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The $\Lambda$CDM model has long served as the cornerstone of modern cosmology, offering an elegant and successful framework for interpreting a wide range of cosmological observations. However, the rise of high-precision datasets has…

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The Hubble constant $H_0$ is one of the important cosmological parameters measuring the expansion rate of our universe at present moment. Over the last couple of years, $H_0$ has created an enormous amount of debates interests in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-29 Supriya Pan , Weiqiang Yang

The current Cepheid-calibrated distance ladder measurement of $H_0$ is reported to be in tension with the values inferred from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), assuming standard cosmology. However, some tip of the red giant branch…

Inspired by the recent conjecture originated from graduated dark energy that the Universe has recently transitioned from anti-de Sitter vacua to de Sitter vacua, we extend the $\Lambda$CDM model by a cosmological constant ($\Lambda_{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-07 Ozgur Akarsu , Suresh Kumar , Emre Ozulker , J. Alberto Vazquez

An analysis of a historical compilation of Hubble-Lema\^itre constant values ($H_0$: 163 data points measured between 1976 and 2019) assuming the standard cosmological model gives a $\chi^2$ value of the dispersion with respect to the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

We investigate constraints on some key cosmological parameters by confronting metastable dark energy models with different combinations of the most recent cosmological observations. Along with the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-14 Xiaolei Li , Arman Shafieloo , Varun Sahni , Alexei A. Starobinsky

Cosmological tensions in current times have opened a wide door to study new probes to constrain cosmological parameters, specifically, to determine the value of the Hubble constant $H_0$ through independent techniques. The two standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Rubén Torres Castillejos

The similarity of the absolute luminosity profiles of Type Ia supernovae (SNIe), as one kind of distance indicator, has led their use in extragalactic astronomy as secondary standard candles. In general, the empirical relationship of SNIa…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-18 Wen Zhao , Larissa Santos

The determination of the Hubble constant has been a central goal in observational astrophysics for nearly 100 years. Extraordinary progress has occurred in recent years on two fronts: the cosmic distance ladder measurements at low redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-14 C. L. Bennett , D. Larson , J. L. Weiland , G. Hinshaw

Using a mid-infrared calibration of the Cepheid distance scale based on recent observations at 3.6 um with the Spitzer Space Telescope, we have obtained a new, high-accuracy calibration of the Hubble constant. We have established the mid-IR…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Wendy L. Freedman , Barry F. Madore , Victoria Scowcroft , Chris Burns , Andy Monson , S. Eric Persson , Mark Seibert , Jane Rigby

Presently a ${>}3\sigma$ tension exists between values of the Hubble constant $H_0$ derived from analysis of fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background by Planck, and local measurements of the expansion using calibrators of type Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-30 Bonnie R. Zhang , Michael J. Childress , Tamara M. Davis , Natallia V. Karpenka , Chris Lidman , Brian P. Schmidt , Mathew Smith

Differences in the values of the Hubble constant obtained from the local universe and the early universe have resulted in a significant tension. This tension signifies that our understanding of cosmology (physical processes and/or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Gawain Simpson , Krzysztof Bolejko , Stephen Walters

The $\Lambda$CDM model successfully explains a wide range of cosmological observations; however, persistent discrepancies most notably the $H_0$ tension between early and late time measurements challenge its completeness. No proposed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Upala Mukhopadhyay , Purba Mukherjee , Alexandre Tkatchenko

The emergence of an increasingly strong tension between the Hubble rate inferred from early- and late-time observations has reinvigorated interest in nonstandard scenarios, with the aim of reconciling these measurements. One such model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Matteo Lucca , Deanna C. Hooper

In this study, we incorporated a three-parameter family, of the metric incompatible modification of standard general relativity $f(Q)$ models into the Boltzmann code MGCLASS at both the background and perturbation levels, in order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Ziad Sakr , Leonid Schey

We present phase-corrected photometric measurements of 88 Cepheid variables in the core of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), the first sample obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Wide Field Camera 3, in the same homogeneous…

The discrepancy between early-Universe inferences and direct measurements of the Hubble constant, known as the Hubble tension, recently became a pressing subject in high precision cosmology. As a result, a large variety of theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-09 Tal Adi , Ely D. Kovetz

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) offers a unique window into the early universe, providing insights into cosmological parameters like the Hubble constant. Recent precise measurements of the CMB by experiments like Planck seem to point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Pablo Lemos , Paul Shah

We explore cosmological implications of a genuinely Weyl invariant (WI) gravitational interaction. The latter reduces to general relativity in a particular conformal frame for which the gravitational coupling and active gravitational masses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Meir Shimon

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…

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