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Because calibrated light curves of Type Ia supernovae have become a major tool to determine the local expansion rate of the Universe and also its geometrical structure, considerable attention has been given to models of these events over…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Hillebrandt , J. C. Niemeyer

The identification of the progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae (SNIa) is extremely important in several astrophysical contexts, ranging from stellar evolution in close binary systems to evaluating cosmological parameters. Determining the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Laura Greggio , Enrico Cappellaro

SN 2011fe was the nearest and best-observed type Ia supernova in a generation, and brought previous incomplete datasets into sharp contrast with the detailed new data. In retrospect, documenting spectroscopic behaviors of type Ia supernovae…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-27 J. Parrent , B. Friesen , M. Parthasarathy

The identity of the progenitor systems of type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is a major unsolved problem in astrophysics. SN Ia rates are providing some striking clues. We review the basics of SN rate measurement, preach about some sins of SN rate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Dan Maoz , Filippo Mannucci

We present Chandra X-ray observations of the young supernova remnant (SNR) 0509-67.5 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), believed to be the product of a Type Ia supernova (SN Ia). The remnant is very round in shape, with a distinct clumpy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jessica S. Warren , John P. Hughes

This study aims to elucidate the tension in the Hubble constant ($H_0$), a key metric in cosmology representing the universe's expansion rate. Conflicting results from independent measurements such as the Planck satellite mission and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-01 David Camarena , Valerio Marra

In this proceeding we review and expand on our recent work investigating the constancy of the absolute magnitude $M_B$ of Type Ia supernovae. In it, we used baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) to calibrate the supernova data and to check…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-28 Denitsa Staicova

The majority of thermonuclear explosions in the Universe seem to proceed in a rather standardised way, as explosions of carbon-oxygen (CO) white dwarfs in binary systems, leading to 'normal' Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). However, over the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Stefan Taubenberger

Model-independent approaches have gained increasing attention as powerful tools to investigate persistent tensions between cosmological observations and the predictions of $\Lambda$CDM. Notably, recent DESY5 Type Ia Supernovae (SNIa) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Arianna Favale , Adrià Gómez-Valent , Marina Migliaccio

Type Ia supernovae arise from the thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs in multiple star systems. A rare sub-class of SNe Ia exhibit signatures of interaction with circumstellar material (CSM), allowing for direct constraints on…

Current Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) models can reproduce most visible+IR+UV observations. In the X-ray band, the determination of elemental abundance ratios in supernova remnants (SNRs) through their spectra has reached enough precision to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-13 Eduardo Bravo , Carles Badenes , Héctor Martínez-Rodríguez

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) recently released the final results of its two principal probes of the expansion history: Type Ia Supernovae (SNe) and Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). We explore the cosmological implications of these data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Acevedo , M. Adamow , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , P. Armstrong , S. Avila , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. Brout , D. L. Burke , H. Camacho , R. Camilleri , G. Campailla , A. Carnero Rosell , A. Carr , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , K. C. Chan , C. Chang , R. Chen , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , N. Deiosso , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , L. Galbany , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , N. Jeffrey , T. Jeltema , R. Kessler , O. Lahav , J. Lee , S. Lee , C. Lidman , H. Lin , M. Lin , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. Muir , A. Möller , R. C. Nichol , A. Palmese , M. Paterno , W. J. Percival , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , B. Popovic , A. Porredon , J. Prat , H. Qu , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , D. Scolnic , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , P. Shah , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. Sullivan , M. E. C. Swanson , B. O. Sánchez , G. Tarle , G. Taylor , D. Thomas , C. To , L. Toribio San Cipriano , M. Toy , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , M. Vincenzi , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller , P. Wiseman , M. Yamamoto , B. Yanny

These lecture notes intend to form a short pedagogical introduction to the use of typical type Ia-Supernovae (hereafter SNIa) as standard candles to determine the energy density of the universe. Problems of principle for taking SNIa as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-20 M. Signore , D. Puy

The LambdaCDM model is the most commonly accepted framework in modern cosmology. However, the local measurements of the Hubble constant, H0, via the Supernovae Type Ia (SNe Ia) calibrated on Cepheids provide a value which is in significant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-28 M. G. Dainotti , B. De Simone , G. Montani , E. Rinaldi , M. Bogdan , K. M. Islam , A. Gangopadhyay

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thermonuclear runaways in certain white dwarfs in binary systems. They have been extensively studied, yet their progenitor and explosion mechanisms remain poorly understood. We study a large sample of SNe Ia…

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

Two main physical mechanisms are used to explain supernova explosions: thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf(Type Ia) and core collapse of a massive star (Type II and Type Ib/Ic). Type Ia supernovae serve as distance indicators that led…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-21 Lingzhi Wang , Xiaohong Cui , Hui Zhu , Wenwu Tian , Xiaofeng Wang

In this Letter, by reconstructing the $Om$ diagnostic and the deceleration parameter $q$ from the latest Union2 Type Ia supernova sample with and without the systematic error along with the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) and the cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Zhengxiang Li , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

A multipole expansion analysis is applied to 1420 MHz radio continuum images of supernova remnants (SNRs) in order to compare Type Ia and core collapse (CC) SNRs. Because the radio synchrotron emission is produced at the outer shock between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-27 Sujith Ranasinghe , Denis Leahy

We place novel constraints on the cosmokinetic parameters by using a joint analysis of the newest VLT-KMOS HII galaxies (HIIG) with the Supernovae Type Ia (SNIa) Pantheon sample. We combine the latter datasets in order to reconstruct, in a…