skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Determining the Hubble Constant from Hubble Parameter Measurements

Abstract

We use 28 Hubble parameter, H($$z$$), measurements at intermediate redshifts 0.07 $$\leqslant z \leqslant$$ 2.3 to determine the present-day Hubble constant H0 in four cosmological models. We measure H0 = 68:3$$^{+2.7}_{-2.6}$$, 68.4$$^{+2.9}_{-3.3}$$, 65.0$$^{+6.5}_{-6:6}$$ and 67.9$$^{+2.4}_{-2.4}$$ km s-1 Mpc-1 ( σ errors) in the ΛCDM (spatially flat and non-flat), ωCDM and ΦCDM models, respectively. These measured H0 values are more consistent with the lower values determined from recent cosmic microwave background and baryon acoustic oscillation data, as well as with that found from a median statistics analysis of Huchra’s compilation of H0 measurements, but include the higher local measurements of H0 within the 2σ confidence limits.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3]
  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China). National Astronomical Observatories, Key Lab. for Computational Astrophysics
  2. Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, Rajasthan (India). Dept. of Mathematics
  3. Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States). Dept. of Physics
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1532969
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG03-99ER41093
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
The Astrophysical Journal (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 835; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; astronomy & astrophysics; cosmological parameters; dark energy

Citation Formats

Chen, Yun, Kumar, Suresh, and Ratra, Bharat. Determining the Hubble Constant from Hubble Parameter Measurements. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/835/1/86.
Chen, Yun, Kumar, Suresh, & Ratra, Bharat. Determining the Hubble Constant from Hubble Parameter Measurements. United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/835/1/86
Chen, Yun, Kumar, Suresh, and Ratra, Bharat. 2017. "Determining the Hubble Constant from Hubble Parameter Measurements". United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/835/1/86. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1532969.
@article{osti_1532969,
title = {Determining the Hubble Constant from Hubble Parameter Measurements},
author = {Chen, Yun and Kumar, Suresh and Ratra, Bharat},
abstractNote = {We use 28 Hubble parameter, H($z$), measurements at intermediate redshifts 0.07 $\leqslant z \leqslant$ 2.3 to determine the present-day Hubble constant H0 in four cosmological models. We measure H0 = 68:3$^{+2.7}_{-2.6}$, 68.4$^{+2.9}_{-3.3}$, 65.0$^{+6.5}_{-6:6}$ and 67.9$^{+2.4}_{-2.4}$ km s-1 Mpc-1 ( σ errors) in the ΛCDM (spatially flat and non-flat), ωCDM and ΦCDM models, respectively. These measured H0 values are more consistent with the lower values determined from recent cosmic microwave background and baryon acoustic oscillation data, as well as with that found from a median statistics analysis of Huchra’s compilation of H0 measurements, but include the higher local measurements of H0 within the 2σ confidence limits.},
doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/835/1/86},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1532969}, journal = {The Astrophysical Journal (Online)},
issn = {1538-4357},
number = 1,
volume = 835,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Fri Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}

Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 96 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

Cosmographic bounds on the cosmological deceleration-acceleration transition redshift in f ( R ) gravity
journal, August 2014


A 2.4% Determination of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant
journal, July 2016


Constraints on the redshift dependence of the dark energy potential
journal, June 2005


Cosmological Constraints from Hubble Parameter versus Redshift Data
journal, September 2006


Carnegie Hubble Program: a Mid-Infrared Calibration of the Hubble Constant
journal, September 2012


A 6% measurement of the Hubble parameter at z ∼0.45: direct evidence of the epoch of cosmic re-acceleration
journal, May 2016


QUANTIFYING DISCORDANCE IN THE 2015 PLANCK CMB SPECTRUM
journal, February 2016


Hubble Parameter Measurement Constraints on dark Energy
journal, February 2013


Median Statistics, H 0 , and the Accelerating Universe
journal, March 2001


The expansion rate of the intermediate universe in light of Planck
journal, December 2014


Constraints on a ϕCDM model from strong gravitational lensing and updated Hubble parameter measurements
journal, February 2015


Planck 2015 results : XIII. Cosmological parameters
journal, September 2016


Cosmic chronometers: constraining the equation of state of dark energy. I: H ( z ) measurements
journal, February 2010


Final Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant
journal, May 2001


CONSTRAINTS ON NON-FLAT COSMOLOGIES WITH MASSIVE NEUTRINOS AFTER PLANCK 2015
journal, September 2016


Hubble parameter data constraints on dark energy
journal, September 2011


Binned Hubble parameter measurements and the cosmological deceleration–acceleration transition
journal, October 2013


The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: joint measurements of the expansion and growth history at z < 1 : WiggleZ Survey: expansion history
journal, July 2012


Reconciling Planck with the local value of H 0 in extended parameter space
journal, October 2016


The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: cosmological parameters from three seasons of data
journal, October 2013


Non-Gaussian error distribution of 7Li abundance measurements
journal, July 2015


The clustering of the SDSS DR7 main Galaxy sample – I. A 4 per cent distance measure at z = 0.15
journal, March 2015


Acceleration of the universe: a reconstruction of the effective equation of state
journal, April 2016


Improved constraints on the expansion rate of the Universe up to z ∼ 1.1 from the spectroscopic evolution of cosmic chronometers
journal, August 2012


Cosmological parameters from CMB and other data: A Monte Carlo approach
journal, November 2002


Binned Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Power Spectra: Peak Location
journal, September 2001


Cosmological consequences of a rolling homogeneous scalar field
journal, June 1988


Cosmology with a time-variable cosmological 'constant'
journal, February 1988


The trouble with H 0
journal, October 2016


Impact of H 0 prior on the evidence for dark radiation
journal, August 2012


Median Statistics and the Hubble Constant
journal, September 2011


Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Ly α forest of BOSS quasars
journal, April 2013


Is There Evidence for dark Energy Evolution?
journal, April 2015


Non-Gaussian Error Distributions of lmc Distance Moduli Measurements
journal, December 2015


Non‐Gaussian Error Distribution of Hubble Constant Measurements
journal, November 2003

  • Chen, Gang; Gott III, J. Richard; Ratra, Bharat
  • Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 115, Issue 813
  • https://doi.org/10.1086/379219

Tests of cosmological models constrained by inflation
journal, September 1984


H0 revisited
journal, March 2014


Median Statistics and the Mass Density of the Universe
journal, September 2003


NINE-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE ( WMAP ) OBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETER RESULTS
journal, September 2013


A 3% SOLUTION: DETERMINATION OF THE HUBBLE CONSTANT WITH THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE AND WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3
journal, March 2011


WHAT ARE THE Omh 2 ( z 1 , z 2 ) AND Om ( z 1 , z 2 ) DIAGNOSTICS TELLING US IN LIGHT OF H ( z ) DATA?
journal, June 2016


Is there a concordance value for H 0 ?
journal, November 2016


Improved Age Estimation for Solar‐Type Dwarfs Using Activity‐Rotation Diagnostics
journal, November 2008


Cosmological implications of baryon acoustic oscillation measurements
journal, December 2015


Median statistics cosmological parameter values
journal, May 2014


Planck 2015 results : XXIII. The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect-cosmic infrared background correlation
journal, September 2016


Planck 2015 results : X. Diffuse component separation: Foreground maps
journal, September 2016


Planck 2015 results : XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB
journal, September 2016


Planck 2015 results : XXVI. The Second
journal, September 2016


The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmological parameters from three seasons of data
text, January 2013


Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters
text, January 2015


Is there evidence for dark energy evolution?
text, January 2015


Quantifying discordance in the 2015 Planck CMB spectrum
text, January 2015


A 2.4% Determination of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant
text, January 2016


Works referencing / citing this record:

Planck 2015 constraints on spatially-flat dynamical dark energy models
journal, October 2019


Recovering $$\Lambda $$ΛCDM model from a cosmographic study
journal, February 2020


Observational constraints on Hubble parameter in viscous generalized Chaplygin gas
journal, November 2017


Testing general relativity in cosmology
journal, December 2018


Model-independent cosmic acceleration and redshift-dependent intrinsic luminosity in type-Ia supernovae
journal, April 2019


Prospect for Cosmological Parameter Estimation Using Future Hubble Parameter Measurements
journal, October 2018


Constraints on H 0 from WMAP and BAO Measurements
journal, July 2019


Constraining cosmic curvature by using age of galaxies and gravitational lenses
journal, March 2017


H 0 from cosmic chronometers and Type Ia supernovae, with Gaussian Processes and the novel Weighted Polynomial Regression method
journal, April 2018


Updated bounds on sum of neutrino masses in various cosmological scenarios
journal, September 2018


Most Frequent Value Statistics and the Hubble Constant
journal, June 2018


Quasar X-ray and UV flux, baryon acoustic oscillation, and Hubble parameter measurement constraints on cosmological model parameters
journal, January 2020


First study of reionization in the Planck 2015 normalized closed ΛCDM inflation model
journal, July 2018


Constraints on dark energy dynamics and spatial curvature from Hubble parameter and baryon acoustic oscillation data
journal, July 2018


Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: A Precise H0 Estimate from DES Y1, BAO, and D/H Data
journal, July 2018


Baryon acoustic oscillation, Hubble parameter, and angular size measurement constraints on the Hubble constant, dark energy dynamics, and spatial curvature
journal, July 2019


General cosmography model with spatial curvature
journal, December 2019


Constraints on quintessence scalar field models using cosmological observations
journal, July 2019


Viscous dark energy in Bianchi type V spacetime
journal, December 2017


Consistency of nonlinear interacting ghost dark energy with recent observations
journal, September 2017


Some models of holographic dark energy on the Randall–Sundrum brane and observational data
journal, December 2019


Dynamical Effects of the Scale Invariance of the Empty Space: The Fall of Dark Matter?
journal, November 2017


Planck 2015 Constraints on the Non-flat ΛCDM Inflation Model
journal, August 2018


Planck 2015 Constraints on the Nonflat ϕ CDM Inflation Model
journal, October 2018


Planck 2015 Constraints on the Non-flat XCDM Inflation Model
journal, December 2018


Are H 0 and σ 8 Tensions Generic to Present Cosmological Data?
journal, May 2019


Measuring the Distances to Quasars at High Redshifts with Strong Lensing
journal, September 2019


Planck 2015 constraints on the non-flat XCDM inflation model
text, January 2017