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A Model-Independent Photometric Redshift Estimator for Type Ia Supernovae

The use of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as cosmological standard candles is fundamental in modern observational cosmology. In this letter, we derive a simple empirical photometric redshift estimator for SNe Ia using a training set of SNe Ia…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Yun Wang

Not Color Blind: Using Multiband Photometry to Classify Supernovae

Large numbers of supernovae (SNe) have been discovered in recent years, and many more will be found in the near future. Once discovered, further study of a SN and its possible use as an astronomical tool (e.g., as a distance estimator)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dovi Poznanski , Avishay Gal-Yam , Dan Maoz , Alexei V. Filippenko , Douglas C. Leonard , Thomas Matheson

First-Year Spectroscopy for the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

This paper presents spectroscopy of supernovae discovered in the first season of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey. This program searches for and measures multi-band light curves of supernovae in the redshift range z = 0.05 -…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chen Zheng , Roger W. Romani , Masao Sako , John Marriner , Bruce Bassett , Andrew Becker , Changsu Choi , David Cinabro , Fritz DeJongh , Darren L. Depoy , Ben Dilday , Mamoru Doi , Joshua A. Frieman , Peter M. Garnavich , Craig J. Hogan , Jon Holtzman , Myungshin Im , Saurabh Jha , Richard Kessler , Kohki Konishi , Hubert Lampeitl , Jennifer L. Marshall , David McGinnis , Gajus Miknaitis , Robert C. Nichol , Jose Luis Prieto , Adam G. Riess , Michael W. Richmond , Donald P. Schneider , Mathew Smith , Naohiro Takanashi , Kouichi Tokita , Kurt van der Heyden , Naoki Yasuda , Roberto J. Assef , John Barentine , Ralf Bender , Roger D. Blandford , Malcolm Bremer , Howard Brewington , Chris A. Collins , Arlin Crotts , Jack Dembicky , Jason Eastman , Alastair Edge , Ed Elson , Michael E. Eyler , Alexei V. Filippenko , Ryan J. Foley , Stephan Frank , Ariel Goobar , Michael Harvanek , Ulrich Hopp , Yutaka Ihara , Steven Kahn , William Ketzeback , Scott J. Kleinman , Wolfram Kollatschny , Jurek Krzesiński , Giorgos Leloudas , Daniel C. Long , John Lucey , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Russet J. McMillan , Christopher W. Morgan , Tomoki Morokuma , Atsuko Nitta , Linda Ostman , Kaike Pan , A. Kathy Romer , Gabrelle Saurage , Katie Schlesinger , Stephanie A. Snedden , Jesper Sollerman , Maximilian Stritzinger , Linda C. Watson , Shannon Watters , J. Craig Wheeler , Donald York

Survey Requirements for Accurate and Precise Photometric Redshifts for Type Ia Supernovae

In this paper we advance the simple analytic photometric redshift estimator for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) proposed by Wang (2007), and use it to study simulated SN Ia data. We find that better than 0.5% accuracy in z_phot (with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yun Wang , Gautham Narayan , Michael Wood-Vasey

Measuring Type Ia Supernova Distances and Redshifts From Their Multi-band Light Curves

The distance and redshift of a type Ia supernova can be determined simultaneously through its multi-band light curves. This fact may be used for imaging surveys that discover and obtain photometry for large numbers of supernovae; so many…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alex G. Kim , Ramon Miquel

The Dark Energy Survey 5-year photometrically identified Type Ia Supernovae

As part of the cosmology analysis using Type Ia Supernovae (SN Ia) in the Dark Energy Survey (DES), we present photometrically identified SN Ia samples using multi-band light-curves and host galaxy redshifts. For this analysis, we use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 A. Möller , M. Smith , M. Sako , M. Sullivan , M. Vincenzi , P. Wiseman , P. Armstrong , J. Asorey , D. Brout , D. Carollo , T. M. Davis , C. Frohmaier , L. Galbany , K. Glazebrook , L. Kelsey , R. Kessler , G. F. Lewis , C. Lidman , U. Malik , R. C. Nichol , D. Scolnic , B. E. Tucker , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. March , J. L. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga

SNLS Spectroscopy: Testing for Evolution in Type Ia Supernovae

Aims: We present a quantitative study of a new data set of high redshift Type Ia supernovae spectra, observed at the Gemini telescopes during the first 34 months of the Supernova Legacy Survey. During this time 123 supernovae candidates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. J. Bronder , I. M. Hook , P. Astier , D. Balam , C. Balland , S. Basa , R. G. Carlberg , A. Conley , D. Fouchez , J. Guy , D. A. Howell , J. D. Neill , R. Pain , K. Perrett , C. J. Pritchet , N. Regnault , M. Sullivan , S. Baumont , S. Fabbro , M. Filliol , S. Perlmutter , P. Ripoche

Measurements of the Rate of Type Ia Supernovae at Redshift z < ~0.3 from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

We present a measurement of the volumetric Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) rate based on data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II) Supernova Survey. The adopted sample of supernovae (SNe) includes 516 SNe Ia at redshift z \lesssim 0.3,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-07 Benjamin Dilday , Mathew Smith , Bruce Bassett , Andrew Becker , Ralf Bender , Francisco Castander , David Cinabro , Alexei V. Filippenko , Joshua A. Frieman , Lluis Galbany , Peter M. Garnavich , Ariel Goobar , Ulrich Hopp , Yutaka Ihara , Saurabh W. Jha , Richard Kessler , Hubert Lampeitl , John Marriner , Ramon Miquel , Mercedes Molla , Robert C. Nichol , Jakob Nordin , Adam G. Riess , Masao Sako , Donald P. Schneider , Jesper Sollerman , J. Craig Wheeler , Linda Ostman , Dmitry Bizyaev , Howard Brewington , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Dan Oravetz , Kaike Pan , Audrey Simmons , Stephanie Snedden

Photometric classification and redshift estimation of LSST Supernovae

Supernova (SN) classification and redshift estimation using photometric data only have become very important for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), given the large number of SNe that LSST will observe and the impossibility of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Mi Dai , Steve Kuhlmann , Yun Wang , Eve Kovacs

The Discovery of the Most Distant Known Type Ia Supernova at Redshift 1.914

We present the discovery of a Type Ia supernova (SN) at redshift $z = 1.914$ from the CANDELS multi-cycle treasury program on the \textit{Hubble Space Telescope (HST)}. This SN was discovered in the infrared using the Wide-Field Camera 3,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 David O. Jones , Steven A. Rodney , Adam G. Riess , Bahram Mobasher , Tomas Dahlen , Curtis McCully , Teddy F. Frederiksen , Stefano Casertano , Jens Hjorth , Charles R. Keeton , Anton Koekemoer , Louis-Gregory Strolger , Tommy G. Wiklind , Peter Challis , Or Graur , Brian Hayden , Brandon Patel , Benjamin J. Weiner , Alexei V. Filippenko , Peter Garnavich , Saurabh W. Jha , Robert P. Kirshner , Henry C. Ferguson , Norman A. Grogin , Dale Kocevski

Do spectra improve distance measurements of Type Ia supernovae?

[Abridged] We investigate the use of a wide variety of spectroscopic measurements to determine distances to low-redshift Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia). We consider linear models for predicting distances to SN Ia using light-curve width and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-04 Stéphane Blondin , Kaisey S. Mandel , Robert P. Kirshner

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Technical Summary

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) has embarked on a multi-year project to identify and measure light curves for intermediate-redshift (0.05 < z < 0.35) Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) using repeated five-band (ugriz) imaging over an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joshua A. Frieman , B. Bassett , A. Becker , C. Choi , D. Cinabro , F. DeJongh , D. L. Depoy , B. Dilday , M. Doi , P. M. Garnavich , C. J. Hogan , J. Holtzman , M. Im , S. Jha , R. Kessler , K. Konishi , H. Lampeitl , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , D. McGinnis , G. Miknaitis , R. C. Nichol , J. L. Prieto , A. G. Riess , M. W. Richmond , R. Romani , M. Sako , D. P. Schneider , M. Smith , N. Takanashi , K. Tokita , K. van der Heyden , N. Yasuda , C. Zheng , J. Adelman-McCarthy , J. Annis , R. J. Assef , J. Barentine , R. Bender , R. D. Blandford , W. N. Boroski , M. Bremer , H. Brewington , C. A. Collins , A. Crotts , J. Dembicky , J. Eastman , A. Edge , E. Edmondson , E. Elson , M. E. Eyler , A. V. Filippenko , R. J. Foley , S. Frank , A. Goobar , T. Gueth , J. E. Gunn , M. Harvanek , U. Hopp , Y. Ihara , Ž. Ivezić , S. Kahn , J. Kaplan , S. Kent , W. Ketzeback , S. J. Kleinman , W. Kollatschny , R. G. Kron , J. Krzesiński , D. Lamenti , G. Leloudas , H. Lin , D. C. Long , J. Lucey , R. H. Lupton , E. Malanushenko , V. Malanushenko , R. J. McMillan , J. Mendez , C. W. Morgan , T. Morokuma , A. Nitta , L. Ostman , K. Pan , C. M. Rockosi , A. K. Romer , P. Ruiz-Lapuente , G. Saurage , K. Schlesinger , S. A. Snedden , J. Sollerman , C. Stoughton , M. Stritzinger , M. SubbaRao , D. Tucker , P. Vaisanen , L. C. Watson , S. Watters , J. C. Wheeler , B. Yanny , D. York

Photometric redshifts for supernovae Ia in the Supernova Legacy Survey

We present a method using the SALT2 light curve fitter to determine the redshift of Type Ia supernovae in the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) based on their photometry in g', r', i' and z'. On 289 supernovae of the first three years of SNLS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 N. Palanque-Delabrouille , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , S. Pascal , J. Rich , J. Guy , G. Bazin , P. Astier , C. Balland , S. Basa , R. G. Carlberg , A. Conley , D. Fouchez , D. Hardin , I. M. Hook , D. A. Howell , R. Pain , K. Perrett , C. J. Pritchet , N. Regnault , M. Sullivan

Supernovae in the Subaru Deep Field: the rate and delay-time distribution of type Ia supernovae out to redshift 2

The type Ia supernova (SN Ia) rate, when compared to the cosmic star formation history (SFH), can be used to derive the delay-time distribution (DTD) of SNe Ia, which can distinguish among progenitor models. We present the results of a SN…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Or Graur , Dovi Poznanski , Dan Maoz , Naoki Yasuda , Tomonori Totani , Masataka Fukugita , Alexei V. Filippenko , Ryan J. Foley , Jeffrey M. Silverman , Avishay Gal-Yam , Assaf Horesh , Buell T. Jannuzi

Restframe I-band Hubble diagram for type Ia supernovae up to redshift z ~0.5

We present a novel technique for fitting restframe I-band light curves on a data set of 42 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Using the result of the fit, we construct a Hubble diagram with 26 SNe from the subset at 0.01< z<0.1. Adding two SNe at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The Supernova Cosmology Project , : , S. Nobili , R. Amanullah , G. Garavini , A. Goobar , C. Lidman , V. Stanishev , G. Aldering , P. Antilogus , P. Astier , M. S. Burns , A. Conley , S. E. Deustua , R. Ellis , S. Fabbro , V. Fadeyev , G. Folatelli , R. Gibbons , G. Goldhaber , D. E. Groom , I. Hook , D. A. Howell , A. G. Kim , R. A. Knop , P. E. Nugent , R. Pain , S. Perlmutter , R. Quimby , J. Raux , N. Regnault , P. Ruiz-Lapuente , G. Sainton , K. Schahmaneche , E. Smith , A. L. Spadafora , R. C. Thomas , L. Wang

A Template-Based Approach to the Photometric Classification of SN 1991bg-like Supernovae in the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

The use of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) to measure cosmological parameters has grown significantly over the past two decades. However, there exists a significant diversity in the SN Ia population that is not well understood. Over-luminous SN…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Daniel Perrefort , Yike Zhang , Lluís Galbany , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Santiago González-Gaitán

Subaru Spectroscopy of SDSS-II Supernovae

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II) Supernova Survey discovered Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in an almost unexplored intermediate redshift range of $0.05 < z < 0.4$ and provided densely sampled multi-color light curves for SN…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-11 Kohki Konishi , Naoki Yasuda , Kouichi Tokita , Mamoru Doi , Yutaka Ihara , Tomoki Morokuma , Naohiro Takanashi , Jakob Nordin , John Marriner , Linda Östman , Michael Richmond , Masao Sako , Donald P. Schneider , J. Craig Wheeler

Photometric selection of Type Ia supernovae in the Supernova Legacy Survey

We present a sample of 485 photometrically identified Type Ia supernova candidates mined from the first three years of data of the CFHT SuperNova Legacy Survey (SNLS). The images were submitted to a deferred processing independent of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Bazin , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Rich , E. Aubourg , P. Astier , C. Balland , S. Basa , R. G. Carlberg , A. Conley , D. Fouchez , J. Guy , D. Hardin , I. M. Hook , D. A. Howell , R. Pain , K. Perrett , C. J. Pritchet , N. Regnault , M. Sullivan , N. Fourmanoit , S. Gonzalez-Gaitan , C. Lidman , S. Perlmutter , P. Ripoche , E. S. Walker

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

Measuring Type Ia Supernova Populations of Stretch and Color and Predicting Distance Biases

Simulations of Type Ia Supernovae (SNIa) surveys are a critical tool for correcting biases in the analysis of SNIa to infer cosmological parameters. Large scale Monte Carlo simulations include a thorough treatment of observation history,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Daniel Scolnic , Richard Kessler