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First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Constraints on Cosmological Parameters
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_0w_a CDM model, and combining probes from SN Ia, CMB and baryon acoustic oscillations, we find w_0 = -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).
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© 2019 The American Astronomical Society. Received 2018 November 8; revised 2019 January 24; accepted 2019 February 6; published 2019 February 21. 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, Fundação 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 Inovação, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey. The Collaborating Institutions are Argonne National Laboratory, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Cambridge, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas-Madrid, the University of Chicago, University College London, the DES-Brazil Consortium, the University of Edinburgh, the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (IEEC/CSIC), the Institut de Física d'Altes Energies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München and the associated Excellence Cluster Universe, the University of Michigan, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, the University of Nottingham, The Ohio State University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Portsmouth, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, the University of Sussex, Texas A&M University, and the OzDES Membership Consortium. Based in part on observations at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. 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, 306478, and 615929. We acknowledge support from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), through project No. CE110001020, and the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciênciae Tecnologia (INCT) e-Universe (CNPq grant 465376/2014-2). 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. This Letter makes use of observations taken using the Anglo-Australian Telescope under programs ATAC A/2013B/12 and NOAO 2013B-0317; the Gemini Observatory under programs NOAO 2013A-0373/GS-2013B-Q-45, NOAO 2015B-0197/GS-2015B-Q-7, and GS-2015B-Q-8; the Gran Telescopio Canarias under programs GTC77-13B, GTC70-14B, and GTC101-15B; the Keck Observatory under programs U063-2013B, U021-2014B, U048-2015B, U038-2016A; the Magellan Observatory under programs CN2015B-89; the MMT under 2014c-SAO-4, 2015a-SAO-12, 2015c-SAO-21; the South African Large Telescope under programs 2013-1-RSA_OTH-023, 2013-2-RSA_OTH-018, 2014-1-RSA_OTH-016, 2014-2-SCI-070, 2015-1-SCI-063, and 2015-2-SCI-061; and the Very Large Telescope under programs ESO 093.A-0749(A), 094.A-0310(B), 095.A-0316(A), 096.A-0536(A), 095.D-0797(A).Attached Files
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Funding
- Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- University of Chicago
- Ohio State University
- Texas A&M University
- Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP)
- Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
- Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Argonne National Laboratory
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- University of Cambridge
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
- University College London
- DES-Brazil Consortium
- University of Edinburgh
- ETH Zurich
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (IEEC/CSIC)
- Institut de Física d'Altes Energies
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
- University of Michigan
- National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)
- University of Nottingham
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Portsmouth
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- Stanford University
- University of Sussex
- OzDES Membership Consortium
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)
- NSF
- AST-1138766
- NSF
- AST-1536171
- Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO)
- AYA2015-71825
- Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO)
- ESP2015-66861
- Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO)
- FPA2015-68048
- Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa
- SEV-2016-0588
- Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa
- SEV-2016-0597
- Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO)
- MDM-2015-0509
- European Regional Development Fund
- Generalitat de Catalunya
- European Research Council (ERC)
- 240672
- European Research Council (ERC)
- 291329
- European Research Council (ERC)
- 306478
- European Research Council (ERC)
- 615929
- Australian Research Council
- CE110001020
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
- 465376/2014-2
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-AC02-07CH11359
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