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卡内基哈勃计划:哈勃常数的中红外校准

Carnegie Hubble Program: A Mid-Infrared Calibration of the Hubble Constant

Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore, Victoria Scowcroft, Chris Burns, Andy Monson, S. Eric Persson, Mark Seibert, Jane Rigby

摘要:

利用中红外定标的造父变星距离尺度的基础上,最近的观测在3.6微米与斯皮策太空望远镜,我们已经获得了一个新的,高精度的哈勃常数的校准。我们已经建立了中红外零点的莱维特定律(造父变星周期亮度关系)使用时间平均3.6微米的数据为10个高金属丰度,银河系造父变星具有独立测量的三角函数。我们采用了PL关系的斜率,使用时间平均的3.6 μ m的数据为80个长周期的大麦云(LMC)造父变星落在周期范围0.8 < log(P)< 1.8。我们发现了一个新的红化校正距离LMC的18.477 +/- 0.033(系统)马格。我们重新审视了系统的不确定性H 0,也考虑到新的数据在过去的十年。与新的斯皮策校准相结合,H 0的系统不确定性比哈勃太空望远镜(HST)关键项目获得的H 0的系统不确定性减少了三倍以上。将斯皮策校准应用于重点项目样本,我们发现H 0 = 74.3的值,系统不确定度为+/-2.1(系统)km/s/Mpc,对应于哈勃常数的2.8%系统不确定度。这个结果,结合WMAP 7对宇宙微波背景各向异性的测量,并假设宇宙是平坦的,得到了暗能量的状态方程值,w 0 = -1.09 +/- 0.10。或者,放松对平坦度和相对论性粒子数的限制,并将我们的结果与WMAP 7、Ia型超新星和重子声学振荡的结果相结合,得到w 0 = -1.08 +/- 0.10和N_eff = 4.13 +/- 0.67,这与第四种中微子的存在相一致。

英文摘要:

Using a mid-infrared calibration of the Cepheid distance scale based on recent observations at 3.6 um with the Spitzer Space Telescope, we have obtained a new, high-accuracy calibration of the Hubble constant. We have established the mid-IR zero point of the Leavitt Law (the Cepheid Period-Luminosity relation) using time-averaged 3.6 um data for ten high-metallicity, Milky Way Cepheids having independently-measured trigonometric parallaxes. We have adopted the slope of the PL relation using time-averaged 3.6 um data for 80 long-period Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Cepheids falling in the period range 0.8 < log(P) < 1.8. We find a new reddening-corrected distance to the LMC of 18.477 +/- 0.033 (systematic) mag. We re-examine the systematic uncertainties in H0, also taking into account new data over the past decade. In combination with the new Spitzer calibration, the systematic uncertainty in H0 over that obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Key Project has decreased by over a factor of three. Applying the Spitzer calibration to the Key Project sample, we find a value of H0 = 74.3 with a systematic uncertainty of +/-2.1 (systematic) km/s/Mpc, corresponding to a 2.8% systematic uncertainty in the Hubble constant. This result, in combination with WMAP7 measurements of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies and assuming a flat universe, yields a value of the equation of state for dark energy, w0 = -1.09 +/- 0.10. Alternatively, relaxing the constraints on flatness and the numbers of relativistic species, and combining our results with those of WMAP7, Type Ia supernovae and baryon acoustic oscillations yields w0 = -1.08 +/- 0.10 and a value of N_eff = 4.13 +/- 0.67, mildly consistent with the existence of a fourth neutrino species.

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