A 5% measurement of the Hubble constant from Type II supernovae

Abstract

The most stringent local measurement of the Hubble-Lemaître constant from Cepheid-calibrated Type Ia supernovae (SNe~Ia) differs from the value inferred via the cosmic microwave background radiation ({\it Planck}$+\Lambda$CDM) by $\sim 5\sigma$. This so-called "Hubble tension" has been confirmed by other independent methods, and thus does not appear to be a possible consequence of systematic errors. Here, we continue upon our prior work of using Type II supernovae to provide another, largely-independent method to measure the Hubble-Lemaître constant. From 13 SNe~II with geometric, Cepheid, or tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) host-galaxy distance measurements, we derive H${}_0=75.4_{-3.7}^{+3.8}$\,km\,s${}^{-1}$\,Mpc${}^{-1}$ (statistical errors only), consistent with the local measurement but in disagreement by $\sim 2.0\sigma$ with the {\it Planck}$+\Lambda$CDM value. Using only Cepheids ($N=7$), we find H${}_0=77.6_{-4.8}^{+5.2}$\,km\,s${}^{-1}$\,Mpc${}^{-1}$, while using only TRGB ($N=5$), we derive H${}_0=73.1_{-5.3}^{+5.7}$\,km\,s${}^{-1}$\,Mpc${}^{-1}$. Via 13 variants of our dataset, we derive a systematic uncertainty estimate of 1.5\,km\,s${}^{-1}$\,Mpc${}^{-1}$. The median value derived from these variants differs by just 0.3\,km\,s${}^{-1}$\,Mpc${}^{-1}$ from that produced by our fiducial model. Because we only replace SNe~Ia with SNe~II -- and we do not find statistically significant difference between the Cepheid and TRGB H${}_0$ measurements -- our work reveals no indication that SNe~Ia or Cepheids could be the sources of the "H${}_0$ tension." We caution, however, that our conclusions rest upon a modest calibrator sample; as this sample grows in the future, our results should be verified.

10 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication by MNRAS. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2006.03412

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