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Fuzzy Supernova Templates II: Parameter Estimation

Wide field surveys will soon be discovering Type Ia supernovae (SNe) at rates of several thousand per year. Spectroscopic follow-up can only scratch the surface for such enormous samples, so these extensive data sets will only be useful to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Steven A. Rodney , John L. Tonry

Type Ia supernova parameter estimation: a comparison of two approaches using current datasets

By using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) first year type Ia supernova (SN Ia) compilation, we compare two different approaches (traditional \chi^2 and complete likelihood) to determine parameter constraints when the magnitude dispersion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. L. Lago , M. O. Calvão , S. E. Jorás , R. R. R. Reis , I. Waga , R. Giostri

The first Hubble diagram and cosmological constraints using superluminous supernova

We present the first Hubble diagram of superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) out to a redshift of two, together with constraints on the matter density, $\Omega_{\rm M}$, and the dark energy equation-of-state parameter, $w(\equiv p/\rho)$. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-12 C. Inserra , M. Sullivan , C. R. Angus , E. Macaulay , R. C. Nichol , M. Smith , C. Frohmaier , C. P. Gutiérrez , M. Vicenzi , A. Möller , D. Brout , P. J. Brown , T. M. Davis , C. B. D'Andrea , L. Galbany , R. Kessler , A. G. Kim , Y. -C. Pan , M. Pursiainen , D. Scolnic , B. P. Thomas , P. Wiseman , T. M. C. Abbott , J. Annis , S. Avila , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , T. F. Eifler , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , Y. Zhang , J. Asorey , J. Calcino , D. Carollo , K. Glazebrook , S. R. Hinton , J. K. Hoormann , G. F. Lewis , R. Sharp , E. Swann , B. E. Tucker

Cosmology Requirements on Supernova Photometric Redshift Systematics for Rubin LSST and Roman Space Telescope

Some million Type Ia supernovae (SN) will be discovered and monitored during upcoming wide area time domain surveys such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). For cosmological use, accurate redshifts are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-26 Ayan Mitra , Eric V. Linder

Analytic Photometric Redshift Estimator for Type Ia Supernovae From the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

Accurate and precise photometric redshifts (photo-z's) of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) can enable the use of SNe Ia, measured only with photometry, to probe cosmology. This dramatically increases the science return of supernova surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yun Wang , E. Gjergo , S. Kuhlmann

Photometric selection of Type Ia supernovae in the Supernova Legacy Survey

We present a sample of 485 photometrically identified Type Ia supernova candidates mined from the first three years of data of the CFHT SuperNova Legacy Survey (SNLS). The images were submitted to a deferred processing independent of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Bazin , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Rich , E. Aubourg , P. Astier , C. Balland , S. Basa , R. G. Carlberg , A. Conley , D. Fouchez , J. Guy , D. Hardin , I. M. Hook , D. A. Howell , R. Pain , K. Perrett , C. J. Pritchet , N. Regnault , M. Sullivan , N. Fourmanoit , S. Gonzalez-Gaitan , C. Lidman , S. Perlmutter , P. Ripoche , E. S. Walker

The Carnegie Supernova Project: First Near-Infrared Hubble Diagram to z~0.7

The Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) is designed to measure the luminosity distance for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as a function of redshift, and to set observational constraints on the dark energy contribution to the total energy content…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-25 Wendy L. Freedman , Christopher R. Burns , M. M. Phillips , Pamela Wyatt , S. E. Persson , Barry F. Madore , Carlos Contreras , Gaston Folatelli , E. Sergio Gonzalez , Mario Hamuy , Eric Hsiao , Daniel D. Kelson , Nidia Morrell , D. C. Murphy , Miguel Roth , Maximilian Stritzinger , Laura Sturch , Nick B. Suntzeff , P. Astier , C. Balland , Bruce Bassett , Luis Boldt , R. G. Carlberg , Alexander J. Conley , Joshua A. Frieman , Peter M. Garnavich , J. Guy , D. Hardin , D. Andrew Howell , Richard Kessler , Hubert Lampeitl , John Marriner , R. Pain , Kathy Perrett , N. Regnault , Adam G. Riess , Masao Sako , Donald P. Schneider , Mark Sullivan , Michael Wood-Vasey

The ANDICAM-SOFI Near-infrared and Optical type Ia Supernova (ASNOS) sample: Description and data release

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) provide the most robust means of measuring extragalactic distances. While most of the effort has focused on increasing the number of SNe Ia observed in the optical, near-infrared (NIR) observations remain scarce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Kim Phan , Lluís Galbany , Tomás E. Müller-Bravo , Subhash Bose , Christopher R. Burns , Maximilian D. Stritzinger , Camilla T. G. Sørensen , Chris Ashall , Francisco J. Castander , Cristina Jiménez Palau , Joel Johansson , Joseph P. Anderson , Ken. C. Chambers , Mariusz Gromadzki , Priscila J. Pessi , Ting-Wan Chen

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

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Cosmological Biases from Host Galaxy Mismatch of Type Ia Supernovae

Redshift measurements, primarily obtained from host galaxies, are essential for inferring cosmological parameters from type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Matching SNe to host galaxies using images is non-trivial, resulting in a subset of SNe with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-26 H. Qu , M. Sako , M. Vincenzi , C. Sanchez , D. Brout , R. Kessler , R. Chen , T. Davis , L. Galbany , L. Kelsey , J. Lee , C. Lidman , B. Popovic , B. Rose , D. Scolnic , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , P. Wiseman , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , O. Alves , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernandez , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagon , M. Raveri , E. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , N. Weaverdyck , DES Collaboration

Real-time Analysis and Selection Biases in the Supernova Legacy Survey

The Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) has produced a high-quality, homogeneous sample of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) out to redshifts greater than z=1. In its first four years of full operation (to June 2007), the SNLS discovered more than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 K. Perrett , D. Balam , M. Sullivan , C. Pritchet , A. Conley , R. Carlberg , P. Astier , C. Balland , S. Basa , D. Fouchez , J. Guy , D. Hardin , I. M. Hook , D. A. Howell , R. Pain , N. Regnault

Type Ia Supernova Distances at z > 1.5 from the Hubble Space Telescope Multi-Cycle Treasury Programs: The Early Expansion Rate

We present an analysis of 15 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at redshift z > 1 (9 at 1.5 < z < 2.3) recently discovered in the CANDELS and CLASH Multi-Cycle Treasury programs using WFC3 on the Hubble Space Telescope. We combine these SNe Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Adam G. Riess , Steven A. Rodney , Daniel M. Scolnic , Daniel L. Shafer , Louis-Gregory Strolger , Henry C. Ferguson , Marc Postman , Or Graur , Dan Maoz , Saurabh W. Jha , Bahram Mobasher , Stefano Casertano , Brian Hayden , Alberto Molino , Jens Hjorth , Peter M. Garnavich , David O. Jones , Robert P. Kirshner , Anton M. Koekemoer , Norman A. Grogin , Gabriel Brammer , Shoubaneh Hemmati , Mark Dickinson , Peter M. Challis , Schuyler Wolff , Kelsey I. Clubb , Alexei V. Filippenko , Hooshang Nayyeri , U Vivian , David C. Koo , Sandra M. Faber , Dale Kocevski , Larry Bradley , Dan Coe

A Measurement of the Rate of type-Ia Supernovae at Redshift $z\approx$ 0.1 from the First Season of the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

We present a measurement of the rate of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first of three seasons of data from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey. For this measurement, we include 17 SNe Ia at redshift $z\le0.12$. Assuming a flat cosmology with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Benjamin Dilday , R. Kessler , J. A. Frieman , J. Holtzman , J. Marriner , G. Miknaitis , R. C. Nichol , R. Romani , M. Sako , B. Bassett , A. Becker , D. Cinabro , F. DeJongh , D. L. Depoy , M. Doi , P. M. Garnavich , C. J. Hogan , S. Jha , K. Konishi , H. Lampeitl , J. L. Marshall , D. McGinnis , J. L. Prieto , A. G. Riess , M. W. Richmond , D. P. Schneider , M. Smith , N. Takanashi , K. Tokita , K. van der Heyden , N. Yasuda , C. Zheng , J. Barentine , H. Brewington , C. Choi , A. Crotts , J. Dembicky , M. Harvanek , M. Im , W. Ketzeback , S. J. Kleinman , J. Krzesiński , D. C. Long , E. Malanushenko , V. Malanushenko , R. J. McMillan , A. Nitta , K. Pan , G. Saurage , S. A. Snedden , S. Watters , J. C. Wheeler , D. York

Measurements of the Rate of Type Ia Supernovae at Redshift z < ~0.3 from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

We present a measurement of the volumetric Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) rate based on data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II) Supernova Survey. The adopted sample of supernovae (SNe) includes 516 SNe Ia at redshift z \lesssim 0.3,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-07 Benjamin Dilday , Mathew Smith , Bruce Bassett , Andrew Becker , Ralf Bender , Francisco Castander , David Cinabro , Alexei V. Filippenko , Joshua A. Frieman , Lluis Galbany , Peter M. Garnavich , Ariel Goobar , Ulrich Hopp , Yutaka Ihara , Saurabh W. Jha , Richard Kessler , Hubert Lampeitl , John Marriner , Ramon Miquel , Mercedes Molla , Robert C. Nichol , Jakob Nordin , Adam G. Riess , Masao Sako , Donald P. Schneider , Jesper Sollerman , J. Craig Wheeler , Linda Ostman , Dmitry Bizyaev , Howard Brewington , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Dan Oravetz , Kaike Pan , Audrey Simmons , Stephanie Snedden

Reduced uncertainties up to 43\% on the Hubble constant and the matter density with the SNe Ia with a new statistical analysis

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

Photometric Estimates of Redshifts and Distance Moduli for Type Ia Supernovae

Large planned photometric surveys will discover hundreds of thousands of supernovae (SNe), outstripping the resources available for spectroscopic follow-up and necessitating the development of purely photometric methods to exploit these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Richard Kessler , David Cinabro , Bruce Bassett , Benjamin Dilday , Joshua A. Frieman , Peter M. Garnavich , Saurabh Jha , John Marriner , Robert C. Nichol , Masao Sako , Mathew Smith , Joseph P. Bernstein , Dmitry Bizyaev , Ariel Goobar , Stephen Kuhlmann , Donald P. Schneider , Maximilian Stritzinger

First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae From the Dark Energy Survey: Photometric Pipeline and Light Curve Data Release

We present griz light curves of 251 Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first 3 years of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program's (DES-SN) spectroscopically classified sample. The photometric pipeline described in this paper produces the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-04 D. Brout , M. Sako , D. Scolnic , R. Kessler , C. B. D'Andrea , T. M. Davis , S. R. Hinton , A. G. Kim , J. Lasker , E. Macaulay , A. Möller , R. C. Nichol , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , R. C. Wolf , S. Allam , B. A. Bassett , P. Brown , F. J. Castander , M. Childress , R. J. Foley , L. Galbany , K. Herner , E. Kasai , M. March , E. Morganson , P. Nugent , Y. -C. Pan , R. C. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , W. Wester , T. M. C. Abbott , J. Annis , S. Avila , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. A. Goldstein , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , R. Miquel , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , A. R. Walker , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang

Probing Systematic Bias in Low-Redshift Type Ia Supernova Measurements by Cross Analyzing Surface Brightness and Hubble Residuals

For low-redshift (z < 0.1) Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) samples used in several cosmological analyses over the past decade, we probe for systematic bias by looking for correlations between surface brightness (SB) measurements and Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 H. Solak , R. Kessler , D. O. Jones

Optical Cross Correlation Filters: An Economical Approach for Identifying SNe Ia and Estimating their Redshifts

Large photometric surveys of transient phenomena, such as Pan-STARRS and LSST, will locate thousands to millions of type Ia supernova candidates per year, a rate prohibitive for acquiring spectroscopy to determine each candidate's type and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 D. M. Scolnic , A. G. Riess , M. E. Huber , A. Rest , C. Stubbs , J. L. Tonry

Exploring the Systematic Uncertainties of Type Ia Supernovae as Cosmological Probes

We explore the systematic uncertainties of using Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as cosmological probes, using the Supernova Legacy Survey Three Year data (SNLS3). We focus on studying the possible evolution of the stretch-luminosity parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-07 Shuang Wang , Yun Wang