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We have carefully studied how local measurements of the Hubble constant, $H_0$, can be influenced by a variety of different parameters related to survey geometry, depth, and size, as well as observer position in space. Our study is based on…

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Recent developments in the determination of H0 are reviewed in the context of the 3 following questions: 1) What is required to measure an accurate value of H0? Given the wide range of H0 values quoted in the current literature, is there…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wendy L. Freedman

We present a determination of the Hubble constant from measurements of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect (SZE) in an orientation-unbiased sample of 7 z < 0.1 galaxy clusters. With improved X-ray models and a more accurate 32-GHz calibration, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Brian S. Mason , Steven T. Myers , A. C. S. Readhead

In this work, we constrain the Hubble constant parameter, $H_0$, using a combination of the Pantheon sample and galaxy clusters (GC) measurements from minimal cosmological assumptions. Assuming the validity of the cosmic distance duality…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-27 L. R. Colaço , M. S. Ferreira , R. F. L. Holanda , J. E. Gonzalez , Rafael C. Nunes

There is a strong degeneracy between the luminosity distance ($D_L$) and the observer viewing angle ($\theta_{\rm obs}$; hereafter viewing angle) of the gravitational wave (GW) source with an electromagnetic counterpart, GW170817. Here, for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 S. Dhawan , M. Bulla , A. Goobar , A. Sagués Carracedo , C. N. Setzer

Joint analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background, Baryon Acoustic Oscillation, and supernova data has enabled precision estimation of cosmological parameters. New programs will push to 1% uncertainty in the dark energy equation of state and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-26 Lincoln Greenhill , Elizabeth Humphreys , Wayne Hu , Lucas Macri , David Murphy , Karen Masters , Yoshiaki Hagiwara , Hideyuki Kobayashi , Yasuhiro Murata

The historic detection of gravitational waves from the electromagnetically bright binary neutron star merger GW170817 enabled the first standard siren measurement of Hubble's constant ($H_0$). The accuracy and precision of this measurement…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Kelly Gourdji , Adam T. Deller , Chris Flynn , Taya Govreen-Segal , Cullan Howlett , Kunal P. Mooley , Ehud Nakar

Supernova Ia magnitude surveys measure the dimensionless luminosity distance $H_{0}D_{L}$. However, from the distances alone one cannot obtain quantities like $H(z)$ or the dark energy equation of state, unless further cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Luca Amendola , Miguel Quartin

In the coming decades, the space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors such as Taiji, TianQin, and LISA are expected to form a network capable of detecting millihertz GWs emitted by the mergers of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs). In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-02 Shang-Jie Jin , Ye-Zhu Zhang , Ji-Yu Song , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The dominant uncertainty in the current measurement of the Hubble constant ($H_0$) with strong gravitational lensing time delays is attributed to uncertainties in the mass profiles of the main deflector galaxies. Strongly lensed supernovae…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Simon Birrer , Suhail Dhawan , Anowar J. Shajib

Type Ia supernovae (SNe) are the best standard candles available today in spite of an appreciable intrinsic variation of their luminosities at maximum phase, and of probably non-uniform progenitors. For an unbiased use of type Ia SNe as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom Richtler , Georg Drenkhahn

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

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

The multi-messenger observation of GW170817 enabled the first historic measurement of the Hubble constant via a standard siren, so-called in analogy to standard candles that enabled the measurement of the luminosity distance versus redshift…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-29 Josiel Mendonça , Riccardo Sturani

We report the first results of a long term program aiming to provide accurate independent estimates of the Hubble constant (H0) using the L-sigma distance estimator for Giant extragalactic HII regions (GEHR) and HII galaxies. We have used…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ricardo Chavez , Elena Terlevich , Roberto Terlevich , Manolis Plionis , Fabio Bresolin , Spyros Basilakos , Jorge Melnick

We revisit the claimed tension, or lack thereof, of measured values of the Hubble-Lema\^{i}tre parameter $H_0$ from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data and low-redshift indicators. Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) rely on the scale of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Radosław Wojtak , Adriano Agnello

With the release of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog GWTC-4.0 by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, 218 candidate detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) have been reported. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Grégoire Pierra , Alexander Papadopoulos

Model-independent bounds on the Hubble constant $H_0$ are important to shed light on cosmological tensions. We work out a model-independent analysis based on the sum rule, which is applied to late- and early-time data catalogs to determine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Orlando Luongo , Marco Muccino

The $\Lambda$CDM model successfully explains the majority of cosmological observations. However, the $\Lambda$CDM model is challenged by Hubble tension, a remarkable difference of Hubble constant $H_0$ between measurements from local probe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-18 Q. Wu , G. Q. Zhang , F. Y. Wang

GW170817 is a binary neutron star merger that exhibited a gravitational wave (GW) and a gamma-ray burst, followed by an afterglow. In this work, we estimate the Hubble constant ($H_0$) using broad-band afterglow emission and relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-25 Giulia Gianfagna , Luigi Piro , Francesco Pannarale , Hendrik Van Eerten , Fulvio Ricci , Geoffrey Ryan