A BayeSN Distance Ladder: $H_0$ from a consistent modelling of Type Ia supernovae from the optical to the near infrared
| Autor: | Suhail Dhawan, Stephen Thorp, Kaisey S Mandel, Sam M Ward, Gautham Narayan, Saurabh W Jha, Thaisen Chant |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2211.07657 |
| Popis: | The local distance ladder estimate of the Hubble constant ($H_0$) is important in cosmology, given the recent tension with the early universe inference. We estimate $H_0$ from the Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) distance ladder, inferring SN Ia distances with the hierarchical Bayesian SED model, BayeSN. This method has a notable advantage of being able to continuously model the optical and near-infrared (NIR) SN Ia light curves simultaneously. We use two independent distance indicators, Cepheids or the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB), to calibrate a Hubble-flow sample of 67 SNe Ia with optical and NIR data. We estimate $H_0 = 74.82 \pm 0.97$ (stat) $\pm\, 0.84$ (sys) km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$ when using the calibration with Cepheid distances to 37 host galaxies of 41 SNe Ia, and $70.92 \pm 1.14$ (stat) $\pm\,1.49$ (sys) km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$ when using the calibration with TRGB distances to 15 host galaxies of 18 SNe Ia. For both methods, we find a low intrinsic scatter $\sigma_{\rm int} \lesssim 0.1$ mag. We test various selection criteria and do not find significant shifts in the estimate of $H_0$. Simultaneous modelling of the optical and NIR yields up to $\sim$15% reduction in $H_0$ uncertainty compared to the equivalent optical-only cases. With improvements expected in other rungs of the distance ladder, leveraging joint optical-NIR SN Ia data can be critical to reducing the $H_0$ error budget. Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, submitted to MNRAS, minor typos fixed. Comments welcome! |
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