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We present a simultaneous analysis of 18 galaxy lenses with time delay measurements. For each lens we derive mass maps using pixelated simultaneous modeling with shared Hubble constant. We estimate the Hubble constant to be 66_{-4}^{+6}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-05 Danuta Paraficz , Jens Hjorth

I review the current state of determinations of the Hubble constant, which gives the length scale of the Universe by relating the expansion velocity of objects to their distance. There are two broad categories of measurements. The first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Neal Jackson

The recent observations of gravitational-wave and electromagnetic emission produced by the merger of the binary neutron-star system GW170817 have opened the possibility of using standard sirens to constrain the value of the Hubble constant.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Eleonora Di Valentino , Alessandro Melchiorri

There is an approximately 9% discrepancy, corresponding to 2.4sigma, between two independent constraints on the expansion rate of the universe: one indirectly arising from the cosmic microwave background and baryon acoustic oscillations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-17 Valerio Marra , Luca Amendola , Ignacy Sawicki , Wessel Valkenburg

We perform a measurement of the Hubble constant, $H_0$, using the latest baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements from galaxy surveys of 6dFGS, SDSS DR7 Main Galaxy Sample, BOSS DR12 sample, and eBOSS DR14 quasar sample, in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Yuting Wang , Lixin Xu , Gong-Bo Zhao

The $\Lambda$CDM model provides a good fit to most astronomical observations but harbors large areas of phenomenology and ignorance. With the improvements in the precision and number of observations, discrepancies between key cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Jian-Ping Hu , Fa-Yin Wang

The possibility of determining the value of the Hubble constant using observations of galaxy clusters in X-ray and microwave wavelengths through the Sunyaev Zel\'dovich (SZ) effect has long been known. Previous measurements have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Arpine Kozmanyan , Hervé Bourdin , Pasquale Mazzotta , Elena Rasia , Mauro Sereno

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

The simplest cosmological model ($\Lambda$CDM) is well-known to suffer from the Hubble tension, namely an almost $5 \sigma$ discrepancy between the (model-based) early-time determination of the Hubble constant $H_0$ and its late-time (and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 Darshan Kumar , Debajyoti Choudhury , Debottam Nandi

We use updated Type Ia Pantheon+ supernova, baryon acoustic oscillation, and Hubble parameter (now also accounting for correlations) data, as well as new reverberation-measured C IV quasar data, and quasar angular size, H II starburst…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-19 Shulei Cao , Bharat Ratra

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

Considerable progress has been made in determining the Hubble constant over the past two decades. We discuss the cosmological context and importance of an accurate measurement of the Hubble constant, and focus on six high-precision…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Wendy L. Freedman , Barry F. Madore

The determination of the Hubble constant $H_0$ from the Cosmic Microwave Background by the Planck Collaboration [Aghanim et al. 2018] is in tension at $4.2\sigma$ with respect to the local determination of $H_0$ by the SH0ES collaboration…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-10 David Camarena , Valerio Marra

We perform a cosmographic analysis using several cosmological observables such as the luminosity distance moduli, the volume distance, the angular diameter distance and the Hubble parameter. These quantities are determined using different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Jun-Qing Xia , Vincenzo Vitagliano , Stefano Liberati , Matteo Viel

The Hubble constant is of paramount importance in astrophysics and cosmology. A large number of methods have been developed with different electromagnetic probes to estimate its value. The most recent results show a tension between values…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-19 Rosa Poggiani

Although cosmologists have been trying to determine the value of the Hubble constant for nearly 65 years, they have only succeeded in limiting the range of possibilities: most of the current observational determinations place the Hubble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 J. G. Bartlett , A. Blanchard , J. Silk , M. S. Turner

In this paper, we propose a self-consistent test for a Hubble constant estimate using galaxy cluster and type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observations. The approach consists, in a first step, of obtaining the observational value of the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Kamal Bora , R. F. L. Holanda

The Hubble constant $H_0$, the current expansion rate of the universe, is one of the most important parameters in cosmology. The cosmic expansion regulates the mutually approaching motion of a pair of celestial objects due to their gravity.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-30 Wangzheng Zhang , Ming-chung Chu , Shihong Liao , Shek Yeung , Hui-Jie Hu

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) monopole temperature evolves with the inverse of the cosmological scale factor, independent of many cosmological assumptions. With sufficient sensitivity, real-time cosmological observations could thus…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-14 Maximilian H. Abitbol , J. Colin Hill , Jens Chluba

Measurements of the Hubble constant, $H_0$, from the cosmic distance ladder are currently in tension with the value inferred from Planck observations of the CMB and other high redshift datasets if a flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-18 Eric J. Baxter , Blake D. Sherwin