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Assessment of the Systematic Uncertainties in the Cosmological Analysis of the SDSS Supernovae Photometric Sample

Improvement in the precision of measurements of cosmological parameters with Type Ia Supernovae (SNIa) is expected to come from large photometrically identified (photometric) SN samples. Here we re-analyse the SDSS photometric SN sample,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Brodie Popovic , Dan Scolnic , Richard Kessler

Cosmological Constraints from Measurements of Type Ia Supernovae discovered during the first 1.5 years of the Pan-STARRS1 Survey

We present griz light curves of 146 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia Supernovae ($0.03 < z <0.65$) discovered during the first 1.5 years of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey. The Pan-STARRS1 natural photometric system is determined by a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Rest , D. Scolnic , R. J. Foley , M. E. Huber , R. Chornock , G. Narayan , J. L. Tonry , E. Berger , A. M. Soderberg , C. W. Stubbs , A. Riess , R. P. Kirshner , S. J. Smartt , E. Schlafly , S. Rodney , M. T. Botticella , D. Brout , P. Challis , I. Czekala , M. Drout , M. J. Hudson , R. Kotak , C. Leibler , R. Lunnan , G. H. Marion , M. McCrum , D. Milisavljevic , A. Pastorello , N. E. Sanders , K. Smith , E. Stafford , D. Thilker , S. Valenti , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Z. Zheng , W. S. Burgett , K. C. Chambers , L. Denneau , P. W. Draper , H. Flewelling , K. W. Hodapp , N. Kaiser , R. P. Kudritzki , E. A. Magnier , N. Metcalfe , P. A. Price , W. Sweeney , R. Wainscoat , C. Waters

Supernova Constraints and Systematic Uncertainties from the First 3 Years of the Supernova Legacy Survey

We combine high redshift Type Ia supernovae from the first 3 years of the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) with other supernova (SN) samples, primarily at lower redshifts, to form a high-quality joint sample of 472 SNe (123 low-$z$, 93 SDSS,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 A. Conley , J. Guy , M. Sullivan , N. Regnault , P. Astier , C. Balland , S. Basa , R. G. Carlberg , D. Fouchez , D. Hardin , I. M. Hook , D. A. Howell , R. Pain , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , K. M. Perrett , C. J. Pritchet , J. Rich , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , D. Balam , S. Baumont , R. S. Ellis , S. Fabbro , H. K. Fakhouri , N. Fourmanoit , S. Gonzalez-Gaitan , M. L. Graham , M. J. Hudson , E. Hsiao , T. Kronborg , C. Lidman , A. M. Mourao , J. D. Neill , S. Perlmutter , P. Ripoche , N. Suzuki , E. S. Walker

The Complete Light-curve Sample of Spectroscopically Confirmed Type Ia Supernovae from Pan-STARRS1 and Cosmological Constraints from The Combined Pantheon Sample

We present optical light curves, redshifts, and classifications for 365 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) Medium Deep Survey. We detail improvements to the PS1 SN photometry,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 D. M. Scolnic , D. O. Jones , A. Rest , Y. C. Pan , R. Chornock , R. J. Foley , M. E. Huber , R. Kessler , G. Narayan , A. G. Riess , S. Rodney , E. Berger , D. J. Brout , P. J. Challis , M. Drout , D. Finkbeiner , R. Lunnan , R. P. Kirshner , N. E. Sanders , E. Schlafly , S. Smartt , C. W. Stubbs , J. Tonry , W. M. Wood-Vasey , M. Foley , J. Hand , E. Johnson , W. S. Burgett , K. C. Chambers , P. W. Draper , K. W. Hodapp , N. Kaiser , R. P. Kudritzki , E. A. Magnier , N. Metcalfe , F. Bresolin , E. Gall , R. Kotak , M. McCrum , K. W. Smith

First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae From the Dark Energy Survey: Analysis, Systematic Uncertainties, and Validation

We present the analysis underpinning the measurement of cosmological parameters from 207 spectroscopically classified type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first three years of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN), spanning a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-04 D. Brout , D. Scolnic , R. Kessler , C. B. D'Andrea , T. M. Davis , R. R. Gupta , S. R. Hinton , A. G. Kim , J. Lasker , C. Lidman , E. Macaulay , A. Möller , R. C. Nichol , M. Sako , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , B. Zhang , P. Andersen , J. Asorey , A. Avelino , B. A. Bassett , P. Brown , J. Calcino , D. Carollo , P. Challis , M. Childress , A. Clocchiatti , A. V. Filippenko , R. J. Foley , L. Galbany , K. Glazebrook , J. K. Hoormann , E. Kasai , R. P. Kirshner , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , G. F. Lewis , K. S. Mandel , M. March , V. Miranda , E. Morganson , D. Muthukrishna , P. Nugent , A. Palmese , Y. -C. Pan , R. Sharp , N. E. Sommer , E. Swann , R. C. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , W. Wester , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Allam , J. Annis , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , E. Krause , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , R. L. C. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , Y. Zhang

Supercal: Cross-Calibration of Multiple Photometric Systems to Improve Cosmological Measurements with Type Ia Supernovae

Current cosmological analyses which use Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) observations combine SN samples to expand the redshift range beyond that of a single sample and increase the overall sample size. The inhomogeneous photometric calibration…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 D. Scolnic , S. Casertano , A. G. Riess , A. Rest , E. Schlafly , R. J. Foley , D. Finkbeiner , C. Tang , W. S. Burgett , K. C. Chambers , P. W. Draper , H. Flewelling , K. W. Hodapp , M. E. Huber , N. Kaiser , R. P. Kudritzki , E. A. Magnier , N. Metcalfe , C. W. Stubbs

The Foundation Supernova Survey: Measuring Cosmological Parameters with Supernovae from a Single Telescope

Measurements of the dark energy equation-of-state parameter, $w$, have been limited by uncertainty in the selection effects and photometric calibration of $z<0.1$ Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The Foundation Supernova Survey is designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 D. O. Jones , D. M. Scolnic , R. J. Foley , A. Rest , R. Kessler , P. M. Challis , K. C. Chambers , D. A. Coulter , K. G. Dettman , M. M. Foley , M. E. Huber , S. W. Jha , E. Johnson , C. D. Kilpatrick , R. P. Kirshner , J. Manuel , G. Narayan , Y. -C. Pan , A. G. Riess , A. S. B. Schultz , M. R. Siebert , E. Berger , R. Chornock , H. Flewelling , E. A. Magnier , S. J. Smartt , K. W. Smith , R. J. Wainscoat , C. Waters , M. Willman

An Exploration of Heterogeneity in Supernova Type Ia Samples

We examine three SNe Type Ia datasets: Union2.1, JLA and Panstarrs to check their consistency using cosmology blind statistical analyses as well as cosmological parameter fitting. We find that Panstarrs dataset is the most stable of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Ujjaini Alam , Jeremie Lasue

Measuring Dark Energy Properties with Photometrically Classified Pan-STARRS Supernovae. II. Cosmological Parameters

We use 1169 Pan-STARRS supernovae (SNe) and 195 low-$z$ ($z < 0.1$) SNe Ia to measure cosmological parameters. Though most Pan-STARRS SNe lack spectroscopic classifications, in a previous paper (I) we demonstrated that photometrically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 D. O. Jones , D. M. Scolnic , A. G. Riess , A. Rest , R. P. Kirshner , E. Berger , R. Kessler , Y. -C. Pan , R. J. Foley , R. Chornock , C. A. Ortega , P. J. Challis , W. S. Burgett , K. C. Chambers , P. W. Draper , H. Flewelling , M. E. Huber , N. Kaiser , R. -P. Kudritzki , N. Metcalfe , J. Tonry , R. J. Wainscoat , C. Waters , E. E. E. Gall , R. Kotak , M. McCrum , S. J. Smartt , K. W. Smith

First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Effects of Chromatic Corrections to Supernova Photometry on Measurements of Cosmological Parameters

Calibration uncertainties have been the leading systematic uncertainty in recent analyses using type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) to measure cosmological parameters. To improve the calibration, we present the application of Spectral Energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 J. Lasker , R. Kessler , D. Scolnic , D. Brout , C. B. D'Andrea , T. M. Davis , S. R. Hinton , A. G. Kim , C. Lidman , E. Macaulay , A. Möller , M. Sako , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , J. Asorey , B. A. Bassett , D. L. Burke , J. Calcino , D. Carollo , M. Childress , J. Frieman , J. K. Hoormann , E. Kasai , T. S. Li , M. March , E. Morganson , E. S. Rykoff , E. Swann , B. E. Tucker , W. Wester , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Allam , J. Annis , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , B. Flaugher , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , S. Kent , E. Krause , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , A. A. Plazas , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. L. Tucker , A. R. Walker

BAHAMAS: new SNIa analysis reveals inconsistencies with standard cosmology

We present results obtained by applying our BAyesian HierArchical Modeling for the Analysis of Supernova cosmology (BAHAMAS) software package to the 740 spectroscopically confirmed supernovae type Ia (SNIa) from the "Joint Light-curve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 H. Shariff , X. Jiao , R. Trotta , D. A. van Dyk

Robust and model-independent cosmological constraints from distance measurements

We present a systematic analysis of the cosmological constraints from the "Pantheon Sample" of 1048 Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) in the redshift range $0.01<z<2.3$ compiled by Scolnic et al. (2018). Applying the flux-averaging method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Zhongxu Zhai , Yun Wang

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

The Self-Calibrating Hubble Diagram

As an increasing number of well measured type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) become available, the statistical uncertainty on w has been reduced to the same size as the systematic uncertainty. The statistical error will decrease further in the near…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ulrich Feindt , Marek Kowalski , Kerstin Paech

Cosmological Parameter Uncertainties from SALT-II Type Ia Supernova Light Curve Models

We use simulated SN Ia samples, including both photometry and spectra, to perform the first direct validation of cosmology analysis using the SALT-II light curve model. This validation includes residuals from the light curve training…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-03 J. Mosher , J. Guy , R. Kessler , P. Astier , J. Marriner , M. Betoule , M. Sako , P. El-Hage , R. Biswas , R. Pain , S. Kuhlmann , N. Regnault , J. A. Frieman , D. P. Schneider

Amalgame: Cosmological Constraints from the First Combined Photometric Supernova Sample

Future constraints of cosmological parameters from Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) will depend on the use of photometric samples, those samples without spectroscopic measurements of the SNe Ia. There is a growing number of analyses that show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-12 Brodie Popovic , Daniel Scolnic , Maria Vincenzi , Mark Sullivan , Dillon Brout , Bruno O. Sanchez , Rebecca Chen , Utsav Patel , Erik R. Peterson , Richard Kessler , Lisa Kelsey , Ava Claire Bailey , Phil Wiseman , Marcus Toy

A Reassessment of the Pantheon+ and DES 5YR Calibration Uncertainties: Dovekie

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are crucial tools to measure the accelerating expansion of the universe, comprising thousands of SNe across multiple telescopes. Accurate measurements of cosmological parameters with SNe Ia require a robust…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-09 B. Popovic , W. D. Kenworthy , M. Ginolin , A. Goobar , P. Shah , B. M. Boyd , A. Do , D. Brout , D. Scolnic , M. Vincenzi , S. Dhawan , D. O. Jones , M. Smith , M. Rigault , B. Racine , E. E. Hayes , R. Chen , P. Wiseman , L. Galbany , M. Grayling , L. LaCroix , C. Barjou-Delayre , D. Kuhn , C. Lemon

Measuring the Properties of Dark Energy with Photometrically Classified Pan-STARRS Supernovae. I. Systematic Uncertainty from Core-Collapse Supernova Contamination

The Pan-STARRS (PS1) Medium Deep Survey discovered over 5,000 likely supernovae (SNe) but obtained spectral classifications for just 10% of its SN candidates. We measured spectroscopic host galaxy redshifts for 3,147 of these likely SNe and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 D. O. Jones , D. M. Scolnic , A. G. Riess , R. Kessler , A. Rest , R. P. Kirshner , E. Berger , C. A. Ortega , R. J. Foley , R. Chornock , P. J. Challis , W. S. Burgett , K. C. Chambers , P. W. Draper , H. Flewelling , M. E. Huber , N. Kaiser , R. -P. Kudritzki , N. Metcalfe , R. J. Wainscoat , C. Waters

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

Exploring the Impact of Systematic Bias in Type Ia Supernova Cosmology Across Diverse Dark Energy Parametrizations

We investigate the impact of instrumental and astrophysical systematics on dark energy constraints derived from Type~Ia supernova (SN-Ia) observations. Using simulated datasets consistent with current SN-Ia measurements, we explore how…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Drishti Sharma , Purba Mukherjee , Anjan A Sen , Suhail Dhawan