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2024
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11916 |
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- We assess the consistency of cosmological models that alter the size of the sound horizon at last scattering to resolve the Hubble tension with data from ACT + Planck CMB lensing, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, and supernova data from Pantheon or Pantheon+. We use early dark energy (EDE) as an example model but conclude that the results apply to other similar models. We constrain $Λ$CDM and EDE with these data finding that while they can constrain $Λ$CDM very tightly, EDE opens up the parameter space significantly and allows $H_0 > 72$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$. We combine these data with measurements from ACT + Planck TT650TEEE CMB primary anisotropy and galaxy baryon acoustic oscillations, and find that overall, EDE fits these data better than $Λ$CDM at $\approx 2σ$. However, the fit to specifically the sound-horizon-independent measurements is worse for EDE than $Λ$CDM. We assess this increase in $χ^2$ coming from the sound-horizon-independent measurements and find that the best-fit model is still consistent with a random statistical fluctuation even with $H_0$ values around $72$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$. We conclude that these specific sound-horizon-independent data cannot rule out the possibility of a miscalibration of the size of the sound horizon, but leave open the possibility that other current or future sound-horizon-independent data sets could rule out such a miscalibration.