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The tensions between the values of Hubble constant obtained from the early and the late Universe data pose a significant challenge to modern cosmology. Possible modifications of the flat homogeneous isotropic cosmological {\Lambda}CDM model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-14 S. L. Parnovsky

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

In universes with significant curvature or cosmological constant, cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies are created very recently via the Rees-Sciama or integrated Sachs-Wolfe effects. This causes the CMB anisotropies to become…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. P. Boughn , R. G. Crittenden , N. G. Turok

The current cosmological probes have provided a fantastic confirmation of the standard $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter cosmological model, that has been constrained with unprecedented accuracy. However, with the increase of the experimental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-27 Eleonora Di Valentino , Luis A. Anchordoqui , Ozgur Akarsu , Yacine Ali-Haimoud , Luca Amendola , Nikki Arendse , Marika Asgari , Mario Ballardini , Spyros Basilakos , Elia Battistelli , Micol Benetti , Simon Birrer , François R. Bouchet , Marco Bruni , Erminia Calabrese , David Camarena , Salvatore Capozziello , Angela Chen , Jens Chluba , Anton Chudaykin , Eoin Ó Colgáin , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Paolo de Bernardis , Javier de Cruz Pérez , Jacques Delabrouille , Jo Dunkley , Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Agnès Ferté , Fabio Finelli , Wendy Freedman , Noemi Frusciante , Elena Giusarma , Adrià Gómez-Valent , Julien Guy , Will Handley , Ian Harrison , Luke Hart , Alan Heavens , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Daniel Holz , Dragan Huterer , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Shahab Joudaki , Marc Kamionkowski , Tanvi Karwal , Lloyd Knox , Suresh Kumar , Luca Lamagna , Julien Lesgourgues , Matteo Lucca , Valerio Marra , Silvia Masi , Sabino Matarrese , Arindam Mazumdar , Alessandro Melchiorri , Olga Mena , Laura Mersini-Houghton , Vivian Miranda , Cristian Moreno-Pulido , David F. Mota , Jessica Muir , Ankan Mukherjee , Florian Niedermann , Alessio Notari , Rafael C. Nunes , Francesco Pace , Andronikos Paliathanasis , Antonella Palmese , Supriya Pan , Daniela Paoletti , Valeria Pettorino , Francesco Piacentini , Vivian Poulin , Marco Raveri , Adam G. Riess , Vincenzo Salzano , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Anjan A. Sen , Arman Shafieloo , Anowar J. Shajib , Joseph Silk , Alessandra Silvestri , Martin S. Sloth , Tristan L. Smith , Joan Solà , Carsten van de Bruck , Licia Verde , Luca Visinelli , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Deng Wang , Jian-Min Wang , Anil K. Yadav , Weiqiang Yang

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

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

We study the effects on cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies of spatial fluctuations of the fine-structure parameter between causally disconnected regions of the Universe at the time of recombination.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Kris Sigurdson , Andriy Kurylov , Marc Kamionkowski

One of the topical problems of contemporary physics is a possible variability of the fundamental constants. Here we consider possible variability of two dimensionless constants which are most important for calculation of atomic and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 D. A. Varshalovich , A. Y. Potekhin , A. V. Ivanchik

We report unbiased AI measurements of the fine structure constant $\alpha$ in two proximate absorption regions in the spectrum of the quasar HE0515$-$4414. The data are high resolution, high signal to noise, and laser frequency comb…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-18 John K. Webb , Chung-Chi Lee , Dinko Milakovic , Victor V. Flambaum , Vladimir A. Dzuba , Joao Magueijo

The cosmic microwave background anisotropy is sensitive to the slope and amplitude of primordial energy density and gravitational wave fluctuations, the baryon density, the Hubble constant, the cosmological constant, the ionization history,…

We apply a tension metric $Q_\textrm{UDM}$, the update difference in mean parameters, to understand the source of the difference in the measured Hubble constant $H_0$ inferred with cosmic microwave background lensing measurements from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-02 W. L. Kimmy Wu , Pavel Motloch , Wayne Hu , Marco Raveri

The recent local measurements of the Hubble constant $H_0$, indicate a significant discrepancy of over 5$\sigma$ compared to the value inferred from \textit{Planck} observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Guanlin Liu , Yu Wang , Wen Zhao

The Hubble-Lemaitre tension is currently one of the most important questions in cosmology. Most of the focus so far has been on reconciling the Hubble constant value inferred from detailed cosmic microwave background measurement with that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Kylar L. Greene , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine

We derive constraints on elastic scattering between baryons and dark matter using the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from the Planck satellite and the Lyman-alpha forest data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Elastic scattering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Cora Dvorkin , Kfir Blum , Marc Kamionkowski

The detection of a spatial variation of the fine-structure constant, alpha, based on study of quasar absorption systems has recently been reported. The physics that causes this alpha-variation should have other observable manifestations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-16 J. C. Berengut , V. V. Flambaum , J. A. King , S. J. Curran , J. K. Webb

The discrepancy between the value of the Hubble constant $H_0$ in the late, local universe and the one obtained from the Planck collaboration representing an all-sky value for the early universe reached the 5-$\sigma$ level. Approaches to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Jenny Wagner

Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) correlations, i.e. correlations in far-field intensity fluctuations, yield fundamental information on the quantum statistics of light sources, as highlighted after the discovery of photon bunching. Drawing on…

Forthcoming surveys will extend the understanding of cosmological large scale structures up to unprecedented redshift. According to this perspective, we present a fully relativistic framework to evaluate the impact of stochastic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Giuseppe Fanizza , Bartolomeo Fiorini , Giovanni Marozzi

The effect of fractal space time of the quantum particles on the variation of the fine structure constant $\alpha$ has been studied. The variation of fine structure constant has been investigated around De Broglie length $\lambda$ and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 A. Bhattacharya , A. Chandra , B. Chakrabarti