The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: slow supernovae show cosmological time dilation out to z 1.

White, R. M. T.; Davis, T. M.; Lewis, G. F.; Brout, D.; Galbany, L.; Glazebrook, K.; Hinton, S. R.; Lee, J.; Lidman, C.; Möller, A.; Sako, M.; Scolnic, D.; Smith, M.; Sullivan, M.; Sánchez, B. O.; Shah, P.; Vincenzi, M.; Wiseman, P.; Abbott, T. M. C.; Aguena, M.; Allam, S.; Andrade-Oliveira, F.; Asorey, J.; Bacon, D.; Bocquet, S.; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, E.; Burke, D. L.; Carnero Rosell, A.; Carollo, D.; Carretero, J.; da Costa, L. N.; Pereira, M. E. S.; De Vicente, J.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. T.; Everett, S.; Ferrero, I.; Flaugher, B.; Frieman, J.; García-Bellido, J.; Gaztanaga, E.; Giannini, G.; Gruendl, R. A.; Hollowood, D. L.; Honscheid, K.; James, D. J.; Kessler, R.; Kuehn, K.; Lahav, O.; Lee, S.; Lima, M.; Marshall, J. L.; Mena-Fernández, J.; Miquel, R.; Myles, J.; Nichol, R. C.; Ogando, R. L. C.; Palmese, A.; Pieres, A.; Plazas Malagón, A. A.; Romer, A. K.; Sanchez, E.; Sanchez Cid, D.; Schubnell, M.; Suchyta, E.; Tarle, G.; Tucker, B. E.; Walker, A. R.; Weaverdyck, N.; (DES Collaboratio)
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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2024
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71
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We present a precise measurement of cosmological time dilation using the light curves of 1504 Type Ia supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey spanning a redshift range $0.1\lesssim z\lesssim 1.2$. We find that the width of supernova light curves is proportional to $(1+z)$, as expected for time dilation due to the expansion of the Universe. Assuming Type Ia supernovae light curves are emitted with a consistent duration $\Delta t_{\rm em}$, and parametrizing the observed duration as $\Delta t_{\rm obs}=\Delta t_{\rm em}(1+z)^b$, we fit for the form of time dilation using two methods. First, we find that a power of $b \approx 1$ minimizes the flux scatter in stacked subsamples of light curves across different redshifts. Secondly, we fit each target supernova to a stacked light curve (stacking all supernovae with observed bandpasses matching that of the target light curve) and find $b=1.003\pm 0.005$ (stat) $\pm \, 0.010$ (sys). Thanks to the large number of supernovae and large redshift-range of the sample, this analysis gives the most precise measurement of cosmological time dilation to date, ruling out any non-time-dilating cosmological models at very high significance.
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