English

First detection of the Hubble variation correlation and its scale dependence

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-04-13 v3 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

The sample variance due to our local density fluctuations in measuring our local Hubble-constant (H0H_0) can be reduced to the percentage level by choosing the Hubble-flow type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) outside of the homogeneity scale. In this Letter, we have revealed a hidden trend in this one-percent H0H_0 variation both theoretically and observationally. We have derived for the first time our H0H_0 variation measured from any discrete sample of distant SNe Ia. We have also identified a residual linear correlation between our local H0H_0 fitted from different groups of SNe Ia and their ambient density contrasts of SN-host galaxies evaluated at a given scale. We have further traced the scale dependence of this residual linear trend, which becomes more and more positively correlated with the ambient density contrasts of SN-host galaxies estimated at larger and larger scales, on the contrary to but still marginally consistent with the theoretical expectation from the Λ\Lambda-cold-dark-matter model. This might indicate some unknown corrections to the peculiar velocity of the SN-host galaxy from the density contrasts at larger scales or the smoking gun for the new physics.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2209.14732,
  title  = {First detection of the Hubble variation correlation and its scale dependence},
  author = {Wang-Wei Yu and Li Li and Shao-Jiang Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.14732},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

v1, 5 pages + appendix, 4 figures, 1 table; v2, references added and a typo corrected; v3, major revision with improved data analysis from covariance matrix

R2 v1 2026-06-28T02:22:02.451Z