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Topic: Cosmology and Gravitation Theories ×Clear all

40 claims from 25 papers, showing 1–20 of 25

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

   ACCELERATING UNIVERSES WITH SCALING DARK MATTER

   CHEVALLIER and POLARSKI · International Journal of Modern Physics D · 2001

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   1. Unchecked“Using a simple toy model with a varying equation of state, we show that even a large variation of $w_X$ at small redshifts is very difficult to observe with $d_L(z)$ measurements up to $z\sim 1$.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   The Pantheon+ Analysis: Cosmological Constraints

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

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   1. Unchecked“For a flat ΛCDM model, we find Ω M = 0.334 ± 0.018 from SNe Ia alone.”
   2. Unchecked“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 constr…
   3. Unchecked“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…

5. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing

   Abbott, Aguena, Alarcon et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“We find consistent cosmological results between the three two-point correlation functions; their combination yields clustering amplitude $S_8=0.776^{+0.017}_{-0.017}$ and matter density $Ω_{\mathrm{m}} = 0.339^{+0.032}_{-0.031}$ in $Λ$CDM, mean with 68% conf…

6. 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.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   DESI 2024: reconstructing dark energy using crossing statistics with DESI DR1 BAO data

   Calderón, Lodha, Shafieloo et al. · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“Our results hint towards an evolving and emergent dark energy behaviour, with negligible presence of dark energy at $z\gtrsim 1$, at varying significance depending on the data sets combined.”
   2. Unchecked“In all these reconstructions, the cosmological constant lies outside the $95\%$ confidence intervals for some redshift ranges.”

8. 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.”

9. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Using non-DESI data to confirm and strengthen the DESI 2024 spatially flat w 0 w a CDM cosmological parametrization result

   Park, Pérez and Ratra · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“From our joint compilation of CMB and non-CMB data, in a spatially-flat cosmological model, we obtain $w_0 = -0.850 \pm 0.059$ and $w_a = -0.59^{+0.26}_{-0.22}$ and find that this dynamical dark energy is favored over a cosmological constant by $\sim 2σ$.”

10. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Interpreting DESI 2024 BAO: Late-time dynamical dark energy or a local effect?

    Gialamas, Hütsi, Kannike et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“We find that this result is driven by low-$z$ supernova data.”

11. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Limits on primordial non-Gaussianities from BOSS galaxy-clustering data

    D’Amico, Lewandowski, Senatore and Zhang · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“After validating our analysis against simulations, we find $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm equil.}= 207 \pm 292\, , f_{\rm NL}^{\rm orth.}= -68 \pm 73\, , f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc.}= 52 \pm 34$, at $68\%$ confidence level.”

12. 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.”

13. 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.”

14. 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…

15. 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 $2σ$.”

16. 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.”

17. 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.”

18. 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.”

19. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Is curvature-assisted quintessence observationally viable?

    Alestas, Delgado, Ruiz, Akrami, Montero and Nesseris · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“Here, we show, through a dynamical systems analysis and a Bayesian statistical inference of cosmological parameters, that the additional cosmological solutions based on the new fixed point do not render steep-potential, single-field, accelerated expansion ob…

20. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Reconstruction of dark energy and late-time cosmic expansion using the Weighted Function Regression method

    González-Fuentes and Gómez-Valent · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“The combined analysis of CMB, BAO, and SNIa data favors an effective DE component that transitions from phantom to quintessence behavior at redshift z cross ∼ 0.4.”
    2. Unchecked“The probability of phantom crossing lies between 96.21% and 99.97%, depending on the SNIa data set used, and hence a simple monotonic evolution of the DE density is excluded at the ∼ 2-4σ CL.”
    3. Unchecked“Moreover, applying Occam's razor, we find no significant evidence for a negative dark energy density below z ∼ 2.5-3.”