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Top arXiv papers from Week 21, 2020

Top arXiv papers from Week 21, 2020

This week’s entry features the return of the Hubble tension, the first discussion in this blog on the lensing anomaly (Alens tension), and for the second time a discussion on cross-correlations between ultra-high energy cosmic rays and large-scale structure (this time done on real data). As a totally random observation, all three papers discussed this week feature authors which already appeared earlier in this blog. Misha Ivanov already featured on Week 7 (#2), Julien Lesgourgues already featured on Week 11 (again #1!), Marc Kamionkowski already featured on Week 16 (#3), Avi Loeb already featured on Week 15 (#3), and Pavel Motloch already featured with another single-author paper on Week 17 (#3). And no, this is a totally random observation and I’m not trying to imply anything about these authors or the quality of their work (you might want to read my welcome post disclaimers once again), but rather you might start to see some interesting patterns regarding the type of works I am interested in. Enjoy!