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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…

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Combining cosmological probes has consolidated the standard cosmological model with percent precision, but some tensions have recently emerged when certain parameters are estimated from the local or primordial Universe. The origin of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-16 Fabrizio Cogato , Michele Moresco , Lorenzo Amati , Andrea Cimatti

Over the past decades, cosmology has become largely based on experimental data, the most important sources of which are studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). CMB is present in the Universe since the very first moments of its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 A. V. Shepelev

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

A novel evolutionary method is introduced that can be used for constraining the parameters and theoretical models of Cosmology. The newly proposed algorithm, which is inherently parallel by design, is able to obtain the full potential of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Supin P Surendran , Aiswarya A , Rinsy Thomas , Minu Joy

We measure the expansion rate of the recent Universe and the calibration scale of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) from low-redshift data. BAO relies on the calibration scale, i.e., the sound horizon at the end of drag epoch $r_d$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Xue Zhang , Qing-Guo Huang

We propose a Bayesian meta-analysis to infer the current expansion rate of the Universe, called the Hubble constant ($H_0$), via time delay cosmography. Inputs of the meta-analysis are estimates of two properties for each pair of…

Applications · Statistics 2024-11-14 Hyungsuk Tak , Xuheng Ding

We constrain two non-flat time-evolving dark energy cosmological models by using Hubble parameter data, Type Ia supernova apparent magnitude measurements, and baryonic acoustic oscillation peak length scale observations. The inclusion of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Omer Farooq , Data Mania , Bharat Ratra

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

We present a framework for cosmological model selection using Neural Networks (NNs) trained directly on simulated Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarisation maps. By operating at the map level rather than on compressed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Indira Ocampo , Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera

We constrain cosmological parameters using only Hubble parameter data and quantify the impact of future Hubble parameter measurements on parameter estimation for the most typical dark energy models. We first constrain cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-27 Jia-Jia Geng , Rui-Yun Guo , Anzhong Wang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

This study presents an analysis of cosmological parameters, focusing on resolving the Hubble tension and constraining neutrino masses within a coupled quintom model. By utilizing datasets from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Pantheon…

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A new parametrization of the Hubble parameter is proposed to explore the issue of the cosmological landscape. The constraints on model parameters are derived through the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method by employing a comprehensive…

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We analyze the public DESI full-shape clustering data using simulation-based priors (SBPs). Our priors are obtained by fitting normalizing flows to the distribution of EFT parameters measured from field-level simulations, themselves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Anton Chudaykin , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox

In this study, we construct a theoretical framework based on the generalized Hubble parameter form which may arise within the particle creation, viscous and $f(R)$ gravity theory. The Hubble parameter is scrutinized for its compatibility…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-11 G. P. Singh , Romanshu Garg , Ashutosh Singh

The cosmographic approach is gaining considerable interest as a model-independent technique able to describe the late expansion of the universe. Indeed, given only the observational assumption of the cosmological principle, it allows to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 Micol Benetti , Salvatore Capozziello

We compare and combine likelihood functions of the cosmological parameters Omega_m, h and sigma_8, from peculiar velocities, CMB and type Ia supernovae. These three data sets directly probe the mass in the Universe, without the need to…

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The Megamaser Cosmology Project inferred a value for the Hubble constant given by $H_0=73.9 \pm 3.0 $ km/sec/Mpc. This value was obtained using Bayesian inference by marginalizing over six nuisance parameters, corresponding to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-23 Shubham Barua , Vyaas Ramakrishnan , Shantanu Desai

We propose an efficient Bayesian MCMC algorithm for estimating cosmological parameters from CMB data without use of likelihood approximations. It builds on a previously developed Gibbs sampling framework that allows for exploration of the…

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