We use the largest sample to date of spectroscopic supernova (SN) Ia distances and redshifts to look for evidence in the Hubble diagram of large-scale outflows caused by local voids suggested to exist at z < 0.15. Our sample combines data from the Pantheon sample with the Foundation survey, and the most recent release of light curves from the Carnegie Supernova Project, to create a sample of 1295 SNe over a redshift range of 0.01 < z < 2.26. We make use of an inhomogeneous and isotropic Lemaitre–Tolman–Bondi metric to model a void in the SN Ia distance–redshift relation. We conclude that the SN luminosity distance–redshift relation is inconsistent at the 4–5 σ confidence level with large local underdensities ( , where the density contrast δ = Δ ρ / ρ ) proposed in some galaxy count studies, and find no evidence of a change in the Hubble constant corresponding to a void with a sharp edge in the redshift range 0.023 < z < 0.15. With an empirical precision of , we conclude that the distance ladder measurement is not affected by local density contrasts, in agreement with a cosmic variance of , predicted from simulations of large-scale structure. Given that uncertainty in the distance ladder value is , this does not affect the Hubble tension. We derive a 5 σ constraint on local density contrasts on scales larger than of . The presence of local structure does not appear to impede the possibility of measuring the Hubble constant to 1% precision.
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Kenworthy, W. D., Scolnic, D., & Riess, A. (2019). The Local Perspective on the Hubble Tension: Local Structure Does Not Impact Measurement of the Hubble Constant. The Astrophysical Journal, 875(2), 145. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0ebf
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