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Constraints on $H_0$ from WMAP and baryon acoustic osillation measurements

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2018-12-06 v1

Abstract

We report the constraints of H0H_0 obtained from Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) combined with the latest baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements. We use the BAO measurements from the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS), the SDSS DR7 main galaxies sample (MGS), the BOSS DR12 galaxies and the eBOSS DR14 quasars. Adding the recent BAO measurements to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from WMAP, we constrain cosmological parameters Ωm=0.298±0.005\Omega_m=0.298\pm0.005, H0=68.360.52+0.53H_0=68.36^{+0.53}_{-0.52} km s1^{-1} Mpc1^{-1}, σ8=0.81700.0175+0.0159\sigma_8=0.8170^{+0.0159}_{-0.0175} in a spatially flat Λ\Lambda cold dark matter (Λ\LambdaCDM) model, and Ωm=0.302±0.008\Omega_m=0.302\pm0.008, H0=67.63±1.30H_0=67.63\pm1.30 km s1^{-1} Mpc1^{-1}, σ8=0.79880.0338+0.0345\sigma_8=0.7988^{+0.0345}_{-0.0338} in a spatially flat wwCDM model, respectively. The combined constraint on ww from CMB and BAO in a spatially flat wwCDM model is w=0.96±0.07w=-0.96\pm0.07. Our measured H0H_0 results prefer a value lower than 70 km s1^{-1} Mpc1^{-1}, consistent with the recent data on CMB constraints from Planck (2018), but in 3.13.5σ3.1\sim 3.5\sigma tension with local measurements of Riess et al. (2018) in Λ\LambdaCDM and wwCDM framework, respectively. Compared with the WMAP alone analysis, the WMPA+BAO analysis reduces the error bar by 75.4% in Λ\LambdaCDM model and 95.3% in wwCDM model.

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@article{arxiv.1812.01877,
  title  = {Constraints on $H_0$ from WMAP and baryon acoustic osillation measurements},
  author = {Xue Zhang and Qing-Guo Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.01877},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table