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The Pantheon+ Analysis: Cosmological Constraints

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-11-16 v2

Abstract

We present constraints on cosmological parameters from the Pantheon+ analysis of 1701 light curves of 1550 distinct Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) ranging in redshift from z=0.001z=0.001 to 2.26. This work features an increased sample size, increased redshift span, and improved treatment of systematic uncertainties in comparison to the original Pantheon analysis and results in a factor of two improvement in cosmological constraining power. For a FlatΛ\LambdaCDM model, we find ΩM=0.334±0.018\Omega_M=0.334\pm0.018 from SNe Ia alone. For a Flatw0w_0CDM model, we measure w0=0.90±0.14w_0=-0.90\pm0.14 from SNe Ia alone, H0=73.5±1.1_0=73.5\pm1.1 km s1^{-1} Mpc1^{-1} when including the Cepheid host distances and covariance (SH0ES), and w0=0.9780.031+0.024w_0=-0.978^{+0.024}_{-0.031} when combining the SN likelihood with constraints from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO); both w0w_0 values are consistent with a cosmological constant. We also present the most precise measurements to date on the evolution of dark energy in a Flatw0waw_0w_aCDM universe, and measure wa=0.12.0+0.9w_a=-0.1^{+0.9}_{-2.0} from Pantheon+ alone, H0=73.3±1.1_0=73.3\pm1.1 km s1^{-1} Mpc1^{-1} when including SH0ES, and wa=0.650.32+0.28w_a=-0.65^{+0.28}_{-0.32} when combining Pantheon+ with CMB and BAO data. Finally, we find that systematic uncertainties in the use of SNe Ia along the distance ladder comprise less than one third of the total uncertainty in the measurement of H0_0 and cannot explain the present "Hubble tension" between local measurements and early-Universe predictions from the cosmological model.

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@article{arxiv.2202.04077,
  title  = {The Pantheon+ Analysis: Cosmological Constraints},
  author = {Dillon Brout and Dan Scolnic and Brodie Popovic and Adam G. Riess and Joe Zuntz and Rick Kessler and Anthony Carr and Tamara M. Davis and Samuel Hinton and David Jones and W. D'Arcy Kenworthy and Erik R. Peterson and Khaled Said and Georgie Taylor and Noor Ali and Patrick Armstrong and Pranav Charvu and Arianna Dwomoh and Antonella Palmese and Helen Qu and Benjamin M. Rose and Christopher W. Stubbs and Maria Vincenzi and Charlotte M. Wood and Peter J. Brown and Rebecca Chen and Ken Chambers and David A. Coulter and Mi Dai and Georgios Dimitriadis and Alexei V. Filippenko and Ryan J. Foley and Saurabh W. Jha and Lisa Kelsey and Robert P. Kirshner and Anais Möller and Jessie Muir and Seshadri Nadathur and Yen-Chen Pan and Armin Rest and Cesar Rojas-Bravo and Masao Sako and Matthew R. Siebert and Mat Smith and Benjamin E. Stahl and Phil Wiseman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.04077},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

34 Pages, 16 Figures, 7 Tables. Published in ApJ. Comments welcome. Papers and data release here: https://pantheonplussh0es.github.io

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