First cosmological results using Type Ia supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: measurement of the Hubble constant
- Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, P. O. Box 2450, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), E-28040 Madrid, Spain; Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20921-400, Brazil
- INAF, Astrophysical Observatory of Turin, I-10025 Pino Torinese, Italy
- Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 West Clark St, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
- Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), E-08034 Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC), Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
We propose an improved measurement of the Hubble Constant (H0) using the 'inverse distance ladder' method, which adds the information from 207 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) at redshift 0.018 < z < 0.85 to existing distance measurements of 122 low redshift (z < 0.07) SNe Ia (Low-z) and measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs). Whereas traditional measurements of H0 with SNe Ia use a distance ladder of parallax and Cepheid variable stars, the inverse distance ladder relies on absolute distance measurements from the BAOs to calibrate the intrinsic magnitude of the SNe Ia. We find H0 = 67.77 ± 1.3 km s-1 Mpc-1 (statistical and systematic uncertainties, 68% confidence). In this work, our measurement makes minimal assumptions about the underlying cosmological model, and our analysis was blinded to reduce confirmation bias. We investigate possible systematic uncertainties and all are presently below the statistical uncertainties. Our H0 value is consistent with estimates derived from the Cosmic Microwave Background assuming a ΔCDM universe (Planck Collaboration et al. 2018).
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
- Contributing Organization:
- DES Collaboration
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359; SC0007859; AC05-00OR22725; AC02-05CH11231; SC0019193
- OSTI ID:
- 1510042
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1531220; OSTI ID: 1561925; OSTI ID: 1646609; OSTI ID: 1725789
- Report Number(s):
- arXiv:1811.02376; FERMILAB-PUB-19-045-AE-CD; oai:inspirehep.net:1702373
- Journal Information:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 486, Issue 2; ISSN 0035-8711
- Publisher:
- Royal Astronomical SocietyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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