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51 claims from 26 papers, showing 1–20 of 26

1. 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%.”

2. 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 ).”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   The Pantheon+ Analysis: Cosmological Constraints

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

   The Pantheon+ analysis uses 1701 light curves of 1550 Type Ia supernovae to constrain cosmological parameters, dark energy evolution and the Hubble constant, with improved systematics handling.

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   1. Unchecked“For a flat ΛCDM model, we find Ω M = 0.334 ± 0.018 from SNe Ia alone.”
   2. UncheckedIn a flat w0CDM model, Pantheon+ supernovae give w0 near −0.9 and, with CMB and BAO data, near −0.98, both consistent with a cosmological constant.“For a flat w 0 CDM model, we measure w 0 = −0.90 ± 0.14 from SNe Ia alone, H 0 = 73.5 ± 1.1 km s −1 Mpc −1 when including the Cepheid host distances and covariance (SH0ES), and w 0 = − 0.978 − 0.031 + 0.024 when combining the SN likelihood with Planck constraints from the cosmic microwave backgroun…”
   3. UncheckedThe paper finds that supernova-related systematic errors make up under a third of the uncertainty on H0 and do not account for the Hubble tension.“Finally, we find that systematic uncertainties in the use of SNe Ia along the distance ladder comprise less than one-third of the total uncertainty in the measurement of H 0 and cannot explain the present “Hubble tension” between local measurements and early universe predictions from the cosmologic…”

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 › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae

   Perlmutter, Aldering, Goldhaber et al. · Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona) · 1998

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   1. Unchecked“The measurement yields a joint probability distribution of the cosmological parameters that is approximated by the relation 0.8 Omega_M - 0.6 Omega_Lambda ~= -0.2 +/- 0.1 in the region of interest (Omega_M <~ 1.5).”
   2. Unchecked“For a flat (Omega_M + Omega_Lambda = 1) cosmology we find Omega_M = 0.28{+0.09,-0.08} (1 sigma statistical) {+0.05,-0.04} (identified systematics).”
   3. Unchecked“An open, Lambda = 0 cosmology also does not fit the data well: the data indicate that the cosmological constant is non-zero and positive, with a confidence of P(Lambda > 0) = 99%, including the identified systematic uncertainties.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   An overview of what current data can (and cannot yet) say about evolving dark energy

   Giarè, Mahassen, Di Valentino and Pan · Physics of the Dark Universe · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“However, intriguing hints supporting DDE emerge in combinations that do not include DESI-BAO measurements: SDSS-BAO combined with SN from Union3 and DESY5 (with and without CMB) support the preference for DDE.”

9. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Dynamical dark energy beyond Planck? Constraints from multiple CMB probes, DESI BAO, and type-Ia supernovae

   Giarè · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“Notably, in this case, the cosmological constant value is recovered within two standard deviations.”
   2. Unchecked“Overall, CMB experiments other than Planck generally weaken the evidence for DDE.”
   3. Unchecked“I argue that the subsets of Planck data that strengthen the shift toward DDE are the temperature and E-mode polarization anisotropy measurements at large angular scales $\ell \lesssim 30$.”

10. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    On the homogeneity of SnIa absolute magnitude in the Pantheon+ sample

    Perivolaropoulos and Skara · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“The tension between the $M_<$ and $M_>$ best fit values is at a level more than $3σ$ with a best fit $d_{crit}$ very close to $20Mpc$.”
    2. Unchecked“This simulation shows that the maximum significance of the SnIa luminosity transition ($Σ\equiv \frac{|M_>-M_<|}{\sqrt{σ_{M_>}^2+σ_{M_<}^2}}$) in the real data, is larger than the corresponding maximum significance of $94\%$ of the corresponding homogeneous…

11. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Model-independent cosmological inference post DESI DR1 BAO measurements

    Mukherjee and Sen · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“Reconstruction with the DESI BAO + DES-5YR SN data sets predicts that the $Λ$CDM model lies outside the 3$σ$ confidence levels, whereas with DESI BAO + Union3 data, the $Λ$CDM model is always included within 1$σ$.”

12. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Cosmological constraints on dark energy models using DESI BAO 2024

    Zheng, Qiang and You · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“Our findings indicate that in these parameterizations, the deviation from ($w_0$,$w_{1}$)=(-1,0) becomes more pronounced when using the combined data from DESI BAO, SNe Ia, and QSO compilations.”

13. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    The Dark Energy Survey: Cosmology Results With ~1500 New High-redshift Type Ia Supernovae Using The Full 5-year Dataset

    Collaboration, C., Acevedo et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“Supernova data alone now require acceleration ($q_0<0$ in $Λ$CDM) with over $5σ$ confidence.”
    2. Unchecked“Including Planck CMB data, SDSS BAO data, and DES $3\times2$-point data gives $(Ω_{\rm M},w)=(0.321\pm0.007,-0.941\pm0.026)$.”

14. 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.”

15. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Model-independent cosmological inference after the DESI DR2 data with improved inverse distance ladder

    Ling, Du, Li, Zhang, Wang and Zhang · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“For the DESY5+DESI DR2+CC datasets, we obtain $H_0 = 67.91 \pm 2.33~\mathrm{km~s^{-1}~Mpc^{-1}}$.”
    2. Unchecked“Finally, DESY5+DESI DR2+CC datasets provide nearly decisive evidence favoring the PAge model over the standard $Λ\mathrm{CDM}$ model.”

16. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Neutrino mass tension or suppressed growth rate of matter perturbations?

    Giarè, Mena, Specogna and Di Valentino · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“We show that allowing $γ$ to vary significantly relaxes the neutrino mass bounds to $\sum m_ν\lesssim 0.13$-$0.2$ eV, removing any tension with terrestrial constraints without altering the inferred value of $Ω_\mathrm{m}$.”
    2. Unchecked“However, this comes at the cost of departing from standard growth predictions: to have $\sum m_ν\gtrsim 0.06$ eV one needs $γ> 0.55$, and we find a consistent preference for $γ> 0.55$ at the level of $\sim 2σ$.”

17. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Beyond Two Parameters: Revisiting Dark Energy with the Latest Cosmic Probes

    Cheng, Pan and Di Valentino · The Astrophysical Journal · 2026

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    1. Unchecked“The results further show that $w_0 > -1$, while $w_m$ is negative, indicating a phantom-like behaviour at early times.”
    2. Unchecked“Interestingly, despite its larger parameter space, the proposed model shows a preference over the $Λ$CDM and $w_0w_a$CDM scenarios for certain combined datasets, according to both $Δχ^2$ and Bayesian evidence, although this preference is not strong.”

18. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Revisiting the phenomenologically emergent dark energy model: is non-zero equation of state of dark matter favored by DESI DR2?

    Li, Zhang, Yao et al. · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“These analyses illustrate that it is not possible to both support a non-cold dark matter component within the PEDE model and alleviate the Hubble tension simultaneously.”

19. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Dynamical Dark Energy and the Unresolved Hubble Tension: Multi-model Constraints from DESI 2025 and Other Probes

    Zhang, Xu and Chen · The Astrophysical Journal · 2026

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    1. Unchecked“Second, we find compelling evidence for dynamical dark energy: early-universe (CMB) constraints favor a phantom phase (with an equation-of-state parameter $w < -1$), while late-universe (BAO/SNIa) data prefer quintessence ($w > -1$).”
    2. Unchecked“Third, the full dataset suggests a late-time interaction between dark energy and matter.”
    3. Unchecked“First, the Hubble constant ($H_0$) inferred from the combined data consistently aligns with early-universe measurements across all models, indicating a persistent Hubble tension.”

20. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Evolving Dark Energy or Supernovae Systematics?

    Efstathiou · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“A comparison of SN common to both the DES5Y and Pantheon+ compilations shows evidence for an offset of ~0.04 mag. between low and high redshifts.”