Cosmological Impact of Redshift-Dependent Type Ia Supernovae Calibration
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| author | Mirpoorian, Seyed Hamidreza Lin, Meng-Xiang Pogosian, Levon |
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| contents | Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) play a central role in constraining the late-time expansion history of the Universe and are directly implicated in current cosmological tensions. Motivated by the possibility of unaccounted redshift-dependent calibration systematics or new physics, we investigate the impact of a phenomenological correction to SNIa magnitudes that scales with cosmic look-back time. We parameterize this effect with a free amplitude and constrain it using a combination of cosmic microwave background, baryon acoustic oscillation, and SNIa data, considering both $Λ$CDM and dynamical dark energy models. Importantly, our parameterization is not intended to serve as a proxy for SNIa progenitor age, as current observations show no significant difference in standardized SNIa brightness between young and old progenitor populations at low redshift. We find no evidence for a redshift-dependent calibration effect when fitting uncalibrated SNIa data, and its inclusion has a negligible impact on cosmological parameters within $Λ$CDM, nor does it qualitatively change the inferred dynamics of evolving dark energy. When incorporating a prior on the SNIa absolute magnitude from SH0ES, a nonzero calibration parameter is weakly preferred within $Λ$CDM. Interestingly, with dynamical dark energy, the preference of a nonzero calibration parameter increases to $4.3σ$, and it can accommodate both the distance ladder and early-Universe constraints, reducing the Hubble tension to $1.5σ$, with the best-fit model effectively corresponding to a constant equation of state with $w < -1$. Overall, our results indicate that redshift-dependent SNIa calibration effects, as parameterized here, are not supported by current data within $Λ$CDM, but can play a role in reconciling cosmological datasets when combined with extensions to the late-time expansion history. |
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| spellingShingle | Cosmological Impact of Redshift-Dependent Type Ia Supernovae Calibration Mirpoorian, Seyed Hamidreza Lin, Meng-Xiang Pogosian, Levon Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) play a central role in constraining the late-time expansion history of the Universe and are directly implicated in current cosmological tensions. Motivated by the possibility of unaccounted redshift-dependent calibration systematics or new physics, we investigate the impact of a phenomenological correction to SNIa magnitudes that scales with cosmic look-back time. We parameterize this effect with a free amplitude and constrain it using a combination of cosmic microwave background, baryon acoustic oscillation, and SNIa data, considering both $Λ$CDM and dynamical dark energy models. Importantly, our parameterization is not intended to serve as a proxy for SNIa progenitor age, as current observations show no significant difference in standardized SNIa brightness between young and old progenitor populations at low redshift. We find no evidence for a redshift-dependent calibration effect when fitting uncalibrated SNIa data, and its inclusion has a negligible impact on cosmological parameters within $Λ$CDM, nor does it qualitatively change the inferred dynamics of evolving dark energy. When incorporating a prior on the SNIa absolute magnitude from SH0ES, a nonzero calibration parameter is weakly preferred within $Λ$CDM. Interestingly, with dynamical dark energy, the preference of a nonzero calibration parameter increases to $4.3σ$, and it can accommodate both the distance ladder and early-Universe constraints, reducing the Hubble tension to $1.5σ$, with the best-fit model effectively corresponding to a constant equation of state with $w < -1$. Overall, our results indicate that redshift-dependent SNIa calibration effects, as parameterized here, are not supported by current data within $Λ$CDM, but can play a role in reconciling cosmological datasets when combined with extensions to the late-time expansion history. |
| title | Cosmological Impact of Redshift-Dependent Type Ia Supernovae Calibration |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24761 |