A new measurement of the Hubble constant and matter content of the Universe using extragalactic background light $γ$-ray attenuation — mentioned by astro123

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 08:30:16 GMT

The paper is https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.12097.pdf for anyone interested. The results aren't actually that interesting. The posterior on H0 (the rate that the universe is expanding) is not at all competitive with the current best methods. They get 67 +/- 6 whereas things like Planck have error bars on the order of 1. Checkout their figure 5 to see the different error bars. That is not to say the paper is bad at all! The method they use is pretty cool and not common (at least I haven't seen it used before, though they do mention there have been people looking at this for a while). Also, as the…

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A new measurement of the Hubble constant and matter content of the Universe using extragalactic background light $γ$-ray attenuation — mentioned by astro123