1.8 per cent measurement of H0 from Cepheids alone

ABSTRACT One of the most pressing problems in current cosmology is the cause of the Hubble tension. We revisit a two-rung distance ladder, composed only of Cepheid periods and magnitudes, anchor distances in the Milky Way, Large Magellanic Cloud, NGC 4258, and host galaxy redshifts. We adopt the SH0...

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Published in:Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026-02, Vol.546 (2)
Main Authors: Stiskalek, Richard, Desmond, Harry, Tsaprazi, Eleni, Heavens, Alan, Lavaux, Guilhem, McAlpine, Stuart, Jasche, Jens
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Astronomical models
Cepheid variables
Cosmic microwave background
Cosmology
Dark energy
Equations of state
Galaxies
Magellanic clouds
Supernovae
Velocity distribution
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