An effective $\boldsymbolΛ$-Szekeres modelling of the local Universe with Cosmicflows-4

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Main Authors: Galoppo, Marco, Giani, Leonardo, Hills, Morag, Valade, Aurélien
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author Galoppo, Marco
Giani, Leonardo
Hills, Morag
Valade, Aurélien
author_facet Galoppo, Marco
Giani, Leonardo
Hills, Morag
Valade, Aurélien
contents We develop an effective description of the local cosmic environment, namely, for redshift $z \lesssim 0.1$, to quantify the bias induced by local structure on cosmological observables. Our approach models the metric of the nearby Universe as a superposition of multi-structured $Λ$-Szekeres patches, calibrated against the HAMLET peculiar velocity and density field reconstructions of Cosmicflows-4. From this framework we compute the fully inhomogeneous and anisotropic quasilocal expansion field predicted by our model, and use it to assess the impact of local structure on estimates of $H_0$. For this purpose we analyse low-redshift Type Ia supernovae from the Pantheon+ catalogue. We find that accounting for the local structure increases the Hubble tension, yielding a shift in the best-fit value of the Hubble constant of order $ΔH_0 \approx 0.5\ \mathrm{km\,s^{-1}Mpc^{-1}}$.
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spellingShingle An effective $\boldsymbolΛ$-Szekeres modelling of the local Universe with Cosmicflows-4
Galoppo, Marco
Giani, Leonardo
Hills, Morag
Valade, Aurélien
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We develop an effective description of the local cosmic environment, namely, for redshift $z \lesssim 0.1$, to quantify the bias induced by local structure on cosmological observables. Our approach models the metric of the nearby Universe as a superposition of multi-structured $Λ$-Szekeres patches, calibrated against the HAMLET peculiar velocity and density field reconstructions of Cosmicflows-4. From this framework we compute the fully inhomogeneous and anisotropic quasilocal expansion field predicted by our model, and use it to assess the impact of local structure on estimates of $H_0$. For this purpose we analyse low-redshift Type Ia supernovae from the Pantheon+ catalogue. We find that accounting for the local structure increases the Hubble tension, yielding a shift in the best-fit value of the Hubble constant of order $ΔH_0 \approx 0.5\ \mathrm{km\,s^{-1}Mpc^{-1}}$.
title An effective $\boldsymbolΛ$-Szekeres modelling of the local Universe with Cosmicflows-4
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16591