ECH0EZ: Estimating the Hubble constant with ZTF SN Ia DR2
Abstract
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are instrumental for a precise measurement of the Hubble constant (H0) from the local distance ladder, yet the data used hitherto for this purpose are inhomogeneous and subject to severe selection effects. We present the first, preliminary, cosmological analysis of 772 SNe Ia from the Zwicky Transient Facility's second data release: an untargeted single-telescope sample whose volume-limited subset (z<0.06) is largely free of Malmquist bias. We correct the public data for known instrumental and calibration biases and the redshifts for peculiar motions. Using the 42 SH0ES calibrators (their host distances computed from Cepheids and geometric anchors) and a Bayesian hierarchical model of SN Ia standardisation, dust extinction, redshift and calibration uncertainties, we infer H0 = (71.6 ± 1.5) km/s/Mpc after marginalising over deceleration with a flat prior (or (72.3 ± 1.1) km/s/Mpc if a prior on matter density from Pantheon+ is imposed), with the uncertainty dominated by the number of calibrators. We demonstrate robustness to the choice of light-curve and Milky Way dust models and to extensions of the model to include peculiar-velocity correlations, a host-mass step, and two stretch populations. These results are in agreement with previous distance-ladder measurements and 2.7σ (4.1σ) away from the value obtained from Planck data, suggesting that the resolution of the Hubble tension lies outside of SNe Ia---or the distance ladder entirely.
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BibTeX
@misc{karchev2026ech0ez,
title = {{ECH0EZ: Estimating the Hubble constant with ZTF SN Ia DR2}},
author = {Konstantin Karchev and Marco Giunta and Raul Jimenez and Roberto Trotta and Licia Verde},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.36051},
eprint = {2610.36051},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36051},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - ECH0EZ: Estimating the Hubble constant with ZTF SN Ia DR2
AU - Konstantin Karchev
AU - Marco Giunta
AU - Raul Jimenez
AU - Roberto Trotta
AU - Licia Verde
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/26
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.36051
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36051
AB - Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are instrumental for a precise measurement of the Hubble constant (H_0) from the local distance ladder, yet the data used hitherto for this purpose are inhomogeneous and subject to severe selection effects. We present the first, preliminary, cosmological analysis of 772 SNe Ia from the Zwicky Transient Facility's second data release: an untargeted single-telescope sample whose volume-limited subset (z<0.06) is largely free of Malmquist bias. We correct the public data for known instrumental and calibration biases and the redshifts for peculiar motions. Using the 42 SH0ES calibrators (their host distances computed from Cepheids and geometric anchors) and a Bayesian hierarchical model of SN Ia standardisation, dust extinction, redshift and calibration uncertainties, we infer H_0 = (71.6 ± 1.5) km/s/Mpc after marginalising over deceleration with a flat prior (or (72.3 ± 1.1) km/s/Mpc if a prior on matter density from Pantheon+ is imposed), with the uncertainty dominated by the number of calibrators. We demonstrate robustness to the choice of light-curve and Milky Way dust models and to extensions of the model to include peculiar-velocity correlations, a host-mass step, and two stretch populations. These results are in agreement with previous distance-ladder measurements and 2.7σ (4.1σ) away from the value obtained from Planck data, suggesting that the resolution of the Hubble tension lies outside of SNe Ia---or the distance ladder entirely.
ER -