First cosmological results using Type Ia supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Measurement of the Hubble constant

E. MacAulay; R. C. Nichol; D. Bacon; D. Brout; T. M. Davis; B. Zhang; B. A. Bassett; D. Scolnic; A. Möller; C. B. D'Andrea; S. R. Hinton; R. Kessler; A. G. Kim; J. Lasker; C. Lidman; M. Sako; M. Smith; M. Sullivan; T. M.C. Abbott; S. Allam; J. Annis; J. Asorey; S. Avila; K. Bechtol; D. Brooks; P. Brown; D. L. Burke; J. Calcino; A. Carnero Rosell; D. Carollo; M. Carrasco Kind; J. Carretero; F. J. Castander; T. Collett; M. Crocce; C. E. Cunha; L. N. Da Costa; C. Davis; J. De Vicente; H. T. Diehl; P. Doel; A. Drlica-Wagner; T. F. Eifler; J. Estrada; A. E. Evrard; A. V. Filippenko; D. A. Finley; B. Flaugher; R. J. Foley; P. Fosalba; J. Frieman; L. Galbany; J. García-Bellido; E. Gaztanaga; K. Glazebrook; S. González-Gaitán; D. Gruen; R. A. Gruendl; J. Gschwend; G. Gutierrez; W. G. Hartley; D. L. Hollowood; K. Honscheid; J. K. Hoormann; B. Hoyle; D. Huterer; B. Jain; D. J. James; T. Jeltema; E. Kasai; E. Krause; K. Kuehn; N. Kuropatkin; O. Lahav; G. F. Lewis; T. S. Li; M. Lima; H. Lin; M. A.G. Maia; J. L. Marshall; P. Martini; R. Miquel; P. Nugent; A. Palmese; Y. C. Pan; A. A. Plazas; A. K. Romer; A. Roodman; E. Sanchez; V. Scarpine; R. Schindler; M. Schubnell; S. Serrano; I. Sevilla-Noarbe; R. Sharp; M. Soares-Santos; F. Sobreira; N. E. Sommer; E. Suchyta; E. Swann; M. E.C. Swanson; G. Tarle; D. Thomas; R. C. Thomas; B. E. Tucker; S. A. Uddin; V. Vikram; A. R. Walker; P. Wiseman

doi:10.1093/mnras/stz978

First cosmological results using Type Ia supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Measurement of the Hubble constant

E. MacAulay, R. C. Nichol, D. Bacon, D. Brout, T. M. Davis, B. Zhang, B. A. Bassett, D. Scolnic, A. Möller, C. B. D'Andrea, S. R. Hinton, R. Kessler, A. G. Kim, J. Lasker, C. Lidman, M. Sako, M. Smith, M. Sullivan, T. M.C. Abbott, S. AllamJ. Annis, J. Asorey, S. Avila, K. Bechtol, D. Brooks, P. Brown, D. L. Burke, J. Calcino, A. Carnero Rosell, D. Carollo, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, F. J. Castander, T. Collett, M. Crocce, C. E. Cunha, L. N. Da Costa, C. Davis, J. De Vicente, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, A. Drlica-Wagner, T. F. Eifler, J. Estrada, A. E. Evrard, A. V. Filippenko, D. A. Finley, B. Flaugher, R. J. Foley, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, L. Galbany, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, K. Glazebrook, S. González-Gaitán, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez, W. G. Hartley, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, J. K. Hoormann, B. Hoyle, D. Huterer, B. Jain, D. J. James, T. Jeltema, E. Kasai, E. Krause, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, O. Lahav, G. F. Lewis, T. S. Li, M. Lima, H. Lin, M. A.G. Maia, J. L. Marshall, P. Martini, R. Miquel, P. Nugent, A. Palmese, Y. C. Pan, A. A. Plazas, A. K. Romer, A. Roodman, E. Sanchez, V. Scarpine, R. Schindler, M. Schubnell, S. Serrano, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, R. Sharp, M. Soares-Santos, F. Sobreira, N. E. Sommer, E. Suchyta, E. Swann, M. E.C. Swanson, G. Tarle, D. Thomas, R. C. Thomas, B. E. Tucker, S. A. Uddin, V. Vikram, A. R. Walker, P. Wiseman

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Abstract

We present 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 ofBaryon 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 = 67.8 1.3 km s^-1 Mpc^-1 (statistical and systematic uncertainties, 68 per cent confidence). Our measurement makes minimal assumptions about the underlying cosmological model, and our analysis was blinded to reduce confirmation bias. We examine possible systematic uncertainties and all are below the statistical uncertainties. Our H0 value is consistent with estimates derived from the Cosmic Microwave Background assuming a ΛCDM universe.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2184-2196
Number of pages	13
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	486
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz978
State	Published - Jun 1 2019

Funding

AVF is grateful for financial assistance from NSF grant AST-1211916, the Christopher R. Redlich Fund, the TABASGO Foundation, and the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science (U.C. Berkeley). The DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers AST-1138766 and AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MINECO under grants AYA2015-71825, ESP2015-66861, FPA2015-68048, SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, and MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. IFAE is partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) including ERC grant agreements 240672, 291329, and 306478. We acknowledge support from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAAS-TRO), through project number CE110001020, and the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) e-Universe (CNPq grant 465376/2014-2). Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University, the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, Fundac¸ão Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovac¸ão, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey. The UCSC team is supported in part by NASA grants 14-WPS14-0048, NNG16PJ34G, NNG17PX03C, NSF grants AST-1518052 and AST-1815935, the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and by fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to RJF. EM, RCN, and DB acknowledge funding from STFC grant ST/N000668/1. TC acknowledges the University of Portsmouth for a Dennis Sciama Fellowship. DS is supported by NASA through Hubble Fellowship grant HST-HF2-51383.001 awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., for NASA, under contract NAS 5-26555. We acknowledge funding from ERC Grant 615929. This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes.

Funders	Funder number
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics
CAAS-TRO	CE110001020
Christopher R. Redlich Fund
Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey
European Union’s Seventh Framework Program
FP7/2007
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC	DE-AC02-07CH11359
INCT
Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago
Ministry of Science and Education of Spain
Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University
National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
TABASGO Foundation
U.S. National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation	AST-1815935, 1138766, AST-1138766, AST-1211916, 240672, 615929, 306478, 1518052, 1815935, 291329, AST-1536171, AST-1518052
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
National Aeronautics and Space Administration	NNG17PX03C, 14-WPS14-0048, HST-HF2-51383.001, NNG16PJ34G
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Office of Science
High Energy Physics
University of Portsmouth
Higher Education Funding Council for England
Space Telescope Science Institute	NAS 5-26555
Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Ohio State University
Heising-Simons Foundation
Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia Midas
Science and Technology Facilities Council	ST/N000668/1
European Commission
European Research Council
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Generalitat de Catalunya
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad	SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, ESP2015-66861, MDM-2015-0509, FPA2015-68048, AYA2015-71825
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico	465376/2014-2
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia
European Regional Development Fund

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cosmological parameters
cosmology: observations
distance scale.

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MacAulay, E., Nichol, R. C., Bacon, D., Brout, D., Davis, T. M., Zhang, B., Bassett, B. A., Scolnic, D., Möller, A., D'Andrea, C. B., Hinton, S. R., Kessler, R., Kim, A. G., Lasker, J., Lidman, C., Sako, M., Smith, M., Sullivan, M., Abbott, T. M. C., ... Wiseman, P. (2019). First cosmological results using Type Ia supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Measurement of the Hubble constant. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(2), 2184-2196. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz978

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