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Accurately measuring the Hubble parameter is vital for understanding the expansion history and properties of the universe. In this paper, we propose a new method that supplements the covariance between redshift pairs to improve the…

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Determining the spatial curvature ($\Omega_k$) independent of cosmic microwave background observations plays a key role in revealing the physics of the early universe. The Hubble tension is one of the most serious issues in modern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-01 Sy-Yun Pu , Teppei Okumura , Chian-Chou Chen , Takahiro Nishimichi , Kazuyuki Akitsu

The $\Lambda$CDM model successfully explains a wide range of cosmological observations; however, persistent discrepancies most notably the $H_0$ tension between early and late time measurements challenge its completeness. No proposed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Upala Mukhopadhyay , Purba Mukherjee , Alexandre Tkatchenko

We propose an analytical parametrization of the comoving distance and Hubble parameter to study the cosmic expansion history beyond the vanilla $\Lambda$CDM model. The parametrization is generalized enough to include the contribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Bikash R. Dinda

Reconstructing the evolution history of the dark energy equation of state parameter $w(z)$ directly from observational data is highly valuable in cosmology, since it contains substantial clues in understanding the nature of the accelerated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Zhi-E Liu , Hao-Ran Yu , Tong-Jie Zhang , Yan-Ke Tang

We propose a specialized parameterization for the Hubble parameter, inspired by $\Lambda$CDM cosmology, to investigate the cosmic expansion history of the Universe. This parameterization is employed to analyze the Universe's late-time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 M. Koussour , N. Myrzakulov

The rate at which the universe is expanding today is a fundamental parameter in cosmology which governs our understanding of structure formation and dark energy. However, current measurements of the Hubble constant, $H_0$, show a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-02 Carlos A. P. Bengaly , Chris Clarkson , Roy Maartens

Since the expansion of the universe was first established by Edwin Hubble and Georges Lemaitre about a century ago, the Hubble constant H0 which measures its rate has been of great interest to astronomers. Besides being interesting in its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Paul Shah , Pablo Lemos , Ofer Lahav

We investigate the observational viability of a class of cosmological models in which the vacuum energy density decays linearly with the Hubble parameter, resulting in a production of cold dark matter particles at late times. Similarly to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-01 C. Pigozzo , M. A. Dantas , S. Carneiro , J. S. Alcaniz

The Hubble parameter, $H(z)$, plays a crucial role in understanding the expansion history of the universe and constraining the Hubble constant, $\mathrm{H}_0$. The Cosmic Chronometers (CC) method provides an independent approach to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Jing Niu , Peng He , Tong-Jie Zhang

We generalise the procedure for joint estimation of cosmological parameters to allow freedom in the relative weights of various probes. This is done by including in the joint Likelihood function a set of 'Hyper-Parameters', which are dealt…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ofer Lahav

The tension between measurements of the Hubble constant $H_0$ locally and the value inferred from Planck satellite have provided a strong motivation to explore theoretical frameworks beyond the standard cosmological model ($\Lambda$CDM). To…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 R. Mohebi , Kh. Saaidi T. Golanbari , K. Karami

Presently, we are facing a 3$\sigma$ tension in the most basic cosmological parameter -- the Hubble constant $H_0$. This tension arises when fitting the Lambda-cold-dark-matter model ($\Lambda$CDM) to the high-precision…

General Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Steffen Hahn , Ralf Hofmann

The open problems related to cosmological tensions in current times have opened new paths to study new probes to constrain cosmological parameters in standard and extended cosmologies, in particular, to determine at a local level the value…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Rodrigo Sandoval-Orozco , Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Rebecca Briffa , Jackson Levi Said

In this study, we use late-time probes, such as well-localized fast radio bursts (FRBs), baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), supernovae (SNe), and cosmic chronometers (CC) to constrain cosmological parameters through a model-independent…

We use the large-scale structure galaxy data (LSS) from the BOSS and eBOSS surveys, in combination with abundances information from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) to measure two values of the Hubble expansion rate, $H_0=100h\,[{\rm km}\,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-13 Samuel Brieden , Héctor Gil-Marín , Licia Verde

The CMB is already one of the pillars of the Big Bang model. However it may also become our most powerful tool to distinguish contending models and to determine their cosmological parameters. To realize this goal, more than 20 observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles H. Lineweaver

A new parametrization of the Hubble parameter is proposed to explore the issue of the cosmological landscape. The constraints on model parameters are derived through the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method by employing a comprehensive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-06 L. Sudharani , Kazuharu Bamba , N. S. Kavya , V. Venkatesha

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) allow us to determine the expansion history of the Universe, thereby shedding light on the nature of dark energy. Recent observations of BAO's in the SDSS DR9 and DR11 have provided us with statistically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-25 Varun Sahni , Arman Shafieloo , Alexei A. Starobinsky

Taking advantage of Gaussian process (GP), we obtain an improved estimate of the Hubble constant, $H_0=70.41\pm1.58$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$, using Hubble parameter [$H(z)$] from cosmic chronometers (CCH) and expansion rate function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-26 Yingjie Yang , Xuchen Lu , Lei Qian , Shulei Cao