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The concordance (LambdaCDM) model reproduces the main current cosmological observations assuming the validity of general relativity at all scales and epochs, the presence of cold dark matter, and of a cosmological constant, equivalent to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-08 Guido Risaliti , Elisabeta Lusso

Classical Cepheids form one of the foundations of modern cosmology and the extragalactic distance scale, however, cosmic microwave background observations measure cosmological parameters and indirectly the Hubble Constant, H0, to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Hilding R. Neilson , Marek Biesiada , Nancy Remage Evans , Marcella Marconi , Chow-Choong Ngeow , Daniel R. Reese

The $\Lambda$CDM model provides a good fit to a large span of cosmological data but harbors areas of phenomenology. With the improvement of the number and the accuracy of observations, discrepancies among key cosmological parameters of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Eleonora Di Valentino , Olga Mena , Supriya Pan , Luca Visinelli , Weiqiang Yang , Alessandro Melchiorri , David F. Mota , Adam G. Riess , Joseph Silk

The gravitational lens system PS J0147+4630 (Andromeda's Parachute) consists of four quasar images ABCD and a lensing galaxy. We obtained $r$-band light curves of ABCD in the 2017$-$2022 period from monitoring with two 2-m class telescopes.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-11 Vyacheslav N. Shalyapin , Luis J. Goicoechea , Karianne Dyrland , Håkon Dahle

A review of the Hubble Space Telescope H0 Key Project is given, as presented at the IAU Symposium 183 on "Cosmological Parameters" held in Kyoto, Japan in August, 1997. An outline of the goals and progress toward this effort is given.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wendy L. Freedman , Jeremy R. Mould , Robert C. Kennicutt , Barry F. Madore

A major issue in contemporary cosmology is the persistent discrepancy, known as the Hubble tension, between the Hubble constant ($H_0$) estimates from local measurements and those inferred from early-Universe observations under the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Surajit Kalita , Akhil Uniyal , Tomasz Bulik , Yosuke Mizuno

As a fundamental parameter for modern cosmology, the Hubble constant $H_0$ is experiencing a serious crisis. In this paper, we explore an independent approach to measure $H_0$ based on the time-delay cosmography with strong gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-11 Yuting Liu , Masamune Oguri , Shuo Cao

We present deep optical observations of the gravitational lens system CLASS B0218+357, from which we derive an estimate of the Hubble constant. Extensive radio observations have reduced the degeneracies between Hubble's constant and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. York , N. Jackson , I. W. A. Browne , O. Wucknitz , J. E. Skelton

Over the past decade, the disparity between the value of the cosmic expansion rate directly determined from measurements of distance and redshift or instead from the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model calibrated by measurements from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-10 Marc Kamionkowski , Adam G. Riess

In the era of precision cosmology it is essential to determine the Hubble Constant with an accuracy of 3% or better. Currently, its uncertainty is dominated by the uncertainty in the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) which as the…

This paper discusses the methodology necessary to measure the Hubble constant Ho to a high degree of accuracy based upon Doppler tracking of spacecraft in the solar system. Using this methodology with available published data we determine a…

Space Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 Allen Joel Anderson

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 Supernova Cosmology Project has discovered over twenty-eight supernovae (SNe) at 0.35 <z < 0.65 in an ongoing program that uses Type Ia SNe as high-redshift distance indicators. Here we present measurements of the ratio between the…

As the advent of precision cosmology, the Hubble constant ($H_0$) inferred from the Lambda Cold Dark Matter fit to the Cosmic Microwave Background data is increasingly in tension with the measurements from the local distance ladder. To…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Wei-Jian Lu , Yi-Ping Qin

We present a method to compute the probability distribution function of the (true) Hubble constant and the age of the universe, given the estimate of the Hubble constant in our nearby galaxy samples. Our method takes into account both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Nakamura , Y. Suto

Recent attempts at measuring the variation of $c$ using an assortment of standard candles and the redshift-dependent Hubble expansion rate inferred from the currently available catalog of cosmic chronometers have tended to show that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Fulvio Melia

The bias in the determination of the Hubble parameter and the Hubble constant in the modern Universe is discussed. It could appear due to statistical processing of data on galaxies redshifts and estimated distances based on some statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 S. L. Parnovsky

We measure the current expansion rate of the Universe, Hubble's constant $H_0$, by calibrating the absolute magnitudes of supernovae to distances measured by Baryon Acoustic Oscillations. This `inverse distance ladder' technique provides an…

Although the Hubble constant $H_0$ and spatial curvature $\Omega_{K}$ have been measured with very high precision, they still suffer from some tensions. In this paper, we propose an improved method to combine the observations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Jing-Zhao Qi , Jia-Wei Zhao , Shuo Cao , Marek Biesiada , Yuting Liu

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