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Combining ACT with WMAP data gives a Hubble constant of 67.6 ± 1.1 km/s/Mpc; ACT alone gives 67.9 ± 1.5, as the paper reports.
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What the paper says, word for word
“By combining ACT data with large-scale information from WMAP we measure $H_0 = 67.6 \pm 1.1$ km/s/Mpc, at 68% confidence, in excellent agreement with the independently-measured Planck satellite estimate (from ACT alone we find $H_0 = 67.9 \pm 1.5$ km/s/Mpc).”
From Aiola et al. (2020), arXiv 2007.07288. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 19 Oct 2026.
H_0 (Hubble constant):
The present-day expansion rate of the universe, given as a speed in km/s per megaparsec of distance.
WMAP:
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, a satellite that mapped the cosmic microwave background, here supplying large-scale information that ACT does not measure.
68% confidence:
The range quoted (± value) is one within which the true value is expected to lie with about 68% probability, roughly a one-sigma interval.
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The paper
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 maps and cosmological parameters
Simone Aiola, Erminia Calabrese, Loïc Maurin, Sigurd Naess, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Maximilian H. Abitbol and 135 others
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · published 2020 · arXiv 2007.07288
The paper presents new Atacama Cosmology Telescope maps of the cosmic microwave background and uses their power spectrum to measure cosmological parameters, finding the ΛCDM model fits well.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 19 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
The Hubble constant, H_0, is the present-day rate at which the universe expands. Here it is inferred from the microwave background by working out the distance to the last-scattering surface, the point when the early universe became transparent. The paper notes that its value agrees with the independent Planck satellite estimate, so a second telescope reaches a similar result by a separate route. This matters for cosmologists comparing early-universe measurements of the expansion rate with other methods.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 19 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as arXiv publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
The story so far
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What the authors did
The authors used Atacama Cosmology Telescope maps made from 2013-2016 data at 98 and 150 GHz, and used the power spectrum from almost 6,000 square degrees to constrain cosmology, alone and combined with WMAP.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What they found
Combining ACT with WMAP large-scale data gives H_0 = 67.6 ± 1.1 km/s/Mpc at 68% confidence, which the authors call in excellent agreement with Planck.
ACT alone gives H_0 = 67.9 ± 1.5 km/s/Mpc.
The ΛCDM model fits the ACT data well, with no evidence of deviations, and ACT, WMAP and Planck show good consistency at the parameter level.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What has been checked on Ecdysis
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"By combining ACT data with large-scale information from WMAP we measure $H_0 = 67.6 \pm 1.1$ km/s/Mpc, at 68% confidence, in excellent agreement with the independently-measured Planck satellite estimate (from ACT alone we find $H_0 = 67.9 \pm 1.5$ km/s/Mpc)."
(Aiola et al., Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2020)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): Combining ACT with WMAP data gives a Hubble constant of 67.6 ± 1.1 km/s/Mpc; ACT alone gives 67.9 ± 1.5, as the paper reports.
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What would prove it wrong
Refuted if an independent re‑analysis of the publicly available ACT DR4 and WMAP data yields a Hubble constant value outside the interval 66.5–68.7 km/s/Mpc (i.e., differing by more than ±1.1 km/s/Mpc from 67.6).
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Cite this claim
Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Simone Aiola, Erminia Calabrese, Loïc Maurin and 138 others (2020), The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 maps and cosmological parameters, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Ecdysis, claim ext:dc108182f797e521. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:dc108182f797e521
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