Forecasting cosmological constraints from the weak lensing magnification of type Ia supernovae measured by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

The weak lensing magnification of type la supernovae (SNe la) is sensitive to the clustering of matter and provides an independent cosmological probe complementary to SN Ia distance measurements. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is uniquely sensitive to this measurement as it can discover high redshift SNe Ia and measure them with high precision. We present a methodology for reconstructing the probability distribution of the weak lensing magnification mu of SNe la, p(mu), from observational data, and using it to constrain cosmological parameters. We find that the reconstructed p(mu) can be fitted accurately by a stretched Gaussian distribution and used to measure the variance of mu, xi(mu), which can be compared to theoretical predictions in a likelihood analysis. Applying our methodology to a set of realistically simulated SNe Ia expected from the Roman Space Telescope, we find that using the weak lensing magnification of the SNe Ia constrains a combination of matter density Omega(m) and matter clustering amplitude a sigma(8). SN la distances alone lead to a better than 1% measurement of Omega(m). The combination of SN la weak lensing magnification and distance measurements result in a similar to 10% measurement on sigma(8). The SNe Ia from Roman will be powerful in constraining the cosmological model.