First cosmology results using Type IA supernovae from the dark energy survey: effects of chromatic corrections to supernova photometry on measurements of cosmological parameters Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Abstract Calibration uncertainties have been the leading systematic uncertainty in recent analyses using Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa) to measure cosmological parameters. To improve the calibration, we present the application of spectral energy distribution-dependent chromatic corrections to the SN light-curve photometry from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). These corrections depend on the combined atmospheric and instrumental transmission function for each exposure, and they affect photometry at the 0.01mag (1percent) level, comparable to systematic uncertainties in calibration and photometry. Fitting our combined DES and low-z SNIa sample with baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) priors for the cosmological parameters m (the fraction of the critical density of the universe comprised of matter) and w (the dark energy equation of state parameter), we compare those parameters before and after applying the corrections. We find the change in w and m due to not including chromatic corrections is 0.002 and 0.000, respectively, for the DES-SN3YR sample with BAO and CMB priors, consistent with a larger DES-SN3YR-like simulation, which has a w-change of 0.0005 with an uncertainty of 0.008 and an m change of 0.000 with an uncertainty of 0.002. However, when considering samples on individual CCDs we find large redshift-dependent biases (0.02 in distance modulus) for SN distances.

published proceedings

  • MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

altmetric score

  • 13.612

author list (cited authors)

  • Lasker, J., Kessler, R., Scolnic, D., Brout, D., Burke, D. L., D'Andrea, C. B., ... Walker, A. R.

citation count

  • 16

complete list of authors

  • Lasker, J||Kessler, R||Scolnic, D||Brout, D||Burke, DL||D'Andrea, CB||Davis, TM||Hinton, SR||Kim, AG||Li, TS||Lidman, C||Macaulay, E||Moller, A||Rykoff, ES||Sako, M||Smith, M||Sullivan, M||Swann, E||Tucker, E||Wester, W||Bassett, BA||Abbott, TMC||Allam, S||Annis, J||Avila, S||Bechtol, K||Bertin, E||Brooks, D||Carnero Rosell, A||Carrasco Kind, M||Carretero, J||Castander, FJ||Calcino, J||Carollo, D||da Costa, N||Davis, C||De Vicente, J||Diehl, HT||Doel, P||Drlica-Wagner, A||Flaugher, B||Frieman, J||Garcia-Bellido, J||Gaztanaga, E||Gruen, D||Gruendl, RA||Gschwend, J||Gutierrez, G||Hollowood, DL||Honscheid, K||Hoormann, JK||James, DJ||Kent, S||Krause, E||Kron, R||Kuehn, K||Kuropatkin, N||Lima, M||Maia, MAG||Marshall, JL||Martini, P||Menanteau, F||Miller, CJ||Miquel, R||Plazas, AA||Sanchez, E||Scarpine, V||Sevilla-Noarbe, I||Smith, RC||Soares-Santos, M||Sobreira, F||Suchyta, E||Swanson, MEC||Tarle, G||Tucker, DL||Walker, AR

publication date

  • June 2019