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Solving the Hubble tension \`a la Ellis & Stoeger 1987

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-11-14 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The discrepancy between the value of the Hubble constant H0H_0 in the late, local universe and the one obtained from the Planck collaboration representing an all-sky value for the early universe reached the 5-σ\sigma level. Approaches to alleviate the tension contain a wide range of ansatzes: increasing uncertainties in data acquisition, reducing biases in the astrophysical models that underly the probes, or taking into account observer-dependent variances in the parameters of the cosmological background model. Yet, early and late universe probes are often treated as independent, they live on different length scales, and require different perturbations to be subtracted. Hence, fitting a flat Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker cosmology to different probes at different cosmic epochs can yield different sets of cosmological parameter values. Tensions arise if these background fits and perturbing biases are not consistently calibrated or synchronised with respect to each other. This consistent model-fitting calibration is lacking between the two H0H_0 values mentioned above, thus causing a tension. As shown here, this interpretation resolves the H0H_0tension, if 15% of the matter-density parameter obtained from the fit to the cosmic microwave background, Ωm=0.315\Omega_m = 0.315, are assigned to decoupled perturbations yielding Ωm=0.267\Omega_m = 0.267 for the fit at redshifts of the supernova observations. Existing theoretical analyses and data evaluations which support this solution are given.

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@article{arxiv.2203.11219,
  title  = {Solving the Hubble tension \`a la Ellis & Stoeger 1987},
  author = {Jenny Wagner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.11219},
  year   = {2023}
}

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14 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of Science of the Corfu Summer Institute 2022 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity"