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First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Constraints on Cosmological Parameters

  • T. M.C. Abbott
  • , S. Allam
  • , P. Andersen
  • , C. Angus
  • , J. Asorey
  • , A. Avelino
  • , S. Avila
  • , B. A. Bassett
  • , K. Bechtol
  • , G. M. Bernstein
  • , E. Bertin
  • , D. Brooks
  • , D. Brout
  • , P. Brown
  • , D. L. Burke
  • , J. Calcino
  • , A. Carnero Rosell
  • , D. Carollo
  • , M. Carrasco Kind
  • , J. Carretero
  • R. Casas, F. J. Castander, R. Cawthon, P. Challis, M. Childress, A. Clocchiatti, C. E. Cunha, C. B. D'Andrea, L. N. Da Costa, C. Davis, T. M. Davis, J. De Vicente, D. L. Depoy, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, A. Drlica-Wagner, T. F. Eifler, A. E. Evrard, E. Fernandez, A. V. Filippenko, D. A. Finley, B. Flaugher, R. J. Foley, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, L. Galbany, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, T. Giannantonio, K. Glazebrook, D. A. Goldstein, S. González-Gaitán, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, R. R. Gupta, G. Gutierrez, W. G. Hartley, S. R. Hinton, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, J. K. Hoormann, B. Hoyle, D. J. James, T. Jeltema, M. W.G. Johnson, M. D. Johnson, E. Kasai, S. Kent, R. Kessler, A. G. Kim, R. P. Kirshner, E. Kovacs, E. Krause, R. Kron, K. Kuehn, S. Kuhlmann, N. Kuropatkin, O. Lahav, J. Lasker, G. F. Lewis, T. S. Li, C. Lidman, M. Lima, H. Lin, E. Macaulay, M. A.G. Maia, K. S. Mandel, M. March, J. Marriner, J. L. Marshall, P. Martini, F. Menanteau, C. J. Miller, R. Miquel, V. Miranda, J. J. Mohr, E. Morganson, D. Muthukrishna, A. Möller, E. Neilsen, R. C. Nichol, B. Nord, P. Nugent, R. L.C. Ogando, A. Palmese, Y. C. Pan, A. A. Plazas, M. Pursiainen, A. K. Romer, A. Roodman, E. Rozo, E. S. Rykoff, M. Sako, E. Sanchez, V. Scarpine, R. Schindler, M. Schubnell, D. Scolnic, S. Serrano, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, R. Sharp, M. Smith, M. Soares-Santos, F. Sobreira, N. E. Sommer, H. Spinka, E. Suchyta, M. Sullivan, E. Swann, G. Tarle, D. Thomas, R. C. Thomas, M. A. Troxel, B. E. Tucker, S. A. Uddin, A. R. Walker, W. Wester, P. Wiseman, R. C. Wolf, B. Yanny, B. Zhang, Y. Zhang
  • National Optical Astronomy Observatory
  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  • University of Queensland
  • University of Copenhagen
  • University of Southampton
  • Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
  • Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.
  • University of Portsmouth
  • African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
  • South African Astronomical Observatory
  • Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
  • University College London
  • Texas A&M University
  • Stanford University
  • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  • CIEMAT
  • Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia
  • National Institute for Astrophysics
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia
  • CSIC
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Observatório Nacional
  • Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
  • The University of Chicago
  • University of Arizona
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • University of Cambridge
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Swinburne University of Technology
  • California Institute of Technology
  • University of Lisbon
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
  • Ohio State University
  • Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
  • University of Namibia
  • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Macquarie University
  • The University of Sydney
  • Australian National University
  • Universidade de São Paulo
  • ICREA
  • Excellence Cluster Universe
  • ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics
  • National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)
  • Academia Sinica - Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • University of Sussex
  • Brandeis University
  • Universidade Estadual de Campinas
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Carnegie Institution of Washington

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Abstract

We present the first cosmological parameter constraints using measurements of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN). The analysis uses a subsample of 207 spectroscopically confirmed SNe Ia from the first three years of DES-SN, combined with a low-redshift sample of 122 SNe from the literature. Our "DES-SN3YR" result from these 329 SNe Ia is based on a series of companion analyses and improvements covering SN Ia discovery, spectroscopic selection, photometry, calibration, distance bias corrections, and evaluation of systematic uncertainties. For a flat ΛCDM model we find a matter density Ω m = 0.331 ± 0.038. For a flat wCDM model, and combining our SN Ia constraints with those from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), we find a dark energy equation of state w = -0.978 ± 0.059, and ω m = 0.321 ± 0.018. For a flat w 0 w a CDM model, and combining probes from SN Ia, CMB and baryon acoustic oscillations, we find w0 = -0.885 ± 0.114 and w a = -0.387 ± 0.430. These results are in agreement with a cosmological constant and with previous constraints using SNe Ia (Pantheon, JLA).

Original languageEnglish
Article numberL30
JournalAstrophysical Journal Letters
Volume872
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

Keywords

  • dark energy
  • dark matter

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