1. Cosmological Constraints from Multiple Probes in the Dark Energy Survey.
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Abbott TMC, Alarcon A, Allam S, Andersen P, Andrade-Oliveira F, Annis J, Asorey J, Avila S, Bacon D, Banik N, Bassett BA, Baxter E, Bechtol K, Becker MR, Bernstein GM, Bertin E, Blazek J, Bridle SL, Brooks D, Brout D, Burke DL, Calcino J, Camacho H, Campos A, Carnero Rosell A, Carollo D, Carrasco Kind M, Carretero J, Castander FJ, Cawthon R, Challis P, Chan KC, Chang C, Childress M, Crocce M, Cunha CE, D'Andrea CB, da Costa LN, Davis C, Davis TM, De Vicente J, DePoy DL, DeRose J, Desai S, Diehl HT, Dietrich JP, Dodelson S, Doel P, Drlica-Wagner A, Eifler TF, Elvin-Poole J, Estrada J, Evrard AE, Fernandez E, Flaugher B, Foley RJ, Fosalba P, Frieman J, Galbany L, García-Bellido J, Gatti M, Gaztanaga E, Gerdes DW, Giannantonio T, Glazebrook K, Goldstein DA, Gruen D, Gruendl RA, Gschwend J, Gutierrez G, Hartley WG, Hinton SR, Hollowood DL, Honscheid K, Hoormann JK, Hoyle B, Huterer D, Jain B, James DJ, Jarvis M, Jeltema T, Kasai E, Kent S, Kessler R, Kim AG, Kokron N, Krause E, Kron R, Kuehn K, Kuropatkin N, Lahav O, Lasker J, Lemos P, Lewis GF, Li TS, Lidman C, Lima M, Lin H, Macaulay E, MacCrann N, Maia MAG, March M, Marriner J, Marshall JL, Martini P, McMahon RG, Melchior P, Menanteau F, Miquel R, Mohr JJ, Morganson E, Muir J, Möller A, Neilsen E, Nichol RC, Nord B, Ogando RLC, Palmese A, Pan YC, Peiris HV, Percival WJ, Plazas AA, Porredon A, Prat J, Romer AK, Roodman A, Rosenfeld R, Ross AJ, Rykoff ES, Samuroff S, Sánchez C, Sanchez E, Scarpine V, Schindler R, Schubnell M, Scolnic D, Secco LF, Serrano S, Sevilla-Noarbe I, Sharp R, Sheldon E, Smith M, Soares-Santos M, Sobreira F, Sommer NE, Swann E, Swanson MEC, Tarle G, Thomas D, Thomas RC, Troxel MA, Tucker BE, Uddin SA, Vielzeuf P, Walker AR, Wang M, Weaverdyck N, Wechsler RH, Weller J, Yanny B, Zhang B, Zhang Y, and Zuntz J
- 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_{-0.11}^{+0.09}. 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_{-0.012}^{+0.009} 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
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