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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 status of the determination of the Hubble constant is reviewed, setting out the evidence for the long distance scale with H_0=55+/-5. In parallel, various precepts said to favor the short distance scale with H_0>70 are discussed. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Allan Sandage , G. A. Tammann

Several cosmological observations (e.g., Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Supernovae Type Ia, and local distance ladder measurements such as Cepheids) have been used to measure the global expansion rate of the Universe, i.e., the Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-05 S. Ilani Loubser , Adebusola B. Alabi , Matt Hilton , Yin-Zhe Ma , Xin Tang , Narges Hatamkhani , Catherine Cress , Rosalind E. Skelton , S. Andile Nkosi

One of the most challenging problems in cosmology is the Hubble tension, a discrepancy in the predicted expansion rate of the Universe. We leverage the sensitivity of the Dispersion Measure (DM) from Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) with the Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-13 Eduard Fernando Piratova-Moreno , Luz Ángela García , Carlos A. Benavides-Gallego , Carolina Cabrera

The Hubble constant $H_0$ is the value of the cosmic expansion rate at one time (the present), and cannot be adjusted successfully without taking into account the entire expansion history and cosmology. We outline some conditions, that if…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Eric V. Linder

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

Lack of knowledge about the background expansion history of the Universe from independent observations makes it problematic to obtain a precise and accurate estimation of the Hubble constant $H_0$ from gravitational wave standard sirens,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Arman Shafieloo , Ryan E. Keeley , Eric V. Linder

The Hubble constant ${H}_0$ is a crucial parameter in cosmology. However, different cosmic observations have resulted in varying posterior results for ${H}_0$, leading to what is known as the ${H}_0$ tension. In order to address this issue,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-18 Jiaze Gao , Zhihuan Zhou , Minghui Du , Rui Zou , Jianping Hu , Lixin Xu

Whereas many measurements in cosmology depend on the use of integrated distances or time, galaxies evolving passively on a time scale much longer than their age difference allow us to determine the expansion rate H(z) solely as a function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-21 Jun-Jie Wei , Fulvio Melia , Xue-Feng Wu

Recent determination of the Hubble constant via Cepheid-calibrated supernovae by \citet{riess_2.4_2016} (R16) find $\sim 3\sigma$ tension with inferences based on cosmic microwave background temperature and polarization measurements from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Brent Follin , Lloyd Knox

Even though the Hubble constant cannot be significantly determined by the low-redshift Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) data alone, it can be tightly constrained once the high-redshift BAO data are combined. Combining BAO data from 6dFGS,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-14 Cheng Cheng , Qing-Guo Huang

Measurements of the Hubble constant, and more generally measurements of the expansion rate and distances over the interval $0 < z < 1$, appear to be inconsistent with the predictions of the standard cosmological model ($\Lambda$CDM) given…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Lloyd Knox , Marius Millea

We present a cosmological model-independent determination of the Hubble constant, $H_0$, by combining time-delay measurements from seven TDCOSMO systems, Einstein radius measurements, and Type Ia Supernovae data sourced from the Pantheon+…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 L. R. Colaço , R. F. L. Holanda , Z. C. Santana , R. Silva

It is well-known that the peak brightness of the Type Ia supernovae calibrated with Cepheid distances can be used to determine the Hubble constant. The Cepheid distances to host galaxies of the calibrating supernovae are usually obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Ngeow , S. Kanbur

Recent observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of Cepheids in the Virgo cluster imply a Hubble Constant $H_0=80\pm17$\ km/sec/Mpc. We attempt to clarify some issues of interpretation of these results for determining the global…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. H. Jaffe

In the era of precision cosmology, it is essential to empirically determine the Hubble constant with an accuracy of one per cent or better. At present, the uncertainty on this constant is dominated by the uncertainty in the calibration of…

In a series of articles, we have shown that the newly discovered plasma-redshift cosmology gives a simpler, more accurate and consistent explanation of many cosmological phenomena than the big-bang cosmology. The SNe Ia observations are in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ari Brynjolfsson

We present a determination of the Hubble constant ($H_0$) using the latest observational data from multiple cosmological probes, providing an independent geometric calibration of the SN Ia distance scale. By combining baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Jieci Wang

An intriguing discrepancy emerging in the concordance model of cosmology is the tension between the locally measured value of the Hubble rate, and the 'global' value inferred from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This could be due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Vinicius C. Busti , Chris Clarkson , Marina Seikel

For precision cosmological studies it is important to know the local properties of the reference point from which we observe the Universe. Particularly for the determination of the Hubble constant with low-redshift distance indicators, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-25 Hans Boehringer , Gayoung Chon , Chris A. Collins