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A huge amount of good quality astrophysical data converges towards the picture of a spatially flat universe undergoing the today observed phase of accelerated expansion. This new observational trend is commonly addressed as Precision…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 S. Capozziello

Large mosaic multiCCD camera is the key instrument for modern digital sky survey. DECam is an extremely red sensitive 520 Megapixel camera designed for the incoming Dark Energy Survey (DES). It is consist of sixty two 4k$\times$2k and…

Future dark energy space missions such as JDEM and EUCLID are being designed to survey the galaxy population to trace the geometry of the universe and the growth of structure, which both depend on the cosmological model. To reach the goal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Jouvel , J-P. Kneib , O. Ilbert , G. Bernstein , S. Arnouts , T. Dahlen , A. Ealet , B. Milliard , H. Aussel , P. Capak , A. Koekemoer , V. Le Brun , H. McCracken , M. Salvato , N. Scoville

Strongly lensed Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) with an observable time delay can be used to constrain the expansion history of the Universe through time-delay cosmography (TDC). As the sample of time-delay lenses grows to statistical size,…

In this paper we present photometric redshift (photo-$z$) estimates for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys, currently the most sensitive optical survey covering the majority of the extra-galactic sky. Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Kenneth J. Duncan

Forthcoming instruments designed for high-cadence large-area surveys, such as the Dark Energy Survey and Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, will generate several GB of data products every few minutes during survey operations. Since such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-01 K. Kuehn , R. Hupe

Combining multiple observational probes is a powerful technique to provide robust and precise constraints on cosmological parameters. In this letter, we present the first joint analysis of cluster abundances and auto/cross correlations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 C. To , E. Krause , E. Rozo , H. Wu , D. Gruen , R. H. Wechsler , T. F. Eifler , E. S. Rykoff , M. Costanzi , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , S. L. Bridle , R. Cawthon , A. Choi , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. DeRose , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Elvin-Poole , X. Fang , A. Farahi , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , W. G. Hartley , B. Hoyle , M. Jarvis , N. MacCrann , T. McClintock , V. Miranda , M. E. S. Pereira , Y. Park , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. M. Rau , A. J. Ross , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , M. A. Troxel , T. N. Varga , P. Vielzeuf , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , J. Annis , S. Avila , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. Chang , C. Conselice , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , D. Huterer , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , J. Weller , W. Wester

We predict cosmological constraints for forthcoming surveys using Superluminous Supernovae (SLSNe) as standardisable candles. Due to their high peak luminosity, these events can be observed to high redshift (z~3), opening up new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Dario Scovacricchi , Robert C. Nichol , David Bacon , Mark Sullivan , Szymon Prajs

We use numerical simulations to characterize the performance of a clustering-based method to calibrate photometric redshift biases. In particular, we cross-correlate the weak lensing (WL) source galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 M. Gatti , P. Vielzeuf , C. Davis , R. Cawthon , M. M. Rau , J. DeRose , J. De Vicente , A. Alarcon , E. Rozo , E. Gaztanaga , B. Hoyle , R. Miquel , G. M. Bernstein , C. Bonnett , A. Carnero Rosell , F. J. Castander , C. Chang , L. N. da Costa , D. Gruen , J. Gschwend , W. G. Hartley , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Roodman , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. A. Troxel , R. H. Wechsler , J. Asorey , T. M. Davis , K. Glazebrook , S. R. Hinton , G. Lewis , C. Lidman , E. Macaulay , A. Möller , C. R. O'Neill , N. E. Sommer , S. A. Uddin , F. Yuan , B. Zhang , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , J. K. Hoormann , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , K. Reil , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf

The Cosmology Data Management system (CosmoDM) is an automated and flexible data management system for the processing and calibration of data from optical photometric surveys. It is designed to run on supercomputers and to minimize disk I/O…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-01 S. Desai , J. J. Mohr , R. Henderson , M. Kummel , K. Paech , M. Wetzstein

The nature of dark energy remains a profound mystery 20 years after the discovery of cosmic acceleration. A very high number density galaxy redshift survey over a wide area (HD GRS Wide) spanning the redshift range of 0.5<z<4 using the same…

We present cosmological results from the measurement of clustering of galaxy, quasar and Lyman-$\alpha$ forest tracers from the first year of observations with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI Data Release 1). We adopt the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 DESI Collaboration , A. G. Adame , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Alam , D. M. Alexander , C. Allende Prieto , M. Alvarez , O. Alves , A. Anand , U. Andrade , E. Armengaud , S. Avila , A. Aviles , H. Awan , B. Bahr-Kalus , S. Bailey , C. Baltay , A. Bault , J. Behera , S. BenZvi , F. Beutler , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , R. Blum , M. Bonici , S. Brieden , A. Brodzeller , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , E. Burtin , R. Calderon , R. Canning , A. Carnero Rosell , R. Cereskaite , J. L. Cervantes-Cota , S. Chabanier , E. Chaussidon , J. Chaves-Montero , D. Chebat , S. Chen , X. Chen , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. Cuceu , T. M. Davis , K. Dawson , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , N. Deiosso , A. Dey , B. Dey , Z. Ding , P. Doel , J. Edelstein , S. Eftekharzadeh , D. J. Eisenstein , W. Elbers , A. Elliott , P. Fagrelius , K. Fanning , S. Ferraro , J. Ereza , N. Findlay , B. Flaugher , A. Font-Ribera , D. Forero-Sánchez , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. S. Frenk , C. Garcia-Quintero , L. H. Garrison , E. Gaztañaga , H. Gil-Marín , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , V. Gonzalez-Perez , C. Gordon , D. Green , D. Gruen , R. Gsponer , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , B. Hadzhiyska , C. Hahn , M. M. S Hanif , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , K. Honscheid , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , V. Iršič , M. Ishak , R. Joyce , S. Juneau , N. G. Karaçaylı , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , D. Kirkby , H. Kong , S. E. Koposov , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , O. Lahav , Y. Lai , T. -W. Lan , M. Landriau , D. Lang , J. Lasker , J. M. Le Goff , L. Le Guillou , A. Leauthaud , M. E. Levi , T. S. Li , K. Lodha , C. Magneville , M. Manera , D. Margala , P. Martini , W. Matthewson , M. Maus , P. McDonald , L. Medina-Varela , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. Moon , S. Moore , J. Moustakas , N. Mudur , E. Mueller , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , A. D. Myers , S. Nadathur , L. Napolitano , R. Neveux , J. A. Newman , N. M. Nguyen , J. Nie , G. Niz , H. E. Noriega , N. Padmanabhan , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Pan , S. Penmetsa , W. J. Percival , M. M. Pieri , M. Pinon , C. Poppett , A. Porredon , F. Prada , A. Pérez-Fernández , I. Pérez-Ràfols , D. Rabinowitz , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , S. Ramirez-Solano , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , M. Rezaie , J. Rich , A. Rocher , C. Rockosi , N. A. Roe , A. Rosado-Marin , A. J. Ross , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , L. Samushia , E. Sanchez , C. Saulder , E. F. Schlafly , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , A. Shafieloo , R. Sharples , J. Silber , A. Slosar , A. Smith , D. Sprayberry , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , P. Taylor , S. Trusov , R. Vaisakh , D. Valcin , F. Valdes , G. Valogiannis , M. Vargas-Magaña , L. Verde , M. Walther , B. Wang , M. S. Wang , B. A. Weaver , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , D. H. Weinberg , M. White , M. J. Wilson , L. Yi , J. Yu , Y. Yu , S. Yuan , C. Yèche , E. A. Zaborowski , P. Zarrouk , H. Zhang , C. Zhao , R. Zhao , R. Zhou , T. Zhuang , H. Zou

A huge amount of good quality data converges towards the picture of a spatially flat universe undergoing the today observed phase of accelerated expansion. This new observational trend is commonly addressed as Precision Cosmology. Despite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-02 S. Capozziello

We explores the Pantheon+SH0ES dataset to identify patterns that can discriminate between different cosmological models. We focus on determining whether the behaviour of dark energy is consistent with the standard $\Lambda$CDM model or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Simone Vilardi , Salvatore Capozziello , Massimo Brescia

A fundamental question in cosmology is whether dark energy evolves over time, a topic that has gained prominence since the discovery of cosmic acceleration. Recently, the DESI collaboration has reported increasing evidence for evolving dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Deng Wang , David Mota

DESI (Dark Energy Spectropic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations and the growth of structure through redshift-space distortions with a wide-area galaxy and quasar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 DESI Collaboration , Amir Aghamousa , Jessica Aguilar , Steve Ahlen , Shadab Alam , Lori E. Allen , Carlos Allende Prieto , James Annis , Stephen Bailey , Christophe Balland , Otger Ballester , Charles Baltay , Lucas Beaufore , Chris Bebek , Timothy C. Beers , Eric F. Bell , José Luis Bernal , Robert Besuner , Florian Beutler , Chris Blake , Hannes Bleuler , Michael Blomqvist , Robert Blum , Adam S. Bolton , Cesar Briceno , David Brooks , Joel R. Brownstein , Elizabeth Buckley-Geer , Angela Burden , Etienne Burtin , Nicolas G. Busca , Robert N. Cahn , Yan-Chuan Cai , Laia Cardiel-Sas , Raymond G. Carlberg , Pierre-Henri Carton , Ricard Casas , Francisco J. Castander , Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota , Todd M. Claybaugh , Madeline Close , Carl T. Coker , Shaun Cole , Johan Comparat , Andrew P. Cooper , M. -C. Cousinou , Martin Crocce , Jean-Gabriel Cuby , Daniel P. Cunningham , Tamara M. Davis , Kyle S. Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Juan De Vicente , Timothée Delubac , Mark Derwent , Arjun Dey , Govinda Dhungana , Zhejie Ding , Peter Doel , Yutong T. Duan , Anne Ealet , Jerry Edelstein , Sarah Eftekharzadeh , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Ann Elliott , Stéphanie Escoffier , Matthew Evatt , Parker Fagrelius , Xiaohui Fan , Kevin Fanning , Arya Farahi , Jay Farihi , Ginevra Favole , Yu Feng , Enrique Fernandez , Joseph R. Findlay , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Michael J. Fitzpatrick , Brenna Flaugher , Samuel Flender , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Pablo Fosalba , Carlos S. Frenk , Michele Fumagalli , Boris T. Gaensicke , Giuseppe Gallo , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Enrique Gaztanaga , Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo , Terry Gerard , Irena Gershkovich , Tommaso Giannantonio , Denis Gillet , Guillermo Gonzalez-de-Rivera , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Shelby Gott , Or Graur , Gaston Gutierrez , Julien Guy , Salman Habib , Henry Heetderks , Ian Heetderks , Katrin Heitmann , Wojciech A. Hellwing , David A. Herrera , Shirley Ho , Stephen Holland , Klaus Honscheid , Eric Huff , Timothy A. Hutchinson , Dragan Huterer , Ho Seong Hwang , Joseph Maria Illa Laguna , Yuzo Ishikawa , Dianna Jacobs , Niall Jeffrey , Patrick Jelinsky , Elise Jennings , Linhua Jiang , Jorge Jimenez , Jennifer Johnson , Richard Joyce , Eric Jullo , Stéphanie Juneau , Sami Kama , Armin Karcher , Sonia Karkar , Robert Kehoe , Noble Kennamer , Stephen Kent , Martin Kilbinger , Alex G. Kim , David Kirkby , Theodore Kisner , Ellie Kitanidis , Jean-Paul Kneib , Sergey Koposov , Eve Kovacs , Kazuya Koyama , Anthony Kremin , Richard Kron , Luzius Kronig , Andrea Kueter-Young , Cedric G. Lacey , Robin Lafever , Ofer Lahav , Andrew Lambert , Michael Lampton , Martin Landriau , Dustin Lang , Tod R. Lauer , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Laurent Le Guillou , Auguste Le Van Suu , Jae Hyeon Lee , Su-Jeong Lee , Daniela Leitner , Michael Lesser , Michael E. Levi , Benjamin L'Huillier , Baojiu Li , Ming Liang , Huan Lin , Eric Linder , Sarah R. Loebman , Zarija Lukić , Jun Ma , Niall MacCrann , Christophe Magneville , Laleh Makarem , Marc Manera , Christopher J. Manser , Robert Marshall , Paul Martini , Richard Massey , Thomas Matheson , Jeremy McCauley , Patrick McDonald , Ian D. McGreer , Aaron Meisner , Nigel Metcalfe , Timothy N. Miller , Ramon Miquel , John Moustakas , Adam Myers , Milind Naik , Jeffrey A. Newman , Robert C. Nichol , Andrina Nicola , Luiz Nicolati da Costa , Jundan Nie , Gustavo Niz , Peder Norberg , Brian Nord , Dara Norman , Peter Nugent , Thomas O'Brien , Minji Oh , Knut A. G. Olsen , Cristobal Padilla , Hamsa Padmanabhan , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Antonella Palmese , Daniel Pappalardo , Isabelle Pâris , Changbom Park , Anna Patej , John A. Peacock , Hiranya V. Peiris , Xiyan Peng , Will J. Percival , Sandrine Perruchot , Matthew M. Pieri , Richard Pogge , Jennifer E. Pollack , Claire Poppett , Francisco Prada , Abhishek Prakash , Ronald G. Probst , David Rabinowitz , Anand Raichoor , Chang Hee Ree , Alexandre Refregier , Xavier Regal , Beth Reid , Kevin Reil , Mehdi Rezaie , Constance M. Rockosi , Natalie Roe , Samuel Ronayette , Aaron Roodman , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Graziano Rossi , Eduardo Rozo , Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider , Eli S. Rykoff , Cristiano Sabiu , Lado Samushia , Eusebio Sanchez , Javier Sanchez , David J. Schlegel , Michael Schneider , Michael Schubnell , Aurélia Secroun , Uros Seljak , Hee-Jong Seo , Santiago Serrano , Arman Shafieloo , Huanyuan Shan , Ray Sharples , Michael J. Sholl , William V. Shourt , Joseph H. Silber , David R. Silva , Martin M. Sirk , Anze Slosar , Alex Smith , George F. Smoot , Debopam Som , Yong-Seon Song , David Sprayberry , Ryan Staten , Andy Stefanik , Gregory Tarle , Suk Sien Tie , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Francisco Valdes , Octavio Valenzuela , Monica Valluri , Mariana Vargas-Magana , Licia Verde , Alistair R. Walker , Jiali Wang , Yuting Wang , Benjamin A. Weaver , Curtis Weaverdyck , Risa H. Wechsler , David H. Weinberg , Martin White , Qian Yang , Christophe Yeche , Tianmeng Zhang , Gong-Bo Zhao , Yi Zheng , Xu Zhou , Zhimin Zhou , Yaling Zhu , Hu Zou , Ying Zu

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have been essential for probing the nature of dark energy; however, most SN analyses rely on the same low-redshift sample, which may lead to shared systematics. In a companion paper (arXiv:2508.10878), we…