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Can small-scale baryon inhomogeneities resolve the Hubble tension? An investigation with ACT DR4

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arxiv 2105.03003 v2 pith:RZ7TVHDL submitted 2021-05-06 astro-ph.CO

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Small-scale inhomogeneities in the baryon density around recombination have been proposed as a solution to the tension between local and global determinations of the Hubble constant. These baryon clumping models make distinct predictions for the cosmic microwave background anisotropy power spectra on small angular scales. We use recent data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope to test these predictions. No evidence for baryon clumping is found, assuming a range of parameterizations for time-independent baryon density probability distribution functions. The inferred Hubble constant remains in significant tension with the SH0ES measurement.

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