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20242026
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6 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Chromatic Effects Across the Roman Focal Plane: Implications for Supernova Photometry and Measurements of Cosmological Parameters

Rujuta Purohit, Dillon Brout, Daniel Scolnic +14

Calibration uncertainties are the leading systematics in cosmological analyses using Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). For the \textit{Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman)}, we qua…

astro-ph.GA2025

Converging on the Cepheid Metallicity Dependence: Implications of Non-Standard Gaia Parallax Recalibration on Distance Measures

Louise Breuval, Gagandeep S. Anand, Richard I. Anderson +20

By comparing Cepheid brightnesses with geometric distance measures including Gaia EDR3 parallaxes, most recent analyses conclude metal-rich Cepheids are brighter, quantified as $γ…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Perfect Host: JWST Cepheid Observations in a Background-Free SN Ia Host Confirm No Bias in Hubble-Constant Measurements

Adam G. Riess, Siyang Li, Gagandeep S. Anand +8

Cycle 1 JWST observations of Cepheids in SN Ia hosts resolved their red-giant-dominated NIR backgrounds, sharply reducing crowding and showing that photometric bias in lower-resolu…

astro-ph.CO2025

The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics

Eleonora Di Valentino, Jackson Levi Said, Adam Riess +533

The standard model of cosmology has provided a good phenomenological description of a wide range of observations both at astrophysical and cosmological scales for several decades.…

astro-ph.CO2025

JAGB 2.0: Improved Constraints on the J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch-based Hubble Constant from an Expanded Sample of JWST Observations

Siyang Li, Adam G. Riess, Daniel Scolnic +2

The J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch (JAGB) is an overdensity of stars in the near-infrared, attributed to carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch stars, and recently used as a standar…

astro-ph.CO2024

JWST Validates HST Distance Measurements: Selection of Supernova Subsample Explains Differences in JWST Estimates of Local H0

Adam G. Riess, Dan Scolnic, Gagandeep S. Anand +16

JWST provides new opportunities to cross-check the HST Cepheid/SNeIa distance ladder, which yields the most precise local measure of H0. We analyze early JWST subsamples (~1/4 of t…