Abstract
The increasing tension between the different local direct measurements of the Hubble expansion rate and that inferred from the cosmic microwave background observation by the -cold-dark-matter model could be a smoking gun of new physics, if not caused by either observational systematics or local bias. We generalize previous investigation on the local bias from a local void by globally fitting the Pantheon sample over all parameters in the radial profile function of a local void described by an inhomogeneous but isotropic Lemaître-Tolman-Bondi metric with a cosmological constant. Our conclusion strengthens the previous studies that the current tension on Hubble constant cannot be saved by a local void alone.
- Received 22 December 2020
- Revised 17 April 2021
- Accepted 24 May 2021
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.123539
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