Skipping the rungs! Calibrating distance indicators through their clustering with galaxies

arXiv:2607.06567 · astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-07-07 · Read on arXiv

Madeline L. Cross-Parkin, Leonardo Giani, Cullan Howlett, Tamara M. Davis

astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-07-07

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Prepared for submission to Physical Review

Project page: https://samreay.github.io/ChainConsumer

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Calibration — 20× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Clustering — 20× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Angular cross-correlation — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hubble Tension — 6× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Degeneracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fisher Information — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cosmic Microwave Background — 1× in this paper
• Homogeneity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Systematic Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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