, P. Helbig, I. W. A. Browne, and L. Koopmans. "Light on dark lenses." New Astronomy Reviews, 42, no. 2 (01 August 1998): 97-100. doi:10.1016/S1387-6473(98)00028-1

P. Helbig. "The Delta theta-z$_{s}$ Relation as a Cosmological Test." In Large Scale Structure: Tracks and Traces : Proceedings of the 12th Potsdam Cosmology Workshop : Potsdam, Germany, 15-19 September 1997edited by V. Müller, S. Gottlöber, J. P. Mücket, and J. Wambsganß, 395-398. World Scientific, 1998.

D. R. Marlow, A. D. McGuinness, I. W. A. Browne, P. N. Wilkinson, and P. Helbig. "A Search for Large-Image-Separation Gravitational Lenses in the JVAS Radio Survey." In Large Scale Structure: Tracks and Traces : Proceedings of the 12th Potsdam Cosmology Workshop : Potsdam, Germany, 15-19 September 1997edited by V. Müller, S. Gottlöber, J. P. Mücket, and J. Wambsganß, 327-328. World Scientific, 1998.

N. J. F. Jackson, P. Helbig, I. W. A. Browne, C. D. Fassnacht, L. V. E. Koopmans, D. R. Marlow, and P. N. Wilkinson. "Lensing galaxies: light or dark?." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 334, no. 2 (01 June 1998): 33-L36.
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D. R. Marlow, P. N. Wilkinson, P. Helbig, I. W. A. Browne, N. Jackson, and I. Perez-Fournon. "Constraining the Value of the Cosmological Constant Using JVAS/CLASS Lensing Statistics." In Observational Cosmology with the New Radio Surveysedited by M. Bremer, N. Jackson, and I. Péréz-Fournon, 339-340. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Volume 226. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer, 1998. doi:10.1007/978-94-011-5238-9_59

Golden lenses.Edited by P. Helbig and N. Jackson. Lower Withington, United Kingdom: self-published, 1997.
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P. Helbig. "Measuring the Hubble constant with lens time delays in inhomogeneous universes." In Golden Lenses, Proceedings of a workshop held 23-25 June, 1997 at Jodrell Bank. Online at <A href="http://www.astro.multivax.de:8001/ceres/workshop1/proceedings.html">http://www.astro.multivax.de:8001/ceres/workshop1/proceedings.html</A>, id.27edited by P. Helbig and N. Jackson. 1997.

R. Kayser, P. Helbig, and T. Schramm. "A general and practical method for calculating cosmological distances." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 318, no. 3 (01 February 1997): 680-686.
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P. Helbig and R. Kayser. "Cosmological parameters and the redshift distribution of gravitational lenses." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 308, no. 2 (01 April 1996): 359-367.
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P. Helbig, R. Kayser, and T. Schramm. "ANGSIZ: A general and practical method for calculating cosmological distances." 1996.

P. Helbig. "Predicted Lens Redshifts and Magnitudes." In Astrophysical Applications of Gravitational Lensingedited by C. S. Kochanek and J. Hewitt, 21. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer, 1996.

P. Helbig. "Cosmological Parameters and Gravitational Lensing Statistics." In Seventeeth Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmologyedited by H. Böhringer, J. E. Trümper, and G. E. Morfill, 600. New York, United States: New York Academy of Sciences, 1995. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1995.tb17617.x

P. Helbig. "Bestimmung kosmologischer Parameter durch Rotverschiebungsstatistik von Gravitationslinsen." Unpublished master thesis, UH - Universität Hamburg, 1993.
Jury: Jury: S. Refsdal (Promotor). .

P. Helbig. "Determining Cosmological Parameters through Statistics of Redshifts of Lens Galaxies." In Gravitational Lenses in the Universe: Proceedings of the 31st Liège International Astrophysical Colloquiumby J. Surdej, D. Fraipont-Caro, E. Gosset, S. Refsdal, and M. Remy, 33-39. Liège, Belgium: ULg - Université de Liège, 1993.

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