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arxiv 2008.08084 v3 pith:IHLBTTXE submitted 2020-08-18 astro-ph.CO astro-ph.GAastro-ph.IMgr-qchep-ph

Determining the Hubble Constant without the Sound Horizon: Measurements from Galaxy Surveys

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Two sources of geometric information are encoded in the galaxy power spectrum: the sound horizon at recombination and the horizon at matter-radiation equality. Analyzing the BOSS DR12 galaxy power spectra using perturbation theory with $\Omega_m$ priors from Pantheon supernovae but no priors on $\Omega_b$, we obtain constraints on $H_0$ from the second scale, finding $H_0 = 65.1^{+3.0}_{-5.4}\,\mathrm{km}\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$; this differs from the best-fit of SH0ES at 95\% confidence. Similar results are obtained if $\Omega_m$ is constrained from uncalibrated BAO: $H_0 = 65.6^{+3.4}_{-5.5}\,\mathrm{km}\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$. Adding the analogous lensing results from Baxter \& Sherwin 2020, the posterior shifts to $70.6^{+3.7}_{-5.0}\,\mathrm{km}\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$. Using mock data, Fisher analyses, and scale-cuts, we demonstrate that our constraints do not receive significant information from the sound horizon scale. Since many models resolve the $H_0$ controversy by adding new physics to alter the sound horizon, our measurements are a consistency test for standard cosmology before recombination. A simple forecast indicates that such constraints could reach $\sigma_{H_0} \simeq 1.6\,\mathrm{km}\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$ in the era of Euclid.

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