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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

The peculiar velocities of supernovae and their host galaxies are correlated with the large-scale structure of the Universe, and can be used to constrain the growth rate of structure and test the cosmological model. In this work, we measure…

The standard analysis for type Ia supernovae uses a set of templates to overcome the intrinsic variation of the supernova light curves with wavelength. This paper shows that standard templates contain an anomaly in that the width of the…

General Physics · Physics 2016-06-02 David F. Crawford

We present a semi-supervised method for photometric supernova typing. Our approach is to first use the nonlinear dimension reduction technique diffusion map to detect structure in a database of supernova light curves and subsequently employ…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Joseph W. Richards , Darren Homrighausen , Peter E. Freeman , Chad M. Schafer , Dovi Poznanski

We show empirically that fits to the color-magnitude relation of Type Ia supernovae after optical maximum can provide accurate relative extragalactic distances. We report the discovery of an empirical color relation for Type Ia light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lifan Wang , Gerson Goldhaber , Greg Aldering , Saul Perlmutter

We test the cosmological implications of a varying absolute magnitude of Type Ia supernovae using the Pantheon compilation, by reconstructing different phenomenological approaches that could justify a varying absolute magnitude, but also…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Domenico Sapone , Savvas Nesseris , Carlos A. P. Bengaly

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

We analyze a set of 89 Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) that have both optical and near-infrared (NIR) photometry to derive distances and construct low redshift ($z < 0.04$) Hubble diagrams. We construct mean light curve (LC) templates using a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Arturo Avelino , Andrew S. Friedman , Kaisey S. Mandel , David O. Jones , Peter J. Challis , Robert P. Kirshner

A variation of the relative content of (54Fe+58Ni) versus 56Ni may be responsible for the observed scatter of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) about a mean relation between their intrinsic brightness and the shape of their light curve. Synthetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo A. Mazzali , Philipp Podsiadlowski

We present the largest and most homogeneous collection of near-infrared (NIR) spectra of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia): 339 spectra of 98 individual SNe obtained as part of the Carnegie Supernova Project-II. These spectra, obtained with the…

The peculiar motions of galaxies are powerful cosmological probes that trace the growth of structures and the distribution of matter in the universe, providing a means to investigate the nature of dark energy and test gravity on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Ujjwal Upadhyay , Tarun Deep Saini , Shiv K. Sethi

Using the Hubble Space Telescope ACS imaging of the GOODS North and South fields during Cycles 11, 12, and 13, we derive empirical constraints on the delay-time distribution function for type Ia supernovae. We extend our previous analysis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Louis-Gregory Strolger , Tomas Dahlen , Adam G. Riess

We discuss the possibility to identify anisotropic and/or inhomogeneous cosmological models using type Ia supernova data. A search for correlations in current type Ia peak magnitudes over a large range of angular scales yields a null…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Michael Blomqvist , Edvard Mortsell , Serena Nobili

Empirically, Type Ia supernovae are the most useful, precise, and mature tools for determining astronomical distances. Acting as calibrated candles they revealed the presence of dark energy and are being used to measure its properties.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-15 D. Andrew Howell

A Monte Carlo code (ARTIS) for modelling time-dependent three-dimensional spectral synthesis in chemically inhomogeneous models of Type Ia supernova ejecta is presented. Following the propagation of gamma-ray photons, emitted by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 M. Kromer , S. A. Sim

The abundance stratification in the ejecta of the normal Type Ia supernova 2002bo is derived by fitting a series of spectra obtained at close time intervals. A Monte Carlo code, modified to include abundance stratification, is used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Stehle , P. A. Mazzali , S. Benetti , W. Hillebrandt

Type Ia supernova data have recently become strong enough to enable, for the first time, constraints on the time variation of the dark energy density and its equation of state. Most analyses, however, are using simple two or three-parameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Dragan Huterer , Asantha Cooray

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

We study supernova (SN) classification using the machine learning method of the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) in the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope Ultra-Deep Field (CSST-UDF) photometric survey, and explore the improvement of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Minglin Wang , Yan Gong , Dejia Zhou , Xuelei Chen

We present the results of a novel new search of the first data-release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR1) for the spectra of supernovae. The use of large spectroscopic galaxy surveys offers the prospect of obtaining improved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Darren S. Madgwick , Paul Hewett , Daniel Mortlock , Lifan Wang