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Reconstructing the Type Ia Supernova Absolute Magnitude with Two-Probe Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-05-20 v2

Abstract

We apply two variants of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) to reconstruct the Type~Ia supernova absolute magnitude MB(z)M_B(z) from joint BAO and supernova data under four cosmological models (Λ\LambdaCDM, CPL, GEDE, Λs\Lambda_sCDM) and two DESI~DR2 fiducial sets. A heteroscedastic single-network method tested across four constraint configurations establishes that the Etherington distance duality relation is a more fundamental constraint than cosmological model priors, reducing internal inconsistencies by up to an order of magnitude. Under full constraints all models recover MB19.3M_B \approx -19.3~mag with biases below 0.05~mag. A Fisher information-weighted two-network variant trains independent networks on BAO and SN data, providing clean probe separation; it finds no significant pointwise MBM_B evolution in z[0.3,1.5]z \in [0.3, 1.5], but reveals a systematic separation of redshift-binned MBM_B distributions. The heteroscedastic method identifies a persistent 22--3σ3\sigma residual at z0.4z \sim 0.4--0.50.5 that is consistent across all four models and both fiducials, implying the same underlying tension. While the origin of this feature remains ambiguous, its model-independence and cross-method consistency warrant further investigation with forthcoming data.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2603.17184,
  title  = {Reconstructing the Type Ia Supernova Absolute Magnitude with Two-Probe Physics-Informed Neural Networks},
  author = {Denitsa Staicova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17184},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

16 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, final published version

R2 v1 2026-07-01T11:25:16.833Z