Weekly seminars

First cosmology results from BAO in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

par Seshadri Nadathur (University of Portsmouth)

Europe/Paris
Petit Amphi (LAPTh)

Petit Amphi

LAPTh

9, chemin de Bellevue ANNECY
Description

I will present a summary of the measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the data release 1 (DR1) of the DESI survey and the interesting cosmological results derived from them. We use over 6 million extragalactic objects to measure BAO and use this to determine the expansion rate of the Universe over the last 11 billion years, in seven redshift bins in the range 0.1<z<4.2. In just one year, DESI has 3x more redshifts than the previous best survey, and improved the BAO precision. Within a flat Lambda cold dark matter (LCDM) background model, DESI results are consistent with those from the CMB, and give a precision of 1% or better on the Hubble constant H_0. We derive an upper limit on the sum of the neutrino masses of M_nu < 0.072 eV (95% confidence): I will explain how this limit depends on priors and assumptions about the background expansion. But most interestingly, we find tentative evidence for a time varying dark energy, with the combination of DESI BAO, CMB and type Ia supernovae rejecting a cosmological constant with significances of between 2.5 and 3.9 sigma, depending on the dataset used.