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Clarifying the Hubble constant tension with a Bayesian hierarchical model of the local distance ladder

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 نشر من قبل Stephen Feeney
 تاريخ النشر 2017
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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Estimates of the Hubble constant, $H_0$, from the distance ladder and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) differ at the $sim$3-$sigma$ level, indicating a potential issue with the standard $Lambda$CDM cosmology. Interpreting this tension correctly requires a model comparison calculation depending on not only the traditional `$n$-$sigma$ mismatch but also the tails of the likelihoods. Determining the form of the tails of the local $H_0$ likelihood is impossible with the standard Gaussian least-squares approximation, as it requires using non-Gaussian distributions to faithfully represent anchor likelihoods and model outliers in the Cepheid and supernova (SN) populations, and simultaneous fitting of the full distance-ladder dataset to correctly propagate uncertainties. We have developed a Bayesian hierarchical model that describes the full distance ladder, from nearby geometric anchors through Cepheids to Hubble-Flow SNe. This model does not rely on any distributions being Gaussian, allowing outliers to be modeled and obviating the need for arbitrary data cuts. Sampling from the $sim$3000-parameter joint posterior using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, we find $H_0$ = (72.72 $pm$ 1.67) ${rm km,s^{-1},Mpc^{-1}}$ when applied to the outlier-cleaned Riess et al. (2016) data, and ($73.15 pm 1.78$) ${rm km,s^{-1},Mpc^{-1}}$ with SN outliers reintroduced. Our high-fidelity sampling of the low-$H_0$ tail of the distance-ladder likelihood allows us to apply Bayesian model comparison to assess the evidence for deviation from $Lambda$CDM. We set up this comparison to yield a lower limit on the odds of the underlying model being $Lambda$CDM given the distance-ladder and Planck XIII (2016) CMB data. The odds against $Lambda$CDM are at worst 10:1 or 7:1, depending on whether the SNe outliers are cut or modeled, or 60:1 if an approximation to the Planck Int. XLVI (2016) likelihood is used.



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