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The Next Generation of Cosmological Measurements with Type Ia Supernovae

While Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are one of the most mature cosmological probes, the next era promises to be extremely exciting in the number of different ways SNe Ia are used to measure various cosmological parameters. Here we review the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-15 Dan Scolnic , Saul Perlmutter , Greg Aldering , Dillon Brout , Tamara Davis , Alex Filippenko , Ryan Foley , Renee Hlozek , Rebekah Hounsell , Saurabh Jha , David Jones , Pat Kelly , Rick Kessler , Alex Kim , David Rubin , Adam Riess , Steven Rodney , Justin Roberts-Pierel , Christopher Stubbs , Yun Wang , Jacobo Asorey , Arturo Avelino , Chetan Bavdhankar , Peter J. Brown , Anthony Challinor , Christophe Balland , Asantha Cooray , Suhail Dhawan , Georgios Dimitriadis , Cora Dvorkin , Julien Guy , Will Handley , Ryan E. Keeley , Jean-Paul Kneib , Benjamin LHuillier , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Kaisey Mandel , James Mertens , Mickael Rigault , Pavel Motloch , Suvodip Mukherjee , Gautham Narayan , Andrei Nomerotski , Lyman Page , Levon Pogosian , Giuseppe Puglisi , Marco Raveri , Nicolas Regnault , Armin Rest , Cesar Rojas-Bravo , Masao Sako , Feng Shi , Srivatsan Sridhar , Aritoki Suzuki , Yu-Dai Tsai , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Yannick Copin , Gong-Bo Zhao , Ningfeng Zhu

Union Through UNITY: Cosmology with 2,000 SNe Using a Unified Bayesian Framework

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) were instrumental in establishing the acceleration of the universe's expansion. By virtue of their combination of distance reach, precision, and prevalence, they continue to provide key cosmological constraints,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-23 David Rubin , Greg Aldering , Marc Betoule , Andy Fruchter , Xiaosheng Huang , Alex G. Kim , Chris Lidman , Eric Linder , Saul Perlmutter , Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente , Nao Suzuki

First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Constraints on Cosmological Parameters

We present the first cosmological parameter constraints using measurements of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN). The analysis uses a subsample of 207 spectroscopically confirmed SNe Ia from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-13 T. M. C. Abbott , S. Allam , P. Andersen , C. Angus , J. Asorey , A. Avelino , S. Avila , B. A. Bassett , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. Brout , P. Brown , D. L. Burke , J. Calcino , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , R. Casas , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , P. Challis , M. Childress , A. Clocchiatti , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , E. Fernandez , A. V. Filippenko , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , R. J. Foley , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , L. Galbany , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , K. Glazebrook , D. A. Goldstein , S. Gonzalez-Gaitan , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , R. R. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , J. K. Hoormann , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , E. Kasai , S. Kent , R. Kessler , A. G. Kim , R. P. Kirshner , E. Kovacs , E. Krause , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , J. Lasker , G. F. Lewis , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , M. Lima , H. Lin , E. Macaulay , M. A. G. Maia , K. S. Mandel , M. March , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , V. Miranda , J. J. Mohr , E. Morganson , D. Muthukrishna , A. Möller , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , P. Nugent , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , Y. -C. Pan , A. A. Plazas , M. Pursiainen , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , D. Scolnic , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. Sharp , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , N. E. Sommer , H. Spinka , E. Suchyta , M. Sullivan , E. Swann , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , R. C. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , B. E. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , A. R. Walker , W. Wester , P. Wiseman , R. C. Wolf , B. Yanny , B. Zhang , Y. Zhang

The expansion of the universe observed with supernovae

Over the last 20 years, supernovae have become a key tool to constrain the expansion history of the Universe through the construction of Hubble diagrams, using luminosity distances to supernovae belonging to the "Ia" subtype. This technique…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-13 Pierre Astier

Standardization of type Ia supernovae

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have been intensively investigated due to its great homogeneity and high luminosity, which make it possible to use them as standardizable candles for the determination of cosmological parameters. In 2011, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-04 Rodrigo C. V. Coelho , Maurício O. Calvão , Ribamar R. R. Reis , Beatriz B. Siffert

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

Type Ia supernova science 2010-2020

In the next decade Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) will be used to test theories predicting changes in the Dark Energy equation of state with time. Ultimately this requires a dedicated space mission like JDEM. SNe Ia are mature cosmological…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-06 D. A. Howell , A. Conley , M. Della Valle , P. E. Nugent , S. Perlmutter , G. H. Marion , K. Krisciunas , C. Badenes , P. Mazzali , G. Aldering , P. Antilogus , E. Baron , A. Becker , C. Baltay , S. Benetti , S. Blondin , D. Branch , E. F. Brown , S. Deustua , A. Ealet , R. S. Ellis , D. Fouchez , W. Freedman , A. Gal-Yam , S. Jha , D. Kasen , R. Kessler , A. G. Kim , D. C. Leonard , W. Li , M. Livio , D. Maoz , F. Mannucci , T. Matheson , J. D. Neill , K. Nomoto , N. Panagia , K. Perrett , M. Phillips , D. Poznanski , R. Quimby , A. Rest , A. Riess , M. Sako , A. M. Soderberg , L. Strolger , R. Thomas , M. Turatto , S. van Dyk , W. M. Wood-Vasey

On the Mechanism of Type Ia Supernovae

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are one of the major tools to determine the cosmological parameters. Utilizing them as distance indicators, it is possible to geometrically survey the universe. To this end, the intrinsic scatter in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. K. Roepke , W. Hillebrandt , S. I. Blinnikov

Supernova cosmology: legacy and future

The discovery of dark energy by the first generation of high-redshift supernova surveys has generated enormous interest beyond cosmology and has dramatic implications for fundamental physics. Distance measurements using supernova explosions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Ariel Goobar , Bruno Leibundgut

Towards an understanding of Type Ia supernovae from a synthesis of theory and observations

Motivated by the fact that calibrated light curves of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have become a major tool to determine the expansion history of the Universe, considerable attention has been given to, both, observations and models of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-27 W. Hillebrandt , M. Kromer , F. K. Röpke , A. J. Ruiter

Type II Supernovae as Probes of Cosmology

- Constraining the cosmological parameters and understanding Dark Energy have tremendous implications for the nature of the Universe and its physical laws. - The pervasive limit of systematic uncertainties reached by cosmography based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-19 Dovi Poznanski , Eddie Baron , Stephane Blondin , Joshua S. Bloom , Christopher B. D'Andrea , Massimo Della Valle , Luc Dessart , Richard S. Ellis , Avishay Gal-Yam , Ariel Goobar , Mario Hamuy , Malcolm Hicken , Daniel N. Kasen , Kevin L. Krisciunas , Douglas C. Leonard , Weidong Li , Mario Livio , Howie Marion , Thomas Matheson , James D. Neill , Ken'ichi Nomoto , Peter E. Nugent , Robert Quimby , Masao Sako , Mark Sullivan , Rollin C. Thomas , Massimo Turatto , Schuyler D. Van Dyk , W. Michael Wood-Vasey

Foundations of Supernova Cosmology

This is a brief sketch of the use of supernovae to measure cosmological parameters. It traces the early work, the events surrounding the discovery and verification of cosmic acceleration using SN Ia, and the efforts today to make sound…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-05 Robert P. Kirshner

The Dark Energy Survey: Cosmology Results With ~1500 New High-redshift Type Ia Supernovae Using The Full 5-year Dataset

We present cosmological constraints from the sample of Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) discovered during the full five years of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Supernova Program. In contrast to most previous cosmological samples, in which SN are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Acevedo , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , P. Armstrong , J. Asorey , S. Avila , D. Bacon , B. A. Bassett , K. Bechtol , P. H. Bernardinelli , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. Brout , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , H. Camacho , R. Camilleri , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , A. Carr , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. Crocce , T. M. Davis , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , M. Dixon , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , R. J. Foley , P. Fosalba , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , C. Frohmaier , L. Galbany , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , K. Glazebrook , O. Graur , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , N. Jeffrey , E. Kasai , L. Kelsey , S. Kent , R. Kessler , A. G. Kim , R. P. Kirshner , E. Kovacs , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , J. Lee , S. Lee , G. F. Lewis , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , H. Lin , U. Malik , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Mould , J. Muir , A. Möller , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , P. Nugent , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , Y. -C. Pan , M. Paterno , W. J. Percival , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , B. Popovic , A. Porredon , J. Prat , H. Qu , M. Raveri , M. Rodríguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , B. Rose , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , M. Schubnell , D. Scolnic , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , P. Shah , J. Allyn. Smith , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. Sullivan , N. Suntzeff , M. E. C. Swanson , B. O. Sánchez , G. Tarle , G. Taylor , D. Thomas , C. To , M. Toy , M. A. Troxel , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , M. Vincenzi , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , P. Wiseman , M. Yamamoto , F. Yuan , B. Zhang , Y. Zhang

A Critique of Supernova Data Analysis in Cosmology

Observational astronomy has shown significant growth over the last decade and has made important contributions to cosmology. A major paradigm shift in cosmology was brought about by observations of Type Ia supernovae. The notion that the…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ram Gopal Vishwakarma , Jayant V. Narlikar

Towards Precision Photometric Type Ia Supernova Cosmology with Machine Learning

The revolutionary discovery of dark energy and accelerating cosmic expansion was made with just 42 type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in 1999. Since then, large synoptic surveys, e.g., Dark Energy Survey (DES), have observed thousands more SNe Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-10 Helen Qu

Accounting for Selection Effects in Supernova Cosmology with Simulation-Based Inference and Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling

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

Cosmology with type-Ia supernovae

I review the use of type-Ia supernovae (SNe) for cosmological studies. After briefly recalling the main features of type-Ia SNe that lead to their use as cosmological probes, I briefly describe current and planned type-Ia SNe surveys, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ramon Miquel

Supernova Cosmology and the ESSENCE project

The proper usage of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as distance indicators has revolutionized cosmology, and added a new dominant component to the energy density of the Universe, dark energy. Following the discovery and confirmation era, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jesper Sollerman , Claudio Aguilera , Andy Becker , Stephane Blondin , Pete Challis , Alejandro Clocchiatti , Alex Filippenko , Ryan Foley , Peter M. Garnavich , Malcolm Hicken , Saurabh Jha , Robert Kirshner , Kevin Krisciunas , Bruno Leibundgut , Weidong Li , Thomas Matheson , Gajus Miknaitis , Armin Rest , Adam G. Riess , Maria Elena Salvo , Brian P. Schmidt , Chris Smith , Jason Spyromilio , Chris Stubbs , Nicholas B. Suntzeff , John L. Tonry , Michael Wood-Vasey , Brian Barris , Tamara Davis , Edvard Mortsell

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

Single-epoch supernova classification with deep convolutional neural networks

Supernovae Type-Ia (SNeIa) play a significant role in exploring the history of the expansion of the Universe, since they are the best-known standard candles with which we can accurately measure the distance to the objects. Finding large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-01 Akisato Kimura , Ichiro Takahashi , Masaomi Tanaka , Naoki Yasuda , Naonori Ueda , Naoki Yoshida