宇宙の膨張を測定:ダークエネルギー調査による新解析結果(A ‘new era’ in cosmology: Dark Energy Survey releases new analysis of how the universe expands)

2026-01-22 ミシガン大学

University of Michiganの研究者が参加する国際共同研究「Dark Energy Survey(DES)」は、宇宙の膨張史をこれまでで最も高精度に解析した最新成果を発表した。DESは数億個の銀河の分布と重力レンズ効果を用いて、宇宙膨張を加速させる未知の要因であるダークエネルギーの性質を検証している。今回の解析では、宇宙マイクロ波背景放射や超新星観測と組み合わせることで、標準宇宙論モデル(ΛCDM)と概ね整合的である一方、膨張率(ハッブル定数)を巡る既存の観測結果との緊張関係が依然として残ることが示された。研究者らは、観測精度の飛躍的向上により、ダークエネルギーの時間変化や重力理論の修正可能性を厳しく検証できる「宇宙論の新時代」が到来したと強調している。本成果は、宇宙の成り立ちと将来像を理解する上で重要な制約条件を提供する。

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ダークエネルギーサーベイ6年目の成果:銀河団形成と弱い重力レンズ効果による宇宙論的制約 Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing

DES Collaboration: T. M. C. Abbott, M. Adamow, M. Aguena, A. Alarcon, S. S. Allam, O. Alves, A. Amon, D. Anbajagane, F. Andrade-Oliveira, S. Avila, D. Bacon, E. J. Baxter, J. Beas-Gonzalez, K. Bechtol, M. R. Becker, G. M. Bernstein, E. Bertin, J. Blazek, S. Bocquet, D. Brooks, D. Brout, H. Camacho, G. Camacho-Ciurana, R. Camilleri, G. Campailla, A. Campos, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, P. Carrilho, F. J. Castander, R. Cawthon, C. Chang, A. Choi, J. M. Coloma-Nadal, M. Costanzi, M. Crocce, W. d’Assignies, L. N. da Costa, M. E. da Silva Pereira, T. M. Davis, J. De Vicente, J. DeRose, H. T. Diehl, S. Dodelson, C. Doux, A. Drlica-Wagner, T. F. Eifler, J. Elvin-Poole, J. Estrada, S. Everett, A. E. Evrard, J. Fang, A. Farahi, A. Ferté, B. Flaugher, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, M. Gatti, E. Gaztanaga, G. Giannini, P. Giles, K. Glazebrook, M. Gorsuch, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez, I. Harrison, W. G. Hartley, E. Henning, K. Herner, S. R. Hinton, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, E. M. Huff, D. Huterer, B. Jain, D. J. James, M. Jarvis, N. Jeffrey, T. Jeltema, T. Kacprzak, S. Kent, A. Kovacs, E. Krause, R. Kron, K. Kuehn, O. Lahav, S. Lee, E. Legnani, C. Lidman, H. Lin, N. MacCrann, M. Manera, T. Manning, R. Marco, J. L. Marshall et al. (72 additional authors not shown)
arXiv  Submitted on 21 Jan 2026
DOI:https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.14559

宇宙の膨張を測定:ダークエネルギー調査による新解析結果(A ‘new era’ in cosmology: Dark Energy Survey releases new analysis of how the universe expands)

Abstract

We present cosmology results combining galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing measured in the full six years (Y6) of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) covering ∼5000 deg2 . We perform a large-scale structure analysis with galaxy samples defined from the final data extending to redshift range z ≲ 2, using three two-point correlation functions (3×2pt): (i) cosmic shear measuring correlations among the shapes of 140 million source galaxies, (ii) auto-correlations of the spatial distribution of 9 million lens galaxies, and (iii) galaxy-galaxy lensing from the cross-correlation between lens positions and source shapes. We perform the analysis under a rigorous blinding protocol to prevent confirmation biases. We model the data in flat ΛCDM and wCDM cosmologies. We find consistent cosmological results from subsets of the three two-point correlation functions. Their combined analysis yields S8 ≡ σ8(Ωm/0.3)0.5 = 0.789+0.012 −0.012 and matter density Ωm = 0.333+0.023 −0.028 in ΛCDM (68% CL), where σ8 is the clustering amplitude. The factor of two improvement in constraining power in the Ωm–σ8 plane relative to DES Year 3 is due to higher source number density, extended redshift range, and improved modeling. These constraints show a (full-space) parameter difference of 1.8σ from a combination of cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary anisotropy datasets from Planck 2018, ACT-DR6, and SPT-3G DR1. Projected only into S8 the difference is 2.6σ. In wCDM the Y6 3×2pt results yield S8 = 0.782+0.021 −0.020, Ωm = 0.325+0.032 −0.035, and dark energy equation-of-state parameter w = −1.12+0.26 −0.20. For the first time, we combine all DES dark-energy probes: 3×2pt, SNe Ia, BAO and Clusters. In ΛCDM this combination yields a 2.8σ parameter difference from the CMB. When combining DES 3×2pt with other most constraining low-redshift datasets (DESI DR2 BAO, DES SNe Ia, SPT clusters), we find a 2.3σ parameter difference with CMB. A joint fit of Y6 3×2pt, CMB, and those low-z datasets produces the tightest ΛCDM constraints to date: S8 = 0.806+0.006 −0.007, Ωm = 0.302+0.003 −0.003, h = 0.683+0.003 −0.002, and Σ < 0.14 eV (95% CL). In wCDM, this dataset combination yields w = −0.981+0.021 −0.022, with no significant preference over ΛCDM.

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