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In this paper we compare the performances of the chi-square and median likelihood analysis in the determination of cosmological constraints using type Ia supernovae data. We perform a statistical analysis using the 307 supernovae of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-16 A. Barreira , P. P. Avelino

We use the redshift Hubble parameter $H(z)$ data derived from relative galaxy ages, distant type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) peak, and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) shift parameter data, to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Tian Lan , Yan Gong , Hao-Yi Wan , Tong-Jie Zhang

We present novel cosmological constraints based on a joint analysis of our HII galaxies (HIIG) Hubble relation with the full Planck Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy spectrum and the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) probes. The HII…

Inferring the values and uncertainties of cosmological parameters in a cosmology model is of paramount importance for modern cosmic observations. In this paper, we use the simulation-based inference (SBI) approach to estimate cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-02 Moonzarin Reza , Yuanyuan Zhang , Brian Nord , Jason Poh , Aleksandra Ciprijanovic , Louis Strigari

Supernova cosmology without spectroscopic confirmation is an exciting new frontier which we address here with the Bayesian Estimation Applied to Multiple Species (BEAMS) algorithm and the full three years of data from the Sloan Digital Sky…

We use multi-band imagery data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to measure projected distances of 302 supernova type Ia (SNIa) from the centre of their host galaxies, normalized to the galaxy's brightness scale length, with a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-02 R. Hill , H. Shariff , R. Trotta , S. Ali-Khan , X. Jiao , Y. Liu , S. K. Moon , W. Parker , M. Paulus , D. A. van Dyk , L. B. Lucy

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are considered the most reliable \textit{standard candles} and they have played an invaluable role in cosmology since the discovery of the Universe's accelerated expansion. During the last decades, the SNe Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-12 Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Giada Bargiacchi , Malgorzata Bogdan , Salvatore Capozziello , Shigehiro Nagataki

Type Ia supernovae (SNae Ia), standardisable candles that allow tracing the expansion history of the Universe, are instrumental in constraining cosmological parameters, particularly dark energy. State-of-the-art likelihood-based analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-14 Konstantin Karchev , Roberto Trotta , Christoph Weniger

We present the cosmological analysis of 752 photometrically-classified Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) obtained from the full Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II) Supernova (SN) Survey, supplemented with host-galaxy spectroscopy from the…

Simulation-based inference (SBI) has become an important tool in cosmology for extracting additional information from observational data using simulations. However, all cosmological simulations are approximations of the actual universe, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Sébastien Pierre , Bruno Régaldo-Saint Blancard , ChangHoon Hahn , Michael Eickenberg

We use the new SNe Ia discovered by the SDSS-II Supernova Survey together with additional supernova datasets as well as observations of the cosmic microwave background and baryon acoustic oscillations to constrain cosmological models. This…

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

We re-examine the contentious question of constraints on anisotropic expansion from Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) in the light of a novel determination of peculiar velocities, which are crucial to test isotropy with supernovae out to distances…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 W. Rahman , R. Trotta , S. S. Boruah , M. J. Hudson , D. A. van Dyk

We present cosmological constraints from a cosmic shear analysis of the fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000), doubling the survey area with nine-band optical and near-infrared photometry with respect to previous KiDS…

For future surveys, spectroscopic follow-up for all supernovae will be extremely difficult. However, one can use light curve fitters, to obtain the probability that an object is a Type Ia. One may consider applying a probability cut to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-24 Michelle Lochner , Bruce A. Bassett , Melvin Varughese , Renée Hlozek , Martin Kunz , Mat Smith , James Newling

We use the Radial Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (RBAO) measurements, distant type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), the observational $H(z)$ data (OHD) and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) shift parameter data to constrain cosmological parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Zhong-Xu Zhai , Hao-Yi Wan , Tong-Jie Zhang

SNe Ia have been used to provide key constraints on the equation-of-state parameter of dark energy. They are generally standardized under the assumption that they belong to a single population, with luminosities standardized in a continuous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 David Rubin , Taylor Hoyt , Greg Aldering , Saul Perlmutter

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

In order to obtain robust cosmological constraints from Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) data, we have applied Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to SN Ia lightcurve fitting. We develop a method for sampling the resultant probability density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-19 Mi Dai , Yun Wang