Logo image
Growth-rate measurement with type-Ia supernovae using ZTF survey simulations
Journal article   Open access   Peer reviewed

Growth-rate measurement with type-Ia supernovae using ZTF survey simulations

Bastien Carreres, Julian E. Bautista, Fabrice Feinstein, Dominique Fouchez, Benjamin Racine, Mathew Smith, Mellissa Amenouche, Marie Aubert, Suhail Dhawan, Madeleine Ginolin, …
Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin), v 674, pA197
01 Jun 2023
url
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346173View
Published, Version of Record (VoR) Open

Abstract

Astronomy & Astrophysics Physical Sciences Science & Technology
Measurements of the growth rate of structures at z < 0.1 with peculiar velocity surveys have the potential of testing the validity of general relativity on cosmic scales. In this work, we present growth-rate measurements from realistic simulated sets of type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). We describe our simulation methodology, the light-curve fitting, and peculiar velocity estimation. Using the maximum likelihood method, we derived constraints on fa -8 using only ZTF SN Ia peculiar velocities. We carefully tested the method and we quantified biases due to selection effects (photometric detection, spectroscopic follow-up for typing) on several independent realizations. We simulated the equivalent of 6 years of ZTF data, and considering an unbiased spectroscopically typed sample at z < 0.06, we obtained unbiased estimates of fa -8 with an average uncertainty of 19% precision. We also investigated the information gain in applying bias correction methods. Our results validate our framework, which can be used on real ZTF data.

Metrics

13 Record Views
7 citations in Scopus

Details

InCites Highlights

Data related to this publication, from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool:

Collaboration types
Domestic collaboration
International collaboration
Web of Science research areas
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Logo image