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Investigating the Hubble Constant Tension: Two Numbers in the Standard Cosmological Model

  • Authors: Weikang Lin, Katherine J. Mack, and Liqiang Hou

2020 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 904 L22.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Different constraints in the H0 and Ωm space based on a flat ΛCDM model, as in Figure 1. As above, dark and light contours show the 68% and 95% confidence regions of each posterior. Here the cosmic-age bound is omitted. In the left panel, we plot the TRGB constraint instead of CV SN, and on the right, we plot all of the quoted local measurements of H0 in Section 3. The error bars in the right panel should be interpreted as vertical bands, with the thick and thin lines representing 1σ and 2σ confidence ranges, respectively. Local measurements tend to give a higher H0 value than indicated by the white circle. However, we note that they are not all independent from each other, and their favored ranges depend on the calibration adopted; see the end of Section 3 for a discussion. In both panels, we included the constraints from SPT SZ clustering (lime), for which we restrict that 0.0006 ≤ Ωνh2 ≤ 0.0009 for the standard ΛCDM, since the chains obtained from https://pole.uchicago.edu are based on a νΛ CDM model with a large range of Ωνh2.

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