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23 claims from 12 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Planck 2018 results

   Aghanim, Akrami, Ashdown et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2020

   Final full-mission Planck cosmic microwave background data, with temperature, polarization and lensing, are used to measure cosmological parameters, finding good consistency with the standard six-parameter ΛCDM model.

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   1. UncheckedPlanck's combined analysis gives dark matter and baryon densities, spectral index and optical depth, each with stated 68% uncertainties, in base ΛCDM.“A combined analysis gives dark matter density Ω c h 2 = 0.120 ± 0.001, baryon density Ω b h 2 = 0.0224 ± 0.0001, scalar spectral index n s = 0.965 ± 0.004, and optical depth τ = 0.054 ± 0.007 (in this abstract we quote 68% confidence regions on measured parameters and 95% on upper limits).”
   2. UncheckedPlanck with BAO data gives N_eff = 2.99 ± 0.17, matching the Standard Model's 3.046, and limits the summed neutrino mass to below 0.12 eV.“Combining with baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements (and considering single-parameter extensions) we constrain the effective extra relativistic degrees of freedom to be N eff = 2.99 ± 0.17, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction N eff = 3.046, and find that the neutrino mass is t…”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   A 2.4% Determination of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant

   Riess, Macri, Hoffmann et al. · OakTrust (Texas A&M University Libraries) · 2016

   Using Hubble Space Telescope observations of Cepheids in the hosts of Type Ia supernovae, the authors cut the uncertainty on the local Hubble constant from 3.3% to 2.4%.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper's best estimate of the local Hubble constant is 73.24 ± 1.74 km/s/Mpc, a 2.4% uncertainty, combining three distance anchors.“Our best estimate of 73.24+/-1.74 km/sec/Mpc combines the anchors NGC4258, MW, and LMC, and includes systematic errors for a final uncertainty of 2.4%.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   The Pantheon+ Analysis: The Full Data Set and Light-curve Release

   Scolnic, Brout, Carr et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“The total number of light curves, which are compiled across 18 different surveys, is a significant increase from the first Pantheon analysis (1048 SNe), particularly at low redshift ( z ).”
   2. Unchecked“Furthermore, unlike in the Pantheon analysis, we include light curves for SNe with z < 0.01 such that SN systematic covariance can be included in a joint measurement of the Hubble constant ( H 0 ) and the dark energy equation-of-state parameter ( w ).”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Cosmological implications of baryon acoustic oscillation measurements

   Aubourg, Bailey, Bautista et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“Combining BAO and SN data into an "inverse distance ladder" yields a 1.7% measurement of $H_0=67.3 \pm1.1$ km/s/Mpc.”
   2. Unchecked“For open LCDM, our BAO+SN+CMB combination yields $Ω_m=0.301 \pm 0.008$ and curvature $Ω_k=-0.003 \pm 0.003$.”
   3. Unchecked“Expansion history alone yields an upper limit of 0.56 eV on the summed mass of neutrino species, improving to 0.26 eV if we include Planck CMB lensing.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   A Comprehensive Measurement of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant with 1 km/s/Mpc Uncertainty from the Hubble Space Telescope and the SH0ES Team

   Riess, Yuan, Macri et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“Our baseline result from the Cepheid-SN sample is H0=73.04+-1.04 km/s/Mpc, which includes systematics and lies near the median of all analysis variants.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Nonparametric late-time expansion history reconstruction and implications for the Hubble tension in light of recent DESI and type Ia supernovae data

   Jiang, Pedrotti, da Costa and Vagnozzi · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“Applied to DESI BAO and PantheonPlus SNeIa data, both methods indicate that deviations from a reference $Λ$CDM model in the $z \lesssim 2$ unnormalized expansion rate $E(z)$ are constrained to be $\lesssim 10\%$, but also consistently identify two features i…
   2. Unchecked“Breaking the $r_d$-$H_0$ degeneracy with the SH0ES prior on $H_0$, the significance of the tension between our nonparametric determination of $r_d=136.20^{+2.20}_{-2.40}\,{\text{Mpc}}$ and the \textit{Planck} $Λ$CDM-based determination is at the $5σ$ level,…
   3. Unchecked“We infer $c/(r_dH_0)=29.90 \pm 0.33$, with $r_d$ the sound horizon at baryon drag and $H_0$ the Hubble constant.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

   Cluster Cepheids with High Precision Gaia Parallaxes, Low Zero-point Uncertainties, and Hubble Space Telescope Photometry

   Riess, Breuval, Yuan et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“We find no evidence of residual parallax offset in this magnitude range, zp=-3+/-4 muas, consistent with Lindegren:2021b and most studies.”
   2. Unchecked“The Cepheid luminosity (P=10d, solar-metallicity) in the HST near-infrared, Wesenheit system derived from the cluster sample is M_{H,1}^W=-5.902+/-0.025 and -5.890+/-0.018 mag with or without simultaneous determination of a parallax offset, respectively.”
   3. Unchecked“The SH0ES distance ladder calibrated solely from this sample gives H_0=72.8+/-1.3 and H_0=73.2+/-1.1 km/s/Mpc with or without offset marginalization; combined with all anchors we find H_0=73.01+/-0.99 and 73.15+/-0.97, respectively, a 5% or 7% reduction in t…

8. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Optimal parameterizations for observational constraints on thawing dark energy

   Shlivko, Steinhardt and Steinhardt · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“We find that a targeted parameterization derived from a Padé expansion of $w$ is the most reliable of these, producing accurate reconstructions of $w(z)$, the expansion history $H(z)$, and cosmological parameters such as $H_0$ and $Ω_m$ for a broad range of…

9. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Is dynamical dark energy necessary? DESI BAO and modified recombination

   Mirpoorian, Jedamzik and Pogosian · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“A global fit to BAO, CMB, and calibrated SN data favors modified recombination over DDE.”

10. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    The Pantheon+ Analysis: Evaluating Peculiar Velocity Corrections in Cosmological Analyses with Nearby Type Ia Supernovae

    Peterson, Kenworthy, Scolnic et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We find the optimal flow corrections derived from various local density maps significantly reduce Hubble residuals while raising $H_0$ by $\sim0.4$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$ as compared to using CMB redshifts, disfavoring the hypothesis that unrecognized local…
    2. Unchecked“We estimate that the systematic uncertainties in cosmological parameters after optimally correcting redshifts are 0.06-0.11 km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$ in $H_0$ and 0.02-0.03 in $w$ which are smaller than the statistical uncertainties for these measurements: 1.5…

11. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid Standards Provide a 1% Foundation for the Determination of the Hubble Constant and Stronger Evidence for Physics beyond ΛCDM

    Riess, Casertano, Yuan, Macri and Scolnic · The Astrophysical Journal · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Combining the LMC DEBs, masers in NGC 4258 and Milky Way parallaxes yields our best estimate: H0 = 74.03 +/- 1.42 km/s/Mpc, including systematics, an uncertainty of 1.91%---15% lower than our best previous result.”
    2. Unchecked“The difference between H0 measured locally and the value inferred from Planck CMB+LCDM is 6.6+/-1.5 km/s/Mpc or 4.4 sigma (P=99.999% for Gaussian errors) in significance, raising the discrepancy beyond a plausible level of chance.”

12. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant

    Riess, Filippenko, Challis et al. · The Astronomical Journal · 1998

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    1. Unchecked“Different light curve fitting methods, SN Ia subsamples, and prior constraints unanimously favor eternally expanding models with positive cosmological constant (i.e., Omega_Lambda > 0) and a current acceleration of the expansion (i.e., q_0 < 0).”
    2. Unchecked“A Universe closed by ordinary matter (i.e., Omega_M=1) is ruled out at the 7 sigma to 8 sigma level.”