Published May 3, 2019
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Cosmological Constraints from Multiple Probes in the Dark Energy Survey
Abstract
The combination of multiple observational probes has long been advocated as a powerful technique to constrain cosmological parameters, in particular dark energy. The Dark Energy Survey has measured 207 spectroscopically confirmed type Ia supernova light curves, the baryon acoustic oscillation feature, weak gravitational lensing, and galaxy clustering. Here we present combined results from these probes, deriving constraints on the equation of state, w, of dark energy and its energy density in the Universe. Independently of other experiments, such as those that measure the cosmic microwave background, the probes from this single photometric survey rule out a Universe with no dark energy, finding w = −0.80^(+0.09)_(−0.11). The geometry is shown to be consistent with a spatially flat Universe, and we obtain a constraint on the baryon density of Ω_b = 0.069^(+0.009)_(−0.012) that is independent of early Universe measurements. These results demonstrate the potential power of large multiprobe photometric surveys and pave the way for order of magnitude advances in our constraints on properties of dark energy and cosmology over the next decade.
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© 2019 American Physical Society. Received 8 November 2018; revised manuscript received 19 February 2019; published 1 May 2019. Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the DOE and NSF (USA), MEC/MICINN/MINECO (Spain), STFC (UK), HEFCE (United Kingdom), NCSA (UIUC), KICP (U. Chicago), CCAPP (Ohio State), MIFPA (Texas A&M), CNPQ, FAPERJ, FINEP (Brazil), DFG (Germany), and the Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey. The Collaborating Institutions are Argonne Lab, UC Santa Cruz, University of Cambridge, CIEMAT-Madrid, University of Chicago, University College London, DES-Brazil Consortium, University of Edinburgh, ETH Zürich, Fermilab, University of Illinois, ICE (IEEC-CSIC), IFAE Barcelona, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, LMU München and the associated Excellence Cluster Universe, University of Michigan, NOAO, University of Nottingham, Ohio State University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Portsmouth, SLAC National Lab, Stanford University, 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 NSF under Grants No. AST-1138766 and No. AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MINECO under Grants No. AYA2015-71825, No. ESP2015-66861, No. FPA2015-68048, No. SEV-2016-0588, No. SEV-2016-0597, and No. 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 Grants No. 240672, No. 291329, and No. 306478. 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 Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) e-Universe (CNPq Grant No. 465376/2014-2). This Letter 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. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This Letter also used resources on the CCAPP condo of the Ruby Cluster at the Ohio Supercomputing Center [81]. Plots in this Letter were produced partly with Matplotlib [82], and it has been prepared using NASA's Astrophysics Data System Bibliographic Services.Attached Files
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- Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC)
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCINN)
- 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
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
- Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP)
- 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 Zürich
- Fermilab
- Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (IEEC/CSIC)
- Institut de Física d'Altes Energies
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
- Excellence Cluster Universe
- 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)
- AST-1138766
- NSF
- AST-1536171
- NSF
- AYA2015-71825
- Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO)
- ESP2015-66861
- Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO)
- FPA2015-68048
- Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO)
- SEV-2016-0588
- Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa
- SEV-2016-0597
- Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa
- MDM-2015-0509
- Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia María de Maeztu
- European Regional Development Funds (ERDF)
- European Union
- Generalitat de Catalunya
- 240672
- European Research Council (ERC)
- 291329
- European Research Council (ERC)
- 306478
- European Research Council (ERC)
- CE110001020
- Australian Research Council
- 465376/2014-2
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
- DE-AC02-07CH11359
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-AC02-05CH11231
- Department of Energy (DOE)
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