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3 claims from 2 papers

1. 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

   Hubble Space Telescope observations of 70 Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheids tighten the local Hubble constant measurement and deepen its mismatch with the value inferred from Planck CMB+LCDM.

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   1. UncheckedCombining three distance anchors, the authors estimate the Hubble constant at 74.03 ± 1.42 km/s/Mpc, a 1.91% uncertainty and 15% lower than before.“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. UncheckedLocal measurements of the Hubble constant differ from the Planck-based value by 6.6 ± 1.5 km/s/Mpc, which the paper puts at 4.4 sigma.“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.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   The trouble with H 0

   Bernal, Verde and Riess · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2016

   The paper studies the Hubble constant tension, rebuilds the late-time expansion history from supernovae and baryon oscillations, and tests whether early-time physics such as dark radiation could resolve it.

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   1. UncheckedThe H0 tension arises because the authors' own measurement of the sound horizon r_s differs from the value normally inferred from the CMB.“The tension in $H_0$ reflects a mismatch between our determination of $r_s$ and its standard, CMB-inferred value.”