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Is MB really a constant?

  • David Benisty

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Abstract

MB is the Supernova absolute magnitude. Ref. [1] isolates the distance ladder dL(z) from the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and from the Type Ia supernova data to determine MB. The degeneracy between the absolute magnitude and the Hubble constant H0 for the supernova data is replaced by a degeneracy between MB and the sound horizon rd. Since the data is for certain redshifts, the Gaussian processes (GP) regression extrapolates the values for the whole redshift range. By canceling the distance ladder, the GP gives MB = −19.25 ± 0.39 as a mean for the full distribution when using the sound horizon from late time measurements. The estimations provide up to 1 σ possibility of a nuisance parameter presence δMB(z) at higher redshifts.

Original languageEnglish
Article number259
JournalProceedings of Science
Volume436
StatePublished - 8 Nov 2023
Externally publishedYes
EventCorfu Summer Institute "22nd Hellenic School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity", CORFU 2022 - Corfu, Greece
Duration: 28 Aug 20221 Oct 2022

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General

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