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The use of Gaussian Processes with a measurement of the cosmic expansion rate based solely on the observation of cosmic chronometers provides a completely cosmology-independent reconstruction of the Hubble constant H(z) suitable for testing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-21 Fulvio Melia , Manoj K. Yennapureddy

We consider a cosmology in which a spherically symmetric large scale inhomogeneous enhancement or a void are described by an inhomogeneous metric and Einstein's gravitational equations. For a flat matter dominated universe the inhomogeneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. W. Moffat

Looking at the well-known Hubble tension as a tension in the calibrators of the cosmic distance ladder, i.e. the absolute magnitude $M$ of standard candles such as supernovae of Type Ia (SNIa) and the standard ruler represented by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Arianna Favale , Adrià Gómez-Valent , Marina Migliaccio

We discuss the cosmological degeneracy between the Hubble parameter H(z), the age of the universe and cosmological parameters describing simple variations from the minimal LCDM model. We show that independent determinations of the Hubble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Daniel G. Figueroa , Licia Verde , Raul Jimenez

In this paper, we study a cosmological model in the background of FLRW space time by assuming an appropriate parametrization in the form of a differential equation in terms of energy density of scalar field $ \rho_{\phi} $, which is defined…

General Physics · Physics 2020-04-09 J. K. Singh , Ritika Nagpal

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) provides a direct way to measure the luminosity distance, which enables us to probe cosmology. In this paper, we continue to expand the application of GW standard sirens in cosmology, and propose…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Jun-Jie Wei

We use cosmography to present constraints on the kinematics of the Universe, without postulating any underlying theoretical model. To this end, we use a Monte Carlo Markov Chain analysis to perform comparisons to the supernova Ia Union 2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Alejandro Aviles , Christine Gruber , Orlando Luongo , Hernando Quevedo

The dynamics of perfect fluid as a source in the context of modified gravity, specifically $f(Q,T)$ gravity, are examined within the Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmological model. This gravity is a generic function of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-02 S. H. Shekh , Anirudh Pradhan , S. P. Gaikwad , K. R. Mule

We use cosmography to present constraints on the kinematics of the Universe without postulating any underlying theoretical model a priori. To this end, we use a Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis to perform comparisons to the supernova Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-18 Alejandro Aviles , Christine Gruber , Orlando Luongo , Hernando Quevedo

We constrain cosmological parameters using only Hubble parameter data and quantify the impact of future Hubble parameter measurements on parameter estimation for the most typical dark energy models. We first constrain cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-27 Jia-Jia Geng , Rui-Yun Guo , Anzhong Wang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The Hubble constant ($H_0$) is one of the most important parameters in the standard $\rm \Lambda CDM$ model. The measurements given by the main two methods show a gap larger than $4\sigma$, which is known as Hubble tension. Fast radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 D. H. Gao , Q. Wu , J. P. Hu , S. X. Yi , X. Zhou , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

The cosmic curvature, a fundamental parameter for cosmology could hold deep clues to inflation and cosmic origins. We propose an improved model-independent method to constrain the cosmic curvature by combining the constructed Hubble diagram…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Jia Zhang , Marek Biesiada , Yuting Liu , Yujie Lian

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have emerged as a powerful tool for cosmological studies, particularly through the dispersion measure-redshift ($\mathrm{DM}-z$) relation. This work proposes a novel calibration method for FRBs using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Ran Gao , He Gao , Zhengxiang Li , Yuan-Pei Yang

The clustering ratio $\eta$, a large-scale structure observable originally designed to constrain the shape of the power spectrum of matter density fluctuations, is shown to provide a sensitive probe of the nature of gravity in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Julien Bel , Philippe Brax , Christian Marinoni , Patrick Valageas

We determine the Hubble constant $H_0$ precisely ($2.3\%$ uncertainty) in a manner independent of cosmological model through Gaussian process regression, using strong lensing and supernova data. Strong gravitational lensing of a variable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-08 Kai Liao , Arman Shafieloo , Ryan E. Keeley , Eric V. Linder

Context. Explaining the accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the fundamental challenges in physics today. Cosmography provides information about the evolution of the universe derived from measured distances, assuming only that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Marek Demianski , Ester Piedipalumbo , Disha Sawant , Lorenzo Amati

There are two redshifts in cosmology: $z_{obs}$, the observed redshift computed via spectral lines, and the model redshift, $z$, defined by the effective FLRW scale factor. In general these do not coincide. We place observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-06 Bruce A. Bassett , Yabebal Fantaye , Renée Hložek , Cristiano Sabiu , Mat Smith

The tension between early and late Universe probes of the Hubble constant has motivated various new FLRW cosmologies. Here, we reanalyse the Hubble tension with a recent age of the Universe constraint. This allows us to restrict attention…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Chethan Krishnan , Roya Mohayaee , Eoin Ó Colgáin , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , Lu Yin

In this paper, using the latest Pantheon+ sample of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements, and observational Hubble data (OHD), we carry out a joint constraint on the Hubble constant $H_0$, the spatial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Kaituo Zhang , Tianyao Zhou , Bing Xu , Qihong Huang , Yangsheng Yuan

We investigate the viable exponential $f(R)$ gravity in the metric formalism with $f(R)=-\beta R_s (1-e^{-R/R_s})$. The latest sample of the Hubble parameter measurements with 23 data points is used to place bounds on this $f(R)$ model. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-05 Yun Chen , Chao-Qiang Geng , Chung-Chi Lee , Ling-Wei Luo , Zong-Hong Zhu