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Detection of Unresolved Strongly Lensed Supernovae with 7-Dimensional Telescope

Gravitationally lensed supernovae (glSNe) are a powerful tool for exploring the realms of astronomy and cosmology. Time-delay measurements and lens modeling of glSNe can provide a robust and independent method for constraining the expansion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-25 Elahe Khalouei , Arman Shafieloo , Alex G. Kim , Ryan E. Keeley , William Sheu , Gregory S. H. Paek , Myungshin Im , Xiaosheng Huang , Hyung Mok Lee

DES13S2cmm: The First Superluminous Supernova from the Dark Energy Survey

We present DES13S2cmm, the first spectroscopically-confirmed superluminous supernova (SLSN) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We briefly discuss the data and search algorithm used to find this event in the first year of DES operations, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Papadopoulos , C. B. D'Andrea , M. Sullivan , R. C. Nichol , K. Barbary , R. Biswas , P. J. Brown , R. A. Covarrubias , D. A. Finley , J. A. Fischer , R. J. Foley , D. Goldstein , R. R. Gupta , R. Kessler , E. Kovacs , S. E. Kuhlmann , C. Lidman , M. March , P. E. Nugent , M. Sako , R. C. Smith , H. Spinka , W. Wester , T. M. C. Abbott , F. Abdalla , S. S. Allam , M. Banerji , J. P. Bernstein , R. A. Bernstein , A. Carnero , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , T. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , J. A. Frieman , D. Gerdes , D. Gruen , K. Honscheid , D. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , J. L. Marshall , K. W. Merritt , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , N. A. Roe , A. K. Romer , E. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , B. X. Santiago , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla , M. Soares- Santos , E. Suchyta , M. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. L. Tucker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Zuntz

Studying Type II supernovae as cosmological standard candles using the Dark Energy Survey

Despite vast improvements in the measurement of the cosmological parameters, the nature of dark energy and an accurate value of the Hubble constant (H$_0$) in the Hubble-Lema\^itre law remain unknown. To break the current impasse, it is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 T. de Jaeger , L. Galbany , S. González-Gaitán , R. Kessler , A. V. Filippenko , F. Förster , M. Hamuy , P. J. Brown , T. M. Davis , C. P. Gutiérrez , C. Inserra , G F. Lewis , A. Möller , D. Scolnic , M. Smith , D. Brout , D. Carollo , R. J. Foley , K. Glazebrook , S. R. Hinton , E. Macaulay , B. Nichol , M. Sako , N. E. Sommer , B. E. Tucker , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , S. Avila , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , S. Everett , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , R. Wilkinson

The Observable Supernova Rate in Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing Systems with the TESS Satellite

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is the latest observational effort to find exoplanets and map bright transient optical phenomena. Supernovae (SN) are particularly interesting as cosmological standard candles for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 B. W. Holwerda , S. Knabel , R. C. Steele , L. Strolger , J. Kielkopf , A. Jacques , W. Roemer

Euclid -- The Dark Universe detective

Euclid is a recently launched medium-class mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) designed to measure cosmological parameters, test the cosmological standard model, and explore the nature of dark matter and dark energy. To this end,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-03 L. Linke

The Hubble Higher-Z Supernova Search: Supernovae to z=1.6 and Constraints on Type Ia Progenitor Models

We present results from the Hubble Higher-z Supernova Search, the first space-based open field survey for supernovae (SNe). In cooperation with the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, we have used the Hubble Space Telescope with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. -G. Strolger , A. G. Riess , T. Dahlen , M. Livio , N. Panagia , P. Challis , J. L. Tonry , A. V. Filippenko , R. Chornock , H. Ferguson , A. Koekemoer , B. Mobasher , M. Dickinson , M. Giavalisco , S. Casertano , R. Hook , S. Blondin , B. Leibundgut , M. Nonino , P. Rosati , H. Spinrad , C. C. Steidel , D. Stern , P. M. Garnavich , T. Matheson , N. Grogin , A. Hornschemeier , C. Kretchmer , V. G. Laidler , K. Lee , R. Lucas , D. de Mello , L. A. Moustakas , S. Ravindranath , M. Richardson , E. Taylor

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

Cosmological Prediction of the CSST Ultra Deep Field Type Ia Supernova Photometric Survey

Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) as a standard candle is an ideal tool to measure cosmic distance and expansion history of the Universe. Here we investigate the SN Ia photometric measurement in the China Space Station Telescope Ultra Deep Field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-24 Minglin Wang , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Haitao Miao , Xuelei Chen , Hu Zhan

The Euclid mission design

Euclid is a space-based optical/near-infrared survey mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) to investigate the nature of dark energy, dark matter and gravity by observing the geometry of the Universe and on the formation of structures…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Giuseppe D Racca , Rene Laureijs , Luca Stagnaro , Jean Christophe Salvignol , Jose Lorenzo Alvarez , Gonzalo Saavedra Criado , Luis Gaspar Venancio , Alex Short , Paolo Strada , Tobias Boenke , Cyril Colombo , Adriano Calvi , Elena Maiorano , Osvaldo Piersanti , Sylvain Prezelus , Pierluigi Rosato , Jacques Pinel , Hans Rozemeijer , Valentina Lesna , Paolo Musi , Marco Sias , Alberto Anselmi , Vincent Cazaubiel , Ludovic Vaillon , Yannick Mellier , Jerome Amiaux , Michel Berthe , Marc Sauvage , Ruyman Azzollini , Mark Cropper , Sabrina Pottinger , Knud Jahnke , Anne Ealet , Thierry Maciaszek , Fabio Pasian , Andrea Zacchei , Roberto Scaramella , John Hoar , Ralf Kohley , Roland Vavrek , Andreas Rudolph , Micha Schmidt

The Type I Superluminous Supernova Catalog I: Light Curve Properties, Models, and Catalog Description

We present the most comprehensive catalog to date of Type I Superluminous Supernovae (SLSNe), a class of stripped envelope supernovae (SNe) characterized by exceptionally high luminosities. We have compiled a sample of 262 SLSNe reported…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-12 Sebastian Gomez , Matt Nicholl , Edo Berger , Peter K. Blanchard , V. Ashley Villar , Sofia Rest , Griffin Hosseinzadeh , Aysha Aamer , Yukta Ajay , Wasundara Athukoralalage , David C. Coulter , Tarraneh Eftekhari , Achille Fiore , Noah Franz , Ori Fox , Alexander Gagliano , Daichi Hiramatsu , D. Andrew Howell , Brian Hsu , Mitchell Karmen , Matthew R. Siebert , Réka Könyves-Tóth , Harsh Kumar , Curtis McCully , Craig Pellegrino , Justin Pierel , Armin Rest , Qinan Wang

Superluminous supernovae

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are a population of supernovae (SNe) whose peak luminosities are much larger than those of canonical SNe. Although SLSNe were simply defined by their peak luminosity at first, it is currently recognized that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-19 Takashi J. Moriya

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

Verifying the Cosmological Utility of Type Ia Supernovae: Implications of a Dispersion in the Ultraviolet Spectra

We analyze the mean rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) spectrum of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) and its dispersion using high signal-to-noise Keck-I/LRIS-B spectroscopy for a sample of 36 events at intermediate redshift (z=0.5) discovered by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-04 R. S. Ellis , M. Sullivan , P. E. Nugent , D. A. Howell , A. Gal-Yam , P. Astier , D. Balam , C. Balland , S. Basa , R. G. Carlberg , A. Conley , D. Fouchez , J. Guy , D. Hardin , I. Hook , R. Pain , K. Perrett , C. J. Pritchet , N. Regnault

Two Type Ia Supernovae at Redshift ~2 : Improved Classification and Redshift Determination with Medium-band Infrared Imaging

We present two supernovae (SNe) discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS), an HST multi-cycle treasury program. We classify both objects as Type Ia SNe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Steven A. Rodney , Adam G. Riess , Daniel M. Scolnic , David O. Jones , Shoubaneh Hemmati , Alberto Molino , Curtis McCully , Bahram Mobasher , Louis-Gregory Strolger , Or Graur , Brian Hayden , Stefano Casertano

The Fall 2004 SDSS Supernova Survey

In preparation for the Supernova Survey of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) II, a proposed 3-year extension to the SDSS, we have conducted an early engineering and science run during the fall of 2004, which consisted of approximately 20…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masao Sako , Roger Romani , Josh Frieman , Jen Adelman-McCarthy , Andrew Becker , Fritz DeJongh , Ben Dilday , Juan Estrada , John Hendry , Jon Holtzman , Jared Kaplan , Rick Kessler , Hubert Lampeitl , John Marriner , Gajus Miknaitis , Adam Riess , Douglas Tucker , J. Barentine , R. Blandford , H. Brewington , J. Dembicky , M. Harvanek , S. Hawley , C. Hogan , D. Johnston , S. Kahn , B. Ketzeback , S. Kleinman , J. Krzesinski , D. Lamenti , D. Long , R. McMillan , P. Newman , A. Nitta , R. Nichol , R. Scranton , E. Sheldon , S. Snedden , C. Stoughton , D. York , the SDSS Collaboration

Forecast of strongly lensed supernovae rates in the China Space Station Telescope surveys

Strong gravitationally lensed supernovae (SNe) are a powerful probe for cosmology and stellar physics. The relative time delays between lensed SN images provide an independent way of measuring a fundamental cosmological parameter -- the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 Jiang Dong , Yiping Shu , Guoliang Li , Xinzhong Er , Bin Hu , Youhua Xu

A statistical approach to identify superluminous supernovae and probe their diversity

We investigate the identification of hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe I) using a photometric analysis, without including an arbitrary magnitude threshold. We assemble a homogeneous sample of previously classified SLSNe I from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 C. Inserra , S. Prajs , C. P. Gutierrez , C. Angus , M. Smith , M. Sullivan

Forecast of cosmological constraints with superluminous supernovae from the Chinese Space Station Telescope

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are a class of intense celestial events that can be standardized for measuring cosmological parameters, bridging the gap between type Ia supernovae and the cosmic microwave background. In this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-01 Xuan-Dong Jia , Jian-Ping Hu , Fa-Yin Wang , Zi-Gao Dai

Analyzing the Largest Spectroscopic Dataset of Hydrogen-Poor Super-Luminous Supernovae

Super-luminous supernovae (SLSNe) are tremendously luminous explosions whose power sources and progenitors are highly debated. Broad-lined SNe Ic (SNe Ic-bl) are the only type of SNe that are connected with long-duration gamma ray bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 Yu-Qian Liu , Maryam Modjaz , Federica B. Bianco

The Type I Superluminous Supernova Catalogue II: Spectroscopic Evolution in the Photospheric Phase, Velocity Measurements, and Constraints on Diversity

Hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are among the most energetic explosions in the universe, reaching luminosities up to 100 times greater than those of normal supernovae. Detailed spectral analysis hold the potential to reveal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 Aysha Aamer , Matt Nicholl , Sebastian Gomez , Edo Berger , Peter Blanchard , Joseph P. Anderson , Charlotte Angus , Amar Aryan , Chris Ashall , Ting-Wan Chen , Georgios Dimitriadis , Lluis Galbany , Anamaria Gkini , Mariusz Gromadzki , Claudia P. Gutierrez , Daichi Hiramatsu , Griffin Hosseinzadeh , Cosimo Inserra , Amit Kumar , Hanindyo Kuncarayakti , Giorgos Leloudas , Paolo Mazzali , Kyle Medler , Tomás E. Müller-Bravo , Mauricio Ramirez , Aiswarya Sankar. K , Steve Schulze , Avinash Singh , Jesper Sollerman , Shubham Srivastav , Jacco H. Terwel , David R. Young