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Sebastian Rueda-Blanco

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Determination of $H_{0}$ with a Photometric AGN Golden Sample derived from a joint SN Ia-QSO cosmological reconstruction

The current tension between early and late-Universe determinations of the Hubble constant motivates the development of independent high-redshift distance tracers. Quasars, as luminous active galactic nuclei - AGNs, provide a promising route through the empirical relation between their X-ray and ultraviolet luminosities.We construct a joint Type Ia supernova-quasar Hubble diagram and investigate whether a statistically selected quasar subsample can define a preliminary golden sample for future AGN standardization. We combine calibrated Type Ia supernovae with SDSS DR14 quasars and infer the cosmological parameters from the posterior distribution of a joint model. Posterior medians and credible intervals are obtained from the marginalized distributions. We further define redshift-dependent quasar pools from SDSS queries and select the most representative sources in each bin using a multivariate statistical-distance criterion based on redshift, optical magnitudes, and SDSS colors. The posterior analysis yields $H_0 = 71.76^{+1.67}_{-1.31}\,\mathrm{km\,s^{-1}\,Mpc^{-1}}$ and $\Omega_m = 0.294^{+0.014}_{-0.012}$. The statistically selected quasar candidates reproduce the reference Hubble diagram with small residual dispersion across multiple redshift intervals and remain broadly distributed across the SDSS angular footprint without evidence of strong artificial clustering induced by the selection procedure.

physics.gen-ph

Evaluating a Sigmoid Dark Energy Model to Explain the Hubble Tension

In this study we analyze Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) data sourced from the Pantheon+ compilation to investigate late-time physics effects influencing the expansion history, $H(z)$, at redshifts $(z < 2)$. Our focus centers on a time-varying dark energy (DE) model that introduces a rapid transition in the equation of state, at a specific redshift, $z_a$, from the baseline, $Λ= -1$, value to the present value, $w_0$, through the implementation of a sigmoid function. The constraints obtained for the DE sigmoid phenomenological parametrization have broad applicability for dynamic DE models that invoke late-time physics. Our analysis indicates that the sigmoid model provides a slightly better, though not statistically significant, fit to the SNe Pantheon+ data compared to the standard LCDM alone. The fit results, assuming a flat geometry and maintaining $Ω_m$ constant at the 2018-Planck value of $0.3153$, are as follows: $H_0 = 73.3^{+0.2}_{-0.6}$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$, $w_{0} = -0.95^{+0.15}_{-0.02}$, $z_a = 0.8 \pm 0.46$. The errors represent statistical uncertainties only. The available SN dataset lacks sufficient statistical power to distinguish between the baseline LCDM and the alternative sigmoid models. A feature of interest offered by the sigmoid model is that it identifies a specific redshift, $z_a = 0.8$, where a potential transition in the equation of state could have occurred. The sigmoid model does not favor a DE in the phantom region ($w_0 < -1$). Further constraints to the dynamic DE model have been obtained using CMB data to compute the distance to the last scattering surface. While the sigmoid DE model does not completely resolve the $H_0$ tension, it offers a transition mechanism that can still play a role alongside other potential solutions.

astro-ph.CO