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Title: | On the robustness of the constancy of the supernova absolute magnitude : nonparametric reconstruction & Bayesian approaches |
Authors: | Benisty, David Mifsud, Jurgen Said, Jackson Staicova, Denitsa |
Keywords: | Gravitation Cosmology -- Observations Dark energy (Astronomy) Astrophysics -- Mathematical models Cosmological constants Astrophysics -- Data processing Machine learning |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Citation: | Benisty, D., Mifsud, J., Said, J. L., & Staicova, D. (2023). On the robustness of the constancy of the Supernova absolute magnitude: non-parametric reconstruction & Bayesian approaches. Physics of the Dark Universe, 39, 101160. |
Abstract: | In this work, we test the robustness of the constancy of the Supernova absolute magnitude MB using Non-parametric Reconstruction Techniques (NRT). We isolate the luminosity distance parameter dL(z) from the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) data set and cancel the expansion part from the observed distance modulus µ(z). Consequently, the degeneracy between the absolute magnitude and the Hubble constant H0, is replaced by a degeneracy between MB and the sound horizon at drag epoch rd. When imposing the rd value, this yields the MB(z) = MB +δMB(z) value from NRT. We perform the respective reconstructions using the model independent Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique and Gaussian processes (GP) regression. For the ANN we infer MB = −19.22 ± 0.20, and for the GP we get MB = −19.25 ± 0.39 as a mean for the full distribution when using the sound horizon from late time measurements. These estimations provide a 1 σ possibility of a nuisance parameter presence δMB(z) at higher redshifts. We also tested different known nuisance models with the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique which showed a strong preference for the constant model, but it was not possible not single out a best fit nuisance model. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/121145 |
ISSN: | 22126864 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - InsSSA |
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