A buyer's guide to the Hubble constant

P Shah, P Lemos, O Lahav - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2021 - Springer
Since the expansion of the universe was first established by Edwin Hubble and Georges
Lemaître about a century ago, the Hubble constant H_0 H 0 which measures its rate has …

Observational clues to the progenitors of type Ia supernovae

D Maoz, F Mannucci, G Nelemans - Annual Review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are important distance indicators, element factories, cosmic-ray
accelerators, kinetic-energy sources in galaxy evolution, and end points of stellar binary …

The Pantheon+ analysis: cosmological constraints

D Brout, D Scolnic, B Popovic, AG Riess… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present constraints on cosmological parameters from the Pantheon+ analysis of 1701
light curves of 1550 distinct Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) ranging in redshift from z= 0.001 to …

Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid standards provide a 1% foundation for the determination of the Hubble constant and stronger evidence for physics beyond ΛCDM

AG Riess, S Casertano, W Yuan… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an improved determination of the Hubble constant from Hubble Space
Telescope (HST) observations of 70 long-period Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud …

New physics in light of the tension: An alternative view

S Vagnozzi - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
The strong discrepancy between local and early-time (inverse distance ladder) estimates of
the Hubble constant H 0 could be pointing towards new physics beyond the concordance Λ …

The complete light-curve sample of spectroscopically confirmed SNe Ia from Pan-STARRS1 and cosmological constraints from the combined pantheon sample

DM Scolnic, DO Jones, A Rest, YC Pan… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present optical light curves, redshifts, and classifications for 365 spectroscopically
confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) Medium …

Nonminimal dark sector physics and cosmological tensions

E Di Valentino, A Melchiorri, O Mena, S Vagnozzi - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We explore whether nonstandard dark sector physics might be required to solve the existing
cosmological tensions. The properties we consider in combination are (a) an interaction …

The zwicky transient facility: science objectives

MJ Graham, SR Kulkarni, EC Bellm… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public–private enterprise, is a new time-
domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope …

A 2.4% determination of the local value of the Hubble constant

AG Riess, LM Macri, SL Hoffmann… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We use the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the Hubble Space Telescope
(HST) to reduce the uncertainty in the local value of the Hubble constant from 3.3% to 2.4 …

Revealing intrinsic flat biases with standardizable candles

E Ó Colgáin, MM Sheikh-Jabbari, R Solomon… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Emerging high-redshift cosmological probes, in particular quasars (QSOs), show a
preference for larger matter densities, Ω m≈ 1, within the flat Λ CDM framework. Here, using …