Relations between physical observables: what is better?

Abstract

We investigate some possible relations between physical observables and estimate the "cosmic variance" which affects these measurements. We focus on redshift and angular-distance and we discuss the difference in considering the redshift as function of the angular-distance rather than the usually considered inverse relation. Already at linear level in metric perturbations, we find a significant difference. Indeed, even if both relations are led by source radial velocity for close enough sources, this effect is suppressed by 2 orders of magnitude in the redshift/angular-distance relation. This fact can significantly reduce the theoretical uncertainty for close sources already investigated in the literature for the angular-distance/redshift relation and open a new scenario for clarifying the tension in the measurement of $H_0$ from local sources rather than from the CMB.

25 pages, 11 figures, prepared for submission to JCAP, comments are welcome

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