New constraints on anisotropic expansion from supernovae type Ia
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Author(s)
Rahman, W
Trotta, R
Boruah, SS
Hudson, MJ
Dyk, DA van
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We re-examine the contentious question of constraints on anisotropic expansion from Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) in the light of a novel determination of peculiar velocities, which are crucial to test isotropy with SNe out to distances ⪝200h-1 Mpc. We re-analyse the Joint Light-Curve Analysis (JLA) Supernovae (SNe) data, improving on previous treatments of peculiar velocity corrections and their uncertainties (both statistical and systematic) by adopting state-of-the-art flow models constrained independently via the 2M++ galaxy redshift compilation. We also introduce a novel procedure to account for colour-based selection effects, and adjust the redshift of low-z SNe self-consistently in the light of our improved peculiar velocity model. We adopt the Bayesian hierarchical model BAHAMAS to constrain a dipole in the distance modulus in the context of the Lambda cold dark matter (ΛCDM) model and the deceleration parameter in a phenomenological Cosmographic expansion. We do not find any evidence for anisotropic expansion, and place a tight upper bound on the amplitude of a dipole, |Dμ| < 5.93 × 10−4 (95 per cent credible interval) in a ΛCDM setting, and |Dq0|<6.29×10−2 in the Cosmographic expansion approach. Using Bayesian model comparison, we obtain posterior odds in excess of 900:1 (640:1) against a constant-in-redshift dipole for ΛCDM (the Cosmographic expansion). In the isotropic case, an accelerating universe is favoured with odds of ∼1100:1 with respect to a decelerating one.
Date Issued
2022-07
Date Acceptance
2022-04-22
Citation
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022, 514 (1), pp.139-163
ISSN
0035-8711
Publisher
Royal Astronomical Society
Start Page
139
End Page
163
Journal / Book Title
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume
514
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Identifier
http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12497v2
Subjects
astro-ph.CO
astro-ph.CO
Notes
25 Pages, 14 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2022-05-03