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13 claims from 7 papers

1. 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.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   The DESI DR1/DR2 evidence for dynamical dark energy is biased by low-redshift supernovae

   Huang, Cai and Wang · Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“In this paper, we reveal that this preference is significantly biased by an external low-redshift supernova (low-$z$ SN) sample, which was combined with the Dark Energy Survey SN program (DES-SN) in their Year-Five data release (DESY5).”
   2. Unchecked“Using the intercept in the SN magnitude-distance relation as a diagnostic for systematics, we find not only large dispersions but also a large discrepancy in the low-$z$ SN sample when compared to the high-$z$ DES-SN sample within the single DESY5 compilatio…
   3. Unchecked“Correcting for this low-$z$ systematics with or without including the cosmic microwave background data can largely reduce the preference for dynamical DE to be less than $2σ$.”

3. 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.”

4. 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 $\sim 2σ$.”

5. 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.”

6. 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.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Investigating Late-Time Dark Energy and Massive Neutrinos in Light of DESI Y1 BAO

   Rebouças, de Souza, Zhong, Miranda and Rosenfeld · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“Constraints on the neutrino mass sum assuming dynamical dark energy are relaxed compared to $Λ$CDM and we show that these constraints are tighter in the model-agnostic case relative to $w_0w_a$ model by $70\%-90\%$.”
   2. Unchecked“We find that the combination of DESI BAO with Planck 2018 CMB data and SN data from Pantheon, Pantheon+, or Union3 is consistent with an oscillatory dark energy equation of state, while a monotonic behavior is preferred by the DESY5 SN data.”