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Accounting for Selection Effects in Supernova Cosmology with Simulation-Based Inference and Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thermonuclear exploding stars that can be used to put constraints on the nature of our universe. One challenge with population analyses of SNe Ia is Malmquist bias, where we preferentially observe the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 Benjamin M. Boyd , Matthew Grayling , Stephen Thorp , Kaisey S. Mandel

Observations of Type Ia Supernovae, and Challenges for Cosmology

Observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) reveal correlations between their luminosities and light-curve shapes, and between their spectral sequence and photometric sequence. Assuming SNe Ia do not evolve at different redshifts, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Weidong Li , Alexei V. Filippenko

Modeling the Diversity of Type Ia Supernova Explosions

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are a prime tool in observational cosmology. A relation between their peak luminosities and the shapes of their light curves allows to infer their intrinsic luminosities and to use them as distance indicators.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-15 F. K. Roepke , W. Hillebrandt , D. Kasen , S. E. Woosley

Type Ia Supernovae and Cosmology

I discuss the use of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) for cosmological distance determinations. Low-redshift SNe Ia (z < 0.1) demonstrate that the Hubble expansion is linear with H_0 = 72 +/- 8 km/s/Mpc, and that the properties of dust in other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 Alexei V. Filippenko

Rates and Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae

The remarkable uniformity of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) has allowed astronomers to use them as distance indicators to measure the properties and expansion history of the Universe. However, SNe Ia exhibit intrinsic variation in both their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 William Michael Wood-Vasey

Rapid identification of lensed type Ia supernovae with color-magnitude selection

Strongly lensed type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) provide a unique cosmological probe to address the Hubble tension problem in cosmology. In addition to the sensitivity of the time delays to the value of the Hubble constant, the transient and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-27 Prajakta Mane , Anupreeta More , Surhud More

The Dark Energy Survey 5-year photometrically classified type Ia supernovae without host-galaxy redshifts

Current and future Type Ia Supernova (SN Ia) surveys will need to adopt new approaches to classifying SNe and obtaining their redshifts without spectra if they wish to reach their full potential. We present here a novel approach that uses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-13 A. Möller , P. Wiseman , M. Smith , C. Lidman , T. M. Davis , R. Kessler , M. Sako , M. Sullivan , L. Galbany , J. Lee , R. C. Nichol , B. O. Sánchez , M. Vincenzi , B. E. Tucker , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , A. Carnero Rosell , F. J. Castander , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. Myles , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. L. Tucker , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira

Type Ia Supernova models: latest developments

Supernovae of type Ia (SNe Ia) are very important for cosmography. To exclude systematic effects in linking the observed light of distant SNe Ia to the parameters of cosmological models, one has to understand the nature of supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Blinnikov , E. Sorokina

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Cosmological Analysis and Systematic Uncertainties

We present the full Hubble diagram of photometrically-classified Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Dark Energy Survey supernova program (DES-SN). DES-SN discovered more than 20,000 SN candidates and obtained spectroscopic redshifts of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-24 M. Vincenzi , D. Brout , P. Armstrong , B. Popovic , G. Taylor , M. Acevedo , R. Camilleri , R. Chen , T. M. Davis , S. R. Hinton , L. Kelsey , R. Kessler , J. Lee , C. Lidman , A. Möller , H. Qu , M. Sako , B. Sanchez , D. Scolnic , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , P. Wiseman , J. Asorey , B. A. Bassett , D. Carollo , A. Carr , R. J. Foley , C. Frohmaier , L. Galbany , K. Glazebrook , O. Graur , E. Kovacs , K. Kuehn , U. Malik , R. C. Nichol , B. Rose , B. E. Tucker , M. Toy , D. L. Tucker , F. Yuan , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Conselice , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , S. Lee , H. Lin , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , A. Palmese , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , C. To , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck

Type Ia Supernovae Strongly Interacting with Their Circumstellar Medium

Owing to their utility for measurements of cosmic acceleration, Type Ia supernovae (SNe) are perhaps the best-studied class of SNe, yet the progenitor systems of these explosions largely remain a mystery. A rare subclass of SNe Ia show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jeffrey M. Silverman , Peter E. Nugent , Avishay Gal-Yam , Mark Sullivan , D. Andrew Howell , Alexei V. Filippenko , Iair Arcavi , Sagi Ben-Ami , Joshua S. Bloom , S. Bradley Cenko , Yi Cao , Ryan Chornock , Kelsey I. Clubb , Alison L. Coil , Ryan J. Foley , Melissa L. Graham , Christopher V. Griffith , Assaf Horesh , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni , Douglas C. Leonard , Weidong Li , Thomas Matheson , Adam A. Miller , Maryam Modjaz , Eran O. Ofek , Yen-Chen Pan , Daniel A. Perley , Dovi Poznanski , Robert M. Quimby , Thea N. Steele , Assaf Sternberg , Dong Xu , Ofer Yaron

First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Constraints on Cosmological Parameters

We present the first cosmological parameter constraints using measurements of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN). The analysis uses a subsample of 207 spectroscopically confirmed SNe Ia from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-13 T. M. C. Abbott , S. Allam , P. Andersen , C. Angus , J. Asorey , A. Avelino , S. Avila , B. A. Bassett , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. Brout , P. Brown , D. L. Burke , J. Calcino , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , R. Casas , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , P. Challis , M. Childress , A. Clocchiatti , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , E. Fernandez , A. V. Filippenko , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , R. J. Foley , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , L. Galbany , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , K. Glazebrook , D. A. Goldstein , S. Gonzalez-Gaitan , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , R. R. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , J. K. Hoormann , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , E. Kasai , S. Kent , R. Kessler , A. G. Kim , R. P. Kirshner , E. Kovacs , E. Krause , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , J. Lasker , G. F. Lewis , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , M. Lima , H. Lin , E. Macaulay , M. A. G. Maia , K. S. Mandel , M. March , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , V. Miranda , J. J. Mohr , E. Morganson , D. Muthukrishna , A. Möller , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , P. Nugent , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , Y. -C. Pan , A. A. Plazas , M. Pursiainen , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , D. Scolnic , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. Sharp , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , N. E. Sommer , H. Spinka , E. Suchyta , M. Sullivan , E. Swann , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , R. C. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , B. E. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , A. R. Walker , W. Wester , P. Wiseman , R. C. Wolf , B. Yanny , B. Zhang , Y. Zhang

A Fully Photometric Approach to Type Ia Supernova Cosmology in the LSST Era: Host Galaxy Redshifts and Supernova Classification

The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is expected to discover nearly a million Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa), offering an unprecedented opportunity to constrain dark energy. The vast majority of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Ayan Mitra , Richard Kessler , Rebecca C. Chen , Alex Gagliano , Matthew Grayling , Surhud More , Gautham Narayan , Helen Qu , Srinivasan Raghunathan , Alex I. Malz , Michelle Lochner , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Modelling selection efficiency and observed core collapse supernova contamination

The analysis of current and future cosmological surveys of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at high-redshift depends on the accurate photometric classification of the SN events detected. Generating realistic simulations of photometric SN surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 M. Vincenzi , M. Sullivan , O. Graur , D. Brout , T. M. Davis , C. Frohmaier , L. Galbany , C. P. Gutiérrez , S. R. Hinton , R. Hounsell , L. Kelsey , R. Kessler , E. Kovacs , S. Kuhlmann , J. Lasker , C. Lidman , A. Möller , R. C. Nichol , M. Sako , D. Scolnic , M. Smith , E. Swann , P. Wiseman , J. Asorey , G. F. Lewis , R. Sharp , B. E. Tucker , M. Aguena , S. Allam , S. Avila , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , A. Choi , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , M. A. G. Maia , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker , R. D. Wilkinson

Probing Physics Beyond the Standard Model through Combined Analyses of Next-Generation Type Ia Supernova, CMB, and BAO Surveys

Observations of Type Ia supernovae (\sne), which probe the late Universe, together with baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which probe the intermediate and early epochs, provide complementary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 Srinivasan Raghunathan , Ayan Mitra , Nikolina Šarčević , Fei Ge , Corentin Ravoux , Christos Georgiou , Renée Hložek , Richard Kessler , Gautham Narayan , Paul Rogozenski , Paul Shah , Georgios Valogiannis , Joaquin Vieira , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Type Ia Supernova Spectral Line Ratios as Luminosity Indicators

Type Ia supernovae have played a crucial role in the discovery of the dark energy, via the measurement of their light curves and the determination of the peak brightness via fitting templates to the observed lightcurve shape. Two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sebastien Bongard , E. Baron , G. Smadja , David Branch , Peter H. Hauschildt

Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) : real time operations and photometric analysis

Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) have provided the first evidence for an accelerating universe and for the existence of an unknown ``dark energy'' driving this expansion. The 5-year Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) will deliver \~700 type Ia…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 N. Palanque-Delabrouille

Type Ia Supernovae: Their Origin and Possible Applications in Cosmology

Spectroscopic and photometric evidence indicates that Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are the thermonuclear explosions of accreting white dwarfs. However, the progenitor binary systems and hydrodynamical models for SNe Ia are still…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ken'ichi Nomoto , Koichi Iwamoto , Nobuhiro Kishimoto

The Foundation Supernova Survey: Motivation, Design, Implementation, and First Data Release

The Foundation Supernova Survey aims to provide a large, high-fidelity, homogeneous, and precisely-calibrated low-redshift Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) sample for cosmology. The calibration of the current low-redshift SN sample is the largest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Ryan J. Foley , Daniel Scolnic , Armin Rest , S. W. Jha , Y. -C. Pan , A. G. Riess , P. Challis , K. C. Chambers , D. A. Coulter , K. G. Dettman , M. M. Foley , O. D. Fox , M. E. Huber , D. O. Jones , C. D. Kilpatrick , R. P. Kirshner , A. S. B. Schultz , M. R. Siebert , H. A. Flewelling , B. Gibson , E. A. Magnier , J. A. Miller , N. Primak , S. J. Smartt , K. W. Smith , R. J. Wainscoat , C. Waters , M. Willman

Incorporating Astrophysical Systematics into a Generalized Likelihood for Cosmology with Type Ia Supernovae

Traditional cosmological inference using Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa) have used stretch- and color-corrected fits of SN Ia light curves and assumed a resulting fiducial mean and symmetric intrinsic dispersion for the resulting relative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-17 Kara A. Ponder , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Andrew R. Zentner

The Role of Variations of Central Density Of White Dwarf Progenitors Upon Type Ia Supernovae

The discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe using Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) has stimulated a tremendous amount of interest in the use of SNe Type Ia events as standard cosmological candles, and as a probe of the fundamental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 R. Fisher , D. Falta , G. Jordan , D. Lamb