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Within the $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model, the absolute value of Einstein's cosmological constant $\Lambda$, sometimes expressed as the gravitating mass-energy density $\rho_\Lambda$ of the physical vacuum, is a fundamental constant of…

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We demonstrate the potential of Deep Learning methods for measurements of cosmological parameters from density fields, focusing on the extraction of non-Gaussian information. We consider weak lensing mass maps as our dataset. We aim for our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Jorit Schmelzle , Aurelien Lucchi , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Raphael Sgier , Alexandre Réfrégier , Thomas Hofmann

We introduce a new method for measuring the Hubble parameter from low-redshift large-scale observations that is independent of the comoving sound horizon. The method uses the baryon-to-photon ratio determined by the primordial deuterium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Alex Krolewski , Will J. Percival , Alex Woodfinden

Cosmological parameters are constrained by a wide variety of observations. We examine the concordance diagram for modern measurements of the Hubble constant, the shape parameter from large scale structure, the cluster baryon fraction, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-22 Stacy McGaugh

The Hubble constant ($H_0$), which represents the expansion rate of the Universe, is one of the most important cosmological parameters. The recent measurements of $H_0$ using the distance ladder methods such as Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Rahul Kumar Thakur , Shashikant Gupta , Rahul Nigam , PK Thiruvikraman

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

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

The $\Lambda$CDM model faces several tensions with recent cosmological data and their increased accuracy. The mismatch between the values of the Hubble constant $H_0$ obtained from direct distance ladder measurements and from the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-03 Alain Blanchard , Jean-Yves Héloret , Stéphane Ilić , Brahim Lamine , Isaac Tutusaus

In this paper, we use a newly compiled sample of ultra-compact structure in radio quasars and strong gravitational lensing systems with quasars acting as background sources to constrain six spatially flat and non-flat cosmological models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Xiaolei Li , Hao Zheng , Yuting Liu , Wuzheng Guo , Chenfa Zheng

In this paper, we study the cosmological constraints from the measurements of Hubble parameters---$H(z)$ data. Here, we consider two kinds of $H(z)$ data: the direct $H_0$ probe from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of Cepheid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-31 Wei Zheng , Hong Li , Jun-Qing Xia , You-Ping Wan , Si-Yu Li , Mingzhe Li

The errors of cosmological data generated from complex processes, such as the observational Hubble parameter data (OHD) and the Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) data, cannot be accurately modeled by simple analytical probability distributions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-17 Yu-Chen Wang , Yuan-Bo Xie , Tong-Jie Zhang , Hui-Chao Huang , Tingting Zhang , Kun Liu

We use three different data sets, specifically $H(z)$ measurements from cosmic chronometers, the HII-galaxy Hubble diagram, and reconstructed quasar-core angular-size measurements, to perform a joint analysis of three flat cosmological…

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The observational data on the large scale structure (LSS) of the Universe are used to determine cosmological parameters within the class of adiabatic inflationary models. We show that a mixed dark matter model with cosmological constant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Novosyadlyj , R. Durrer , S. Apunevych

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

We present forecasts on cosmological parameters for a CMB-HD survey. For a $\Lambda$CDM + $N_{eff}$ + $\sum m_\nu$ model, we find $\sigma(n_s) = 0.0013$ and $\sigma(N_{eff}) = 0.014$ using CMB and CMB lensing multipoles in the range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Amanda MacInnis , Neelima Sehgal , Miriam Rothermel

In this article, we introduce an innovative parametric representation of the Hubble parameter, providing a model-independent means to explore the dynamics of an accelerating cosmos. The model's parameters are rigorously constrained through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-16 M. Koussour , N. Myrzakulov , M. K. M. Ali

We use 28 Hubble parameter, $H(z)$, measurements at intermediate redshifts $0.07 \leq z \leq 2.3$ to determine the present-day Hubble constant $H_0$ in four cosmological models. We measure $H_0 = 68.3^{ +2.7}_{ -2.6 }, 68.4^{ +2.9 }_{ -3.3…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-26 Yun Chen , Suresh Kumar , Bharat Ratra

The Hubble parameter, $H(z)$, plays a crucial role in understanding the expansion history of the universe and constraining the Hubble constant, $\mathrm{H}_0$. The Cosmic Chronometers (CC) method provides an independent approach to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Jing Niu , Peng He , Tong-Jie Zhang

We present the idea that replacing the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ in the $\Lambda$CDM model by a distribution of walls, with very low tension compared to what one would expect from new physics, could help explaining the tension in the…

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